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Bizen Ware
The pottery of Imbe in Bizen City. No glaze is used, and effects such as hidasuki and goma are brought out by the way straw and ash strike the clay. One of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan.
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Bizen Ware Traditional Industry Hall
The traditional industry hall in Bizen. It displays unglazed, high-fired stoneware vessels.
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Okayama Prefectural Bizen Ceramics Museum
The ceramics museum in Bizen. It collects and preserves Bizen ware.
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Imbe Kiln Cluster
The kilns of Imbe, Bizen. Climbing kilns are clustered in a town lined with chimneys.
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Mushiake Ware
Mushiake ware of Setouchi. Tea ceremony ware with a pale glaze is fired here.
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Sakazu Ware
Sakazu ware of Kurashiki. It follows in the line of the mingei folk craft movement.
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Kurashiki Hariko
The hariko of Kurashiki. Folk toys made by pasting layers of paper over a mold.
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Kurashiki Glass
The glass of Kurashiki. Blown glass begun by Kodani Shinzo, it was praised by the mingei folk craft movement.
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Kurashiki Canvas
The canvas of Kurashiki. A thickly woven cotton cloth, it was originally used for ships' sails.
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Kojima Denim
The denim of Kojima, Kurashiki. The birthplace of Japanese-made jeans, it has everything from dyeing to sewing.
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Kojima School Uniforms
The school uniforms of Kojima, Kurashiki. Most of Japan's school uniforms are made in this place.
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Sakushu Kasuri
Sakushu kasuri of Tsuyama. Yarn is dyed with indigo and woven into kasuri patterns.
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Tsuyama Hakuaishi Paper
The hakuaishi of Tsuyama. A thin paper for interleaving gold and silver leaf is made here.
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Natsukawa Uchiwa Fans
The Natsukawa fans of Okayama. A poem is worked into the paper as a watermark.
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Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
The bamboo craft of Katsuyama, Maniwa. Madake bamboo is split and made into baskets.
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Gobara Lacquerware and Mimasaka Lacquer
The Gobara lacquerware of Mimasaka. Lacquer is applied to a base of horse chestnut wood.