The connection between maker and owner I love product catalogues. When I was a kid I spent hours flipping thro…
Like many vegetables enjoyed in Japan today, naga negi traveled to Japan from China by way of the Korean penin…
Levitation is among the miraculous feats ascribed to a child prince who lived more than a 1,400 years ago and …
Walk in to any supermarket in Japan in January and you’ll find compact wedges and bulbous whole heads of HAKUS…
Uesugi Yozan was a very young leader with a very big problem. When the ninth daimyo of the Yonezawa Domain (mo…
As part of a larger effort to make Japan’s cultural properties more available for study and enjoyment, t…
No doubt you’ve seen this iconic image of a huge wave that seems about to crash on Mt. Fuji. You probabl…
Beginning with Japan’s industrialization in the late 19th century, the paper industry and related companies co…
Senna Misawa didn’t originally intend on becoming an Edo Kiriko craftsman. Unlike most artisans in Japan, she …
When Yuki Sakamoto joined Horiguchi Kiriko in 2017 at the age of 18, he was at the time Japan’s youngest Edo K…
