Browse 15 crafts and stories rooted in Iwate — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.
Nanbu senbei are thin, round wheat-flour wafers pressed between hot iron molds, a food born in the cold…
A vermilion urushi sake cup crowned with Hidehira-nuri's signature gold-leaf clouds, carrying the golden aesthetic of Hiraizumi's 12th-century…
Kokuji-yaki is Iwate's northernmost kiln, firing amber-and-white ame-glaze stoneware since the 1810s. Its katakuchi spouted bowl pours sauces,…
Iwayado Tansu joins keyaki zelkova wood, kijiro lacquer, and hand-forged Nanbu iron hardware in a chest born in…
Iwate's Nambu ironware isn't only kettles. A cast iron furin rings with a clear, lingering summer tone born…
Where to buy a Nambu Tekki cast iron teapot from Iwate — an enamel-lined kyusu built to brew…
Jōbōji-nuri is Iwate's plain, undecorated lacquerware from Ninohe, finished in Japan's finest domestic urushi. This guide covers where…
A rustic black-forged santoku from Iwate, where Nambu iron and the ancient Mokusa sword smiths shaped centuries of…
Iwachu's Nambu Tekki cast iron skillet is sand-cast in Morioka, Iwate, heir to a 400-year domain ironcasting tradition.…
Iwayado Tansu pairs honey-toned zelkova and lacquer with hand-forged iron hardware, a chest-making craft born in the Oshu…
Nanbu Tekki iron casts more than kettles: its furin wind chime rings with a clear, lingering tone straight…
Iwate's homespun weavers card, spin, and hand-loom pure wool into soft, lightweight tweed scarves. A Tohoku craft born…
Nambu Tekki cast iron tetsubin from Morioka, Iwate carries four centuries of Tohoku ironworking. We line up the…
Iwate's 12th-century Hiraizumi lacquer tradition: gold-leaf kumo and hishigata patterns on Joboji urushi, hand-applied in Ichinoseki workshops.
Oigen (及源), founded 1852 in Mizusawa (Iwate Prefecture), is one of the largest producers of Nambu tetsubin (南部鉄器)…
