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Kagoshima

Spirit of Kagoshima

Where Kagoshima craft is born.

Browse 12 crafts and stories rooted in Kagoshima — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Kagoshima

12 items

Japanese Craft

Turned from Yakusugi, the ancient cedar of Yakushima's UNESCO forest, this tea caddy carries thousand-year growth rings and…

Japanese Sweets

Deep in the warm, sun-soaked south of Kyushu, Kagoshima has quietly become one of Japan's largest tea-growing regions,…

Japanese Craft

A hand-cut comb of dense Satsuma boxwood, seasoned for years in camellia oil. Antistatic, gentle on hair, and…

Japanese Craft

From Kagoshima's Kawanabe altar workshops comes a gold makie kogo — a small lidded lacquer incense container in…

Japanese Craft

Satsuma Kiriko whisky rocks glass: a thick iro-kise colored overlay cut by hand so each facet fades through…

Japanese Craft

Hand-finished chopsticks turned from Yakusugi, the ancient cedar of Yakushima island. Tight, resin-rich grain from trees that grew…

Japanese Craft

Hand-finished pure-tin tumblers from Kagoshima's Satsuma Suzuki tradition. Tin's high conductivity chills beer and highballs fast and is…

Japanese Craft

Forged on the island where Japan's first matchlock guns were made in 1543, Tanegashima nigiri-basami carry 480 years…

Japanese Craft

Honba Oshima Tsumugi is one of Japan's three great silk tsumugi, hand-woven on Amami Oshima and colored by…

Japanese Craft

Oshima Tsumugi is one of the world's most labor-intensive silk weaves, dyed in Amami's iron-rich mud and woven…

Ceramics & Pottery

Shiro-Satsuma's ivory crackle glaze, born under the Shimazu domain, once charmed Meiji export buyers. Here's where to buy…

Glass

Authentic Shimazu-direct Satsuma Kiriko sake cup. The luxury Kagoshima cut-glass tradition founded in 1851 by Lord Shimazu Nariakira,…