Yamagata

Spirit of Yamagata

Where Yamagata craft is born.

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

All crafts from Yamagata

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Japanese Craft

Yamagata Imono is one of Japan's two great cast-iron traditions, born of Heian-era war and prized for paper-thin…

Japanese Craft

Hirashimizu-yaki from Yamagata City fires local iron-rich clay into a nashiji 'pear-skin' celadon, its dark speckles surfacing through…

Japanese Craft

Yonezawa-ori silk neckties carry the dyed-silk weaving the Uesugi domain nurtured in snowbound Yamagata. Here is how to…

Japanese Craft

Yamagata Imono spans 950 years of refined cast iron. Kikuchi Hojudo's thin-wall tetsubin softens tap water with a…