Okayama

Spirit of Okayama

Where Okayama craft is born.

Browse 11 crafts and stories rooted in Okayama — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Okayama

11 items

Japanese Craft

From Kurashiki's Kojima district, the birthplace of Japanese jeans, comes a heavyweight selvedge denim tote woven on vintage…

Japanese Craft

A hand-forged nakiri vegetable knife from Okayama's Osafune, the ancient Bizen-den swordmaking heartland whose smiths turned from blades…

Ceramics & Pottery

From Okayama's Imbe village, one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, this unglazed wood-fired Bizen guinomi carries scarlet hidasuki…

Ceramics & Pottery

One of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, Bizen ware is unglazed, wood-fired stoneware whose porous body keeps water fresh…

Japanese Craft

Hand-woven from highland madake bamboo in Maniwa, Okayama, the Katsuyama Takezaiku zaru is a sturdy kitchen draining colander…

Japanese Craft

Bitchu Washi is Okayama's mountain paper, hand-couched from kozo with Takahashi River water—this letter set pairs old paper-mulberry…

Japanese Craft

Forged in Osafune, Okayama—Japan's greatest sword town since the Kamakura era—this miniature katana letter opener brings centuries of…

Japanese Craft

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

Ceramics & Pottery

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 & Pottery

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