Koshu lacquered deer leather (called Koshu inden in Japanese) is a unique style of leather craft that was developed in the city of Kofu, Yamanashi prefecture. Today, a wide range of buckskin bags, wallets and pouches made with urushi…

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Gifu Chochin is a lantern produced in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture. The lantern has a history of longer than three hundred years and the high level of the technique used to make it was valued so highly that the lantern was designated as one of the t…

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Koshu Tebori Insho refers to hand-engraved personal signature stamps produced in the Yamanashi Prefecture cities of Kofu and Fujiyoshida. Bringing together all of Yamanashi’s engravers, dealers, and material producers, this local industry is unlik…

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