Yamaguchi

Spirit of Yamaguchi

Where Yamaguchi craft is born.

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

All crafts from Yamaguchi

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Japanese Craft

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

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