ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Toyama Glass Studio
Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.
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ToyamaArt & CraftsToyama
Etchu Washi
Three papermaking districts designated together; at Yatsuo the paper itself is stencil-dyed.
ToyamaArt & CraftsTakaoka
Takaoka Bronze Casting
Ninety percent of Japan's bronzeware; begun when the Kaga domain summoned seven casters, now casting contemporary design.
ToyamaArt & CraftsTakaoka
Takaoka Lacquerware
Known for aogai - shell shaved paper-thin and inlaid, shifting through the spectrum as the light moves.
Takaoka
Etchu Fukuoka Sedge Hats
Most of Japan's sedge hats are made here, from growing the sedge to the final stitch.
ToyamaArt & CraftsNanto
Inami Woodcarving
Taught by Kyoto carvers who came to rebuild the temple; the street is still lined with workshops using 200 kinds of chisel.
Tonami
Shogawa Turned Woodwork
Turning begun with timber floated down the river; the blanks it makes go to lacquer towns across Japan.
Takaoka
Takaoka Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, metalsmith, lacquerer and gilder each take a part - the town's whole craft in one object.
Nanto
Paper and Hemp of Fukumitsu
Paper from Gokayama kozo and hemp cloth woven in the hills - work for the months the snow shut everyone in.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Yuzen
More realist than Kyoto yuzen - it even paints the holes insects left in leaves - and built on five set colours.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Gold Leaf
Ninety-nine percent of Japan's gold leaf, beaten to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre - the gilding of Kinkakuji and Nikko alike.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Lacquerware
Begun when the domain imported Edo lacquerers; its raised maki-e uses gold without restraint.
Kanazawa
Kaga Inlay
Gold and silver hammered into cut iron, a technique born on armour and now turned to jewellery.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNomi
Kutani Ware
Five overglaze colours covering the surface entirely; the kiln died out once, and each revival changed its style.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Yamanaka Lacquerware
Held to have Japan's finest woodturning: blanks cut with the grain, then scored on the lathe in hairline rings.
IshikawaArt & CraftsWajima
Wajima Lacquerware
Powdered diatomaceous earth in the ground coat and 124 divided steps make it the toughest lacquer in Japan.
IshikawaArt & CraftsSuzu
Agehama Salt Making
Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll
A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Mizuhiki
Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.
FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
Echizen
Echizen Blades
Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.
Echizen
Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.