Join us on a journey to explore the time-honored craft of tenugui making. Learn about stencil carving, traditional chusen dyeing, and the careful attention to detail that transforms plain cloth into ...

Under the new system, visitors from around the world are welcome inside the masters’ studios to observe their work — a rare privilege in Japan’s relatively veiled traditional crafts industry.

ISEHARA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Every Japanese over a certain age can fondly recall playing with an ”Oyama koma” spinning top during their childhood. But now the simple traditional wooden ...

An embodiment of modern Japanese pop culture meets the traditional crafts in this unabashedly fun exhibition. In roughly 80 works, all created for this event, of 20 artisans imagine what might ...