Akita

Spirit of Akita

Where Akita craft is born.

Browse 4 crafts and stories rooted in Akita — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Akita

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Japanese Craft

Openwork lace twisted from hair-thin pure silver wire, rooted in the Satake clan's Edo-era silver mines. A look…

Japanese Craft

Shiraiwa-yaki is Akita's oldest ceramic, born in 1771 under the Satake clan's Kubota domain. Its signature namako-yu glaze…

Japanese Craft

From the samurai town of Kakunodate in Akita, kabazaiku wraps polished wild cherry bark around a tea caddy…

Japanese Craft

Ōdate magewappa (大館曲げわっぱ) is the **hand-bent cedar tradition** of Ōdate, in northern Akita Prefecture — splitting boards of…