Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
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Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
Three thousand paper streamers, each shopping street spending a year making its own.