Browse 18 crafts and stories rooted in Shiga — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.
Asamiya is a small tea district in the hills of Shigaraki, in the southern corner of Shiga Prefecture,…
A wood-fired Shigaraki-yaki matcha chawan from Shiga, one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns. Coarse local clay, natural ash-glaze…
Omi-Jofu is Shiga's nationally designated ramie textile, hand-woven along the Aichi River east of Lake Biwa. This airy…
Shigaraki ware is one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, fired in the Shiga hills where Emperor Shomu once…
Omi Jofu is Shiga's flagship ramie textile—crisp hand-twisted hemp with crepe shibo texture and indigo kasuri, woven near…
The Shigaraki-yaki tanuki is Japan's most recognizable good-luck figurine, hand-shaped from iron-rich Shiga clay at one of the…
Woven on the soft water of Lake Biwa, Takashima Chijimi is Japan's foremost crepe cotton — its high-twist…
Omi Jofu is a ramie-and-hemp summer cloth woven on the humid eastern shore of Lake Biwa and carried…
Omi-jofu is Shiga's METI-designated ramie linen, woven along Lake Biwa's humid east shore and spread nationwide by the…
A hand-forged gyuto chef's knife from Shiga's Kunitomo, once one of Japan's two great matchlock-gun forges. The same…
Hikone's altar metalworkers have shaped brass kazari fittings since the Ii clan era. This solid-brass koro incense burner…
A Shiga lacquer accessory box built with the same maki-e, gold-leaf, and metal-fitting trades that made Hikone's altar…
A bare tochi-wood bowl from Higashi-Omi, cradle of Japan's kijishi woodturners since Prince Koretaka's age—spun on the rokuro…
A hand-finished Japanese folding fan built on Takashima senkotsu, the Shiga fan ribs that account for most of…
From one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns, the Shigaraki tanuki is a hand-built ceramic raccoon dog placed at…
Omi Jofu is Shiga's ramie linen, woven near Lake Biwa where humid air keeps the bast threads supple.…
A ramie fukin from Shiga's Echi River valley, home of Omi Jofu, one of Japan's great summer hemp…
Shigaraki-yaki (信楽焼) is the **stoneware tradition of Shigaraki**, in southern Shiga Prefecture — one of the **Six Old…
