Yamaguchi

Spirit of Yamaguchi

Where Yamaguchi craft is born.

Browse 8 crafts and stories rooted in Yamaguchi — selected for international buyers and shipped directly to the U.S.

All crafts from Yamaguchi

8 items

Japanese Craft

Yamaguchi's Ouchi-nuri lacquer carries the gold autumn-grass and lozenge crest of the medieval Ouchi court. Here is where…

Japanese Craft

A cast iron furin wind chime from Hagi, Yamaguchi—heir to the castle town's tatara and reverberatory-furnace ironworking, prized…

Japanese Craft

Turned-wood folk dolls finished in vermilion Ouchi-nuri lacquer, Ouchi ningyo were born when the Ouchi clan made Yamaguchi…

Japanese Craft

Yanai-jima is the yarn-dyed striped cotton of Yamaguchi's old port town of Yanai, home to the goldfish-lantern tradition.…

Ceramics & Pottery

Hagi-yaki, the Mori clan's domain pottery founded by Korean potters in 1604, shapes matcha bowls whose soft, porous…

Japanese Craft

From Yamaguchi, once the 'Kyoto of the West,' Ouchi-nuri lacquer dolls pair a vermilion ground with gold autumn…

Japanese Craft

A fine-grained inkstone quarried near Shimonoseki and prized by calligraphers since the Kamakura era, the Akama suzuri completes…

Ceramics & Pottery

Hagi-yaki (萩焼) is the **tea-ceremony pottery of Hagi**, in northern Yamaguchi Prefecture — practiced continuously since 1604 when…