Okayama

Spirit of Okayama

Where Okayama craft is born.

Browse 4 crafts and stories rooted in Okayama — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Okayama

4 items

Japanese Craft

Okayama's Bizen Osafune was Japan's greatest sword-forging center for centuries. Today its smiths still hammer that tamahagane lineage…

Japanese Craft

A wood-fired, glaze-free Bizen stoneware tumbler from Okayama's Inbe village. Its microscopically rough surface breaks beer into a…

Japanese Craft

Woven on vintage low-tension shuttle looms in Okayama's old cotton port of Kurashiki, Baistone hanpu canvas makes a…

Ceramics

Bizen-yaki (備前焼) is the **unglazed reduction-fired stoneware tradition of Bizen, in southeastern Okayama Prefecture** — one of the…