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Iwachu Ironware Museum
A museum attached to a Nanbu ironware factory. Visitors can see the process from casting mold to finished iron kettle.
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Suzuki Morihisa Workshop
A Nanbu ironware workshop in Morioka. Founded in 1625, it has passed down metal-casting techniques from generation to generation.
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OIGEN Factory Shop
A Nanbu ironware maker in Mizusawa, Oshu. A direct-sales shop is attached to the factory.
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Oigen Foundry Casting Technology
A foundry in Oshu. It makes ironware using its pouring and heat-treatment techniques.
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Iwayado Tansu Production Cooperative
The cooperative for Iwayado tansu chests. Nanbu iron fittings are hammered onto a zelkova wood body.
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Iwayado Tansu Fujisato Woodworks
A woodworking shop making Iwayado tansu chests. It combines joinery, lacquering and metal fittings.
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Hidehira-nuri Lacquerware Ochiya
Hidehira-nuri lacquerware from Hiraizumi. It is characterized by the Genji-gumo cloud pattern, in which diamond shapes of gold leaf are set on the lacquer.
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Joboji Lacquer Industry
Lacquer sap is tapped at Joboji in Ninohe. Most of the domestic lacquer used to restore National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties comes from here.
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Michinoku Akane-kai Homespun
Homespun from Morioka. Wool is spun by hand and woven by hand. It began after the war as work for women.
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Nihon Homespun
A homespun maker in Iwate. It handles everything from dyeing to weaving.
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Kokuji Ware Pottery Garden
Pottery in Kuji. It fires Kokuji ware, which is coated with an amber-colored glaze, and visitors can try making pottery.
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Hanamaki Dolls and Hanamaki Kokeshi
Folk toys of Hanamaki. Clay dolls and kokeshi are made. Hanamaki dolls began in the Edo period under the influence of Kyoto's Fushimi dolls.
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Tono Furusato Village Straw Craft
Straw craft in Tono. Visitors can try weaving items such as the horse-shaped Chagu Chagu Umakko.
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Nishiwaga Town Akebi Vine Craft
Akebi vine craft from Nishiwaga. Vines gathered in the mountains are woven into baskets.
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Iwate Kuzumaki Wine
Wild grape wine from Kuzumaki. The town started it as a third-sector, public-private enterprise.
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Sekinoichi Sake Brewery and Iwate Kura Beer
A sake brewery in Ichinoseki. It makes both sake and craft beer, and opens its brewery buildings to visitors.
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Asabiraki Showa Asahi-gura Brewery
A sake brewery in Morioka. You can tour a brewing storehouse completed in 1988, where brewing tools remain.
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Nanbu Bijin
A sake brewery in Ninohe. It went overseas early, and exports account for a high share of its sales.
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Baeren Brewery
A craft beer brewery in Morioka. It began by taking over old equipment from Germany.
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Iwate Agricultural Research Center
The prefecture's agricultural research institute. It breeds varieties of paddy rice and upland crops.
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Iwate Prefectural Forestry Technology Center
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It deals with the cultivation of Japanese red pine and Japanese larch.
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Iwate Prefectural Fisheries Technology Center
The prefecture's fisheries research institute. It deals with stock enhancement and aquaculture, and with techniques for wakame seaweed and abalone.