Interviews

nucca: Warm Colors from a Hasami Ware Kiln

We visited Yamashita Toen in Hasami, Nagasaki, a kiln that makes everything in-house, to hear how its love of making led to nucca, pottery in 12 colors kneaded into the clay.

Beret is flamingo: Pure Wool Berets from Kumamoto

We visited the Kumamoto factory of Beret is flamingo, Japan's leading beret maker, to follow the many hands and steps that go into a single 100% wool beret.

HIZEN5: Glass Pens from Five Pottery Towns in Saga

We visited three kilns behind HIZEN5, a brand uniting the pottery towns of Saga, to see how Arita, Ureshino and Imari traditions shape their porcelain-handled glass pens.

Kamezaki Senko: Hand-Dyed Fishing Flags from Kagoshima

We visited Kamezaki Senko, a dye works founded in 1869 in Ichikikushikino, Kagoshima, to learn how its fifth-generation dyer keeps hand-dyed fishing flags alive in a changing world.

Mimatsu Kogei: The Beauty of Wood Grain, from Saga

Among the rice fields of Kanzaki, Saga, Mimatsu Kogei went from making furniture parts to order to creating its own brands, M.SCOOP, NENRIN and GREEN, that bring out the character of every piece of...