Browse 25 crafts and stories rooted in Yamagata — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.
Noshiume is a paper-thin sheet of ume plum pressed with sugar and agar, cut into strips and sandwiched…
Born from the Mamigasaki River's molding sand nearly 900 years ago, Yamagata Imono's thin-cast iron sukiyaki nabe sears,…
Tendo in Yamagata makes most of Japan's shogi pieces, a craft born among Oda-clan samurai. A guide to…
Woven from shina-tree bast fiber in Yamagata's Sekigawa village, Uetsu Shinafu ranks among Japan's three oldest cloths—a durable,…
Tendo in Yamagata carves roughly 95% of Japan's shogi pieces, a craft born from samurai side-work in the…
Hirashimizu-yaki from Yamagata City fires the iron-flecked clay of Mt. Chitose into the signature 'zangetsu' lingering-snow glaze. This…
Hirashimizu-yaki from Yamagata City fires local iron-rich Chitoseyama clay into a 'remaining snow' celadon, where dark mineral spots…
Tendo in Yamagata carves about 95% of Japan's shogi pieces. A guide to authentic Tendo Shogi Koma sets…
Hirashimizu-yaki tea bowls from Yamagata are glazed with zansha, a 'remaining-snow' effect where iron in the local Mt.…
Hirashimizu-yaki fires iron-rich clay from Mt. Chitose into a creamy 'lingering snow' glaze. A quiet mingei mug from…
Yamagata Imono is one of Japan's oldest casting traditions, born on the Mamigasaki River in 1057. This cast…
Yonezawa-ori is Yamagata's samurai-domain silk, revived by reformer Uesugi Yozan and dyed with the prefecture's prized safflower. A…
Tendo in Yamagata carves roughly 95% of Japan's shogi pieces, a craft born when impoverished samurai took up…
Yonezawa-ori is the silk that saved a bankrupt domain. Woven in Yamagata and colored with Mogami safflower (benibana),…
Hirashimizu-yaki from Yamagata City fires a pear-skin 'nashi-seiji' celadon found nowhere else. This guide covers the kiln's iron-flecked…
Yonezawa-ori is the silk woven in Yamagata's old Uesugi castle town, dyed with benibana safflower along the Mogami…
A hand-lacquered owan from Yamagata's butsudan-and-maki-e workshops, where Mogami River merchants carried Kyoto and Aizu techniques inland. Deep…
Tendo produces most of Japan's shogi pieces. These boxwood koma, their kanji inked or carved in lacquer, descend…
Yamagata Imono casters have refined thin-wall iron since the 11th century. This enamel-lined cast iron teapot, with an…
Yamagata's Miyama Washi is a thick, durable handmade paper born under the Yonezawa Uesugi domain. This postcard set…
A hand-forged vegetable knife from Yamagata, where a Kyoto swordsmith settled in the 1400s and seeded six centuries…
Yamagata Imono is one of Japan's two great cast-iron traditions, born of Heian-era war and prized for paper-thin…
Hirashimizu-yaki from Yamagata City fires local iron-rich clay into a nashiji 'pear-skin' celadon, its dark speckles surfacing through…
Yonezawa-ori silk neckties carry the dyed-silk weaving the Uesugi domain nurtured in snowbound Yamagata. Here is how to…
Yamagata Imono spans 950 years of refined cast iron. Kikuchi Hojudo's thin-wall tetsubin softens tap water with a…
