Nagano

Spirit of Nagano

Where Nagano craft is born.

Browse 7 crafts and stories rooted in Nagano — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Nagano

7 items

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Forged in Nagano's Shinshu blade district, the single-bevel nata is a laminated carbon-steel hatchet built for splitting kindling,…

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Woven in Nagano's old Sanada castle town of Ueda, this striped saki-zome silk coin purse carries one of…

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Uchiyama-gami is snow-bleached kozo washi from Iiyama in Nagano's deep snow country, handmade for over 300 years for…

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Hand-cut from dense minebari hardwood in Nagano's Kiso valley, the Oroku-gushi is a fine-tooth comb perfected along the…

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A wooden rice tub turned from Kiso cypress, the protected timber of Japan's central highlands. Its bare grain…

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A single-piece Kiso hinoki cutting board brings Owari-domain cypress into the kitchen — light, water-shedding, gentle on knife…

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Kiso-shikki (木曽漆器) is the **lacquerware tradition of the Kiso valley**, in southwestern Nagano Prefecture — practiced continuously since…