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Shizuoka

Spirit of Shizuoka

Where Shizuoka craft is born.

Browse 12 crafts and stories rooted in Shizuoka — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Shizuoka

12 items

Japanese Craft

Enshu cotton stripe has been woven by the Tenryu River since Tokugawa times. Where to buy an authentic…

Japanese Sweets

Shizuoka has been the beating heart of Japanese green tea for centuries, and no style is more closely…

Japanese Craft

Suruga Takesensuji Zaiku is Shizuoka's round-rod bamboo craft from Ieyasu's Sunpu capital — hand-bored cylindrical bamboo splints joined…

Japanese Craft

Suruga Sashimono is Shizuoka's nail-less joinery craft, born from master carpenters who gathered to rebuild Sengen Shrine. This…

Japanese Craft

A cast brass bunchin paperweight from Shizuoka, the Sunpu castle town where Tokugawa Ieyasu commissioned Japan's earliest cast…

Japanese Craft

Suruga Hariko is Shizuoka's hand-layered washi papier-mâché craft from old Sunpu. This guide covers the inu-hariko dog charm,…

Japanese Craft

Shimada in Shizuoka once forged blades for the Imagawa and Takeda; today its smiths hand-forge petty knives. Where…

Japanese Craft

Shizuoka has been Japan's leading geta producer since its Sunpu castle-town days, finishing paulownia sandals in glossy Suruga…

Japanese Craft

One of Japan's three great chusen dyeing towns, Hamamatsu pours dye through stencils to color Enshu cotton on…

Japanese Craft

Suruga Sashimono is nail-free joinery woodwork born in Sumpu, where Tokugawa Ieyasu gathered master carpenters. This kiri (paulownia)…

Ceramics & Pottery

Fired in Kanaya since the 1500s, Shitoro-yaki is one of Kobori Enshu's Seven Kilns. Its iron-glazed stoneware makes…

Bamboo

Suruga take-sensuji-zaiku (駿河竹千筋細工) is the **fine bamboo basketry tradition of Shizuoka City** — practiced since the early 19th…