Browse 11 crafts and stories rooted in Shizuoka — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.
Shizuoka has been the beating heart of Japanese green tea for centuries, and no style is more closely…
Suruga Takesensuji Zaiku is Shizuoka's round-rod bamboo craft from Ieyasu's Sunpu capital — hand-bored cylindrical bamboo splints joined…
Suruga Sashimono is Shizuoka's nail-less joinery craft, born from master carpenters who gathered to rebuild Sengen Shrine. This…
A cast brass bunchin paperweight from Shizuoka, the Sunpu castle town where Tokugawa Ieyasu commissioned Japan's earliest cast…
Suruga Hariko is Shizuoka's hand-layered washi papier-mâché craft from old Sunpu. This guide covers the inu-hariko dog charm,…
Shimada in Shizuoka once forged blades for the Imagawa and Takeda; today its smiths hand-forge petty knives. Where…
Shizuoka has been Japan's leading geta producer since its Sunpu castle-town days, finishing paulownia sandals in glossy Suruga…
One of Japan's three great chusen dyeing towns, Hamamatsu pours dye through stencils to color Enshu cotton on…
Suruga Sashimono is nail-free joinery woodwork born in Sumpu, where Tokugawa Ieyasu gathered master carpenters. This kiri (paulownia)…
Fired in Kanaya since the 1500s, Shitoro-yaki is one of Kobori Enshu's Seven Kilns. Its iron-glazed stoneware makes…
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…
