When organic chemist Takayuki Honda visited Okinawa Island in southern Japan a few years ago, he purchased a small dish coated with the glossy vermilion lacquer that’s characteristic of the region.

Searching all of Japan for handcrafted items that express its heart and soul, our proprietor, KASHIYUKA, presents ...

Artisans at Tohoku Kogei Co., a Japanese lacquerware producer based in Sendai’s Aoba Ward, coated each helmet with Japanese lacquer and dye. Tamamushinuri is believed to have been developed for ...

Creating lacquerware involves more than 100 processes ... Asaichi-dori street, one of Japan’s largest morning markets, was engulfed in fire following the earthquake. It is estimated that ...

We follow UK-born Suzanne Ross - a lacquerware artisan in Wajima - in her efforts to recover after this January's quake, and meet Chinese Tomoe Setsubai who runs a Japanese confectionery in Yokohama.