ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Bamboo Basketry
Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.
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ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Lacquerware
Begun when Ieyasu gathered craftsmen at his retirement capital, and carried from vessels into furniture.
Hamamatsu
Enshu Textiles
One of Japan's three great cotton districts, where mills deliberately keep old shuttle looms to weave a slower, thicker cloth.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShimada
Shitoro Ware
One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Kakegawa Kuzufu Cloth
Fibre fermented out of kudzu vine and woven into a silk-like cloth, once used for sliding doors and wall covering.
Fujieda
Kilns and Dyeing of Fujieda
Kiln sites scattered along a river whose clay fed them, and whose water fed the dye houses too.
Shizuoka
Woodwork of Shizuoka
Craftsmen gathered to build the shrine and stayed; the woodworking line runs from altars to furniture to model kits.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Instrument Making of Hamamatsu
It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.