Their strength lies in patience and the ancestral skills they bring to the workbench every day, working in the spirit of ...

such as lacquerware woodturning and Takigahara-yaki pottery making. Satoyama Jujo (translating to “10 stories of a mountain village”) is deep in Japan’s snow country. Here, people have long ...

It is a treasure from nature,” says fourth-generation lacquer maker Takuya Tsutsumi. He’s on a mission to revive the ancient craft in Japan. Since taking over his 116-year-old family business ...

there are artists whose families have been making traditional Japanese lacquer work for generations. Lacquer is an artistic process that starts with the resin of the native urushi tree which is ...