KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
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KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami
Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Village
The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.
Kagoshima
Metalwork of Satsuma
Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
White Satsuma
Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Ryukyu Bingata
Stencilled paste resist with pigment rubbed in - a meeting of Chinese, Southeast Asian and Japanese dyeing, in colours built for southern light.
Naha
Shuri Textiles
Woven for the royal house; one of its weaves could be worn only by the queen and princesses.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Ryukyu Lacquerware
Its tsuikin technique - lacquer kneaded with pigment and applied like clay - exists nowhere else; the court ran the workshops.
OkinawaArt & CraftsYomitan
Yomitanzan Ware and the Pottery Village
Potters left Naha for this village over smoke restrictions; a Living National Treasure built the first kiln, and nineteen studios are now gathered here, with shared climbing kilns and more.
Yomitan
Yomitanzan Hanaui
Geometric flowers raised by floating threads; the craft died out and was reconstructed in 1964 from old cloth and older memories.
OkinawaArt & CraftsŌgimi
Kijoka Banana Fibre Cloth
The village grows the plants, strips the fibre, splits it, spins and weaves - two hundred stems for a single bolt of cloth.
OkinawaArt & CraftsItoman
Ryukyu Glass
It began with melting down bottles the US military threw away; the bubbles the impurities caused were kept as the point.
Miyakojima
Miyako Jofu Ramie Cloth
Ramie split by fingernail into thread finer than hair, woven and then beaten with mallets to a sheen; over a year for one bolt.
Kumejima
Kumejima Tsumugi
One person carries the whole process from silkworm to finished cloth, dyeing with island plants and fixing in mud.
OkinawaArt & CraftsIshigaki
Yaeyama Minsa
Five dots and four, read as a pun meaning 'for ever and ever' - the pattern a woman wove into a sash for the man she chose.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Arayachi and Jouyachi
Storage jars are left unglazed and tableware glazed - the use deciding the firing, with nothing in between.
OkinawaArt & CraftsItoman
Sabani Boats
Planks sewn together with cord and bamboo pegs; because it can be re-sewn when it splits, it went far out to sea.
OkinawaArt & CraftsYomitan
Jiro Kinjo and Okinawan Mingei
Known for fish and shrimp cut in line; found by the mingei leaders, he became Okinawa's first Living National Treasure.