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406 items in Gunma

Gunma

A round zelkova plate from Gunma's Joshu highlands, finished in fuki-urushi (wiped lacquer) so the wood grain glows…

Gunma

A hand-forged Japanese mulberry sickle (kama) from Gunma's silk country, where Tomioka's mills and mulberry fields shaped a…

Gunma

Jishoji-yaki is a small Edo-era folk kiln in Gunma's Agatsuma highlands. Its ash- and iron-glazed katakuchi pourer is…

Gunma

Usaburo Kokeshi has lathe-turned sosaku wooden dolls in Gunma's Haruna foothills since 1950. Where to find authentic hand-painted…

Gunma

Kiryu in Gunma has woven silk since antiquity and still anchors Japan's necktie trade. A jacquard-woven Kiryu-ori tie…

Gunma

Takasaki Daruma is Gunma's iconic papier-mâché wishing doll, born at Shorinzan Daruma-ji temple in the late Edo period…