↑Click images to jump to the slideshow. Silk Fabric, Traditional Craft Forms series no.78 Takeshi Katsuyama, a producer of Nishijin Weaving, is stickler for domestically-produced silk Kimonos. He grows original species’ silkworms and makes mulberry fields for feeding. He is also particular about handmade process: spinning threads from cocoons, weaving using with high looms. In [...]

↑Click the image to jump to the slideshow. Teapot, Traditional Craft Forms series no.79, AXIS April (vol.138) Yamada Jozan IV. Tokoname.

↑Click the image, jump to the slideshow. Real Ukiyo-e printing is seen in itself depth and thickness. Ukiyo-e is not flat tone, it is like a vertical gradation in a thickness of the handmade Japanese paper that makes the print deep tone. Sharaku: The actor Otani Oniji III as Edobei Hokusai: Red Fuji Hiroshige: Jumantsubo [...]

Click above picture to jump to the slideshow. Mountain Tea, Traditional Craft Forms series no. 81. Look the photograph before reading this caption. What do you think semi-farming tea shrubs in the steep slope of the rocky mountain? This is a species of wild tea which grows from seed which differs from ordinary tea farms. [...]

↑Click the image to jump to the slideshow. Seals, Traditional Craft Forms no.83, AXIS(December 2009 vol.142) Kei Koizumi of Koizumi Konando PHONE：075-231-1293 　FAX：075-231-3667

↑Click the image to jump to the slideshow. Prop shafts, Traditional Craft Forms series no.82, AXIS Oct.2009. Photographed skilled turners of Kishiro Co. Ltd.operating a gigantic lathe to make prop shafts for large ships.

AXIS(vol.130)Master’s work(Traditional craft form) Pipe) Organ Over 4,000 pipes are lined up in hiding behind big bass pipes. Miyazaki Prefectural Art Centre Hiroshi Sudo, Sudo Organbau

AXIS(vol.136)Masters’ Work: Racing Saddle Reported on Somes Saddle, the only horse-riding gear company in Japan.