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Two centuries of raising copper vessels - spout and body from a single sheet, without a join.
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Gyokusendo Co., Ltd. (GYOKUSENDO Co., Ltd.) is one of Japan's metalworking companies. Among the metalworking businesses of Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture, famous as a local industry in Japan, it is the only long-established company that has passed down for about 210 years the traditional technique of "tsuiki copperware," in which copperware is made by hammering a single copper sheet into shape. Gyokusendo is the only company in the world with the technique of applying a wide variety of colours to copper. It makes the world's highest-quality copperware and has customers around the world.
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Founded / opened：1816 Highlights / collection：Hammered copper teapot, Forming by drawing from a single sheet of copper Genre：Metalwork
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