Kumamoto

Spirit of Kumamoto

Where Kumamoto craft is born.

Browse 5 crafts and stories rooted in Kumamoto — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Kumamoto

5 items

Japanese Craft

Shodai-yaki is one of Kyushu's oldest folk kilns, founded around 1632 under Kumamoto's Hosokawa lords. This yunomi shows…

Japanese Craft

Higo Zogan inlays pure gold and silver into rust-blackened iron, a samurai-era damascening craft from Kumamoto. This pendant…

Japanese Craft

A Shodai-yaki guinomi from northern Kumamoto: nagashi-gake straw-ash streaks poured over an iron-dark stoneware body, the rustic Higo…

Japanese Craft

Higo Zogan is Kumamoto's Edo-period craft of inlaying gold and silver into blackened iron, a discipline born from…

Ceramics

Shōdai-yaki (小代焼) is the **reduction-fired stoneware tradition of Arao** in northwestern Kumamoto Prefecture — practiced continuously since 1632…