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Japanese craft

Index Japanese craft

in Japan has a long tradition and history. [1]

152 relations: Agate, Ainu people, Ando Cloisonné Company, Art of Europe, Artisan, Bachiru, Bambooworking, Basket weaving, Bizen ware, Blue and white pottery, Brocade, Buddhism, Calligraphy, Ceramic glaze, Chaki, Champlevé, Children's Day (Japan), Cloisonné, Cotton, Craft, Crystal, Cultural Property (Japan), Daimyō, Damascening, Dharma, Diamond, Early Japanese iron-working techniques, Earthenware, Edo period, Embroidery, Engraved gem, Fine art, Folk art, Furisode, Fusuma, Geta (footwear), Glass casting, Glass etching, Glass production, Glassblowing, Gold leaf, Hagi ware, Hakata doll, Hakuji, Handicraft, Hasami ware, Heian period, Hemp, Heredity, Hinamatsuri, ..., Hokkaido, Ikebana, Imperial Household Artist, Indigo, Inkstone, Inrō, Intangible Cultural Property (Japan), Ivory, Izumo-taisha, Japan, Japan Kōgei Association, Japanese art, Japanese carpentry, Japanese clothing, Japanese dolls, Japanese lacquerware, Japanese pottery and porcelain, Japanese swordsmithing, Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese tea utensils, Jōmon period, Jūnihitoe, Kakiemon, Kamakura-bori, Kanzashi, Karatsu ware, Kimono, Kirikane, Kofun period, Kokka, Kumejima-tsumugi, Kumihimo, Kutani ware, Lac, Lath, List of Living National Treasures of Japan (crafts), Living National Treasure (Japan), Maki-e, Mashiko ware, Meibutsu, Meiji period, Metalsmith, Mingei, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Morus (plant), Mumyōi ware, Museum of Arts and Design, Nara period, National Treasure (Japan), Neko chigura, Neolithic, Nerikomi, Netsuke, Nishijin-ori, Obi (sash), Okakura Kakuzō, Onta ware, Owari Province, Painting, Paper marbling, Platinum, Pongee, Porcelain, Pottery, Raden, Reed (plant), Rotogravure, Rural crafts, Samurai, Sancai, Seto ware, Shigaraki ware, Shino ware, Silk, Silver, Sokutai, Statue, Stoneware, Studio craft, Sutra, Tansu, Textile, Tokoname ware, Tokuda Yasokichi, Tokyo, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Triangle, Trihexagonal tiling, Tsuboya ware, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, Urushi-e, Vitreous enamel, Wabi-sabi, Wajima-nuri, Washi, Weaving, Yanagi Sōetsu, Yūki-tsumugi, Yūri-kinsai, Yūzen, Yosegi, Yukata. Expand index (102 more) »

Agate

Agate is a rock consisting primarily of cryptocrystalline silica, chiefly chalcedony, alternating with microgranular quartz.

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Ainu people

The Ainu or the Aynu (Ainu アィヌ ''Aynu''; Japanese: アイヌ Ainu; Russian: Айны Ajny), in the historical Japanese texts the Ezo (蝦夷), are an indigenous people of Japan (Hokkaido, and formerly northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and formerly the Kamchatka Peninsula).

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Ando Cloisonné Company

is a Japanese cloisonné making company located in Sakae, Nagoya, central Japan.

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Art of Europe

The art of Europe, or Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe.

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Artisan

An artisan (from artisan, artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates things by hand that may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative arts, sculptures, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and tools or even mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker.

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Bachiru

is the Japanese art technique and Japanese craft of engraving dyed ivory.

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Bambooworking

Bambooworking is the activity or skill of making items from bamboo, and includes architecture, carpentry, furniture and cabinetry, carving, joinery, and weaving.

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Basket weaving

Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into two- or threedimensional artefacts, such as mats or containers.

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Bizen ware

is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Bizen province, presently a part of Okayama prefecture.

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Blue and white pottery

"Blue and white pottery" covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide.

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Brocade

Brocade is a class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.

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Ceramic glaze

Ceramic glaze is an impervious layer or coating of a vitreous substance which has been fused to a ceramic body through firing.

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Chaki

Chaki (茶器) is a Japanese term that literally means "tea implement".

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Champlevé

Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel.

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Children's Day (Japan)

is a Japanese national holiday which takes place annually on May 5 and is the final celebration in Golden Week.

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Cloisonné

Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Craft

A craft or trade is a pastime or a profession that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work.

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Crystal

A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.

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Cultural Property (Japan)

A is administered by the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs, and includes tangible properties (structures and works of art or craft); intangible properties (performing arts and craft techniques); folk properties both tangible and intangible; monuments historic, scenic and natural; cultural landscapes; and groups of traditional buildings.

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Daimyō

The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

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Damascening

Damascening is the art of inlaying different metals into one another—typically, gold or silver into a darkly oxidized steel background—to produce intricate patterns similar to niello.

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Dharma

Dharma (dharma,; dhamma, translit. dhamma) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.

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Diamond

Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.

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Early Japanese iron-working techniques

Early Japanese iron-working techniques.

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Earthenware

Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below 1200°C.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn.

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Engraved gem

An engraved gem, frequently referred to as an intaglio, is a small and usually semi-precious gemstone that has been carved, in the Western tradition normally with images or inscriptions only on one face.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Folk art

Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople.

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Furisode

A is a style of kimono distinguishable by its long sleeves, which range in length from 85 centimeters for a kofurisode (小振袖) to 114 centimeters for an ōfurisode (大振袖).

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Fusuma

In Japanese architecture, are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors.

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Geta (footwear)

are a form of traditional Japanese footwear that resemble clogs and flip-flops.

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Glass casting

Glass casting is the process in which glass objects are cast by directing molten glass into a mould where it solidifies.

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Glass etching

Glass etching comprises the techniques of creating art on the surface of glass by applying acidic, caustic, or abrasive substances.

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Glass production

Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers.

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Glassblowing

Glassblowing is a glassforming technique that involves inflating molten glass into a bubble (or parison), with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube).

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Gold leaf

Gold leaf is gold that has been hammered into thin sheets by goldbeating and is often used for gilding.

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Hagi ware

is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally originated from the town of Hagi, Yamaguchi, in the former Nagato Province.

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Hakata doll

A is a traditional Japanese clay doll, originally from the city of Fukuoka, part of which was previously named Hakata before the city merger in 1889.

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Hakuji

is a form of Japanese pottery and porcelain, normally white porcelain, which originated as an imitation of Chinese Dehua porcelain.

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Handicraft

A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.

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Hasami ware

is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Hasami, Nagasaki prefecture.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hemp

Hemp, or industrial hemp (from Old English hænep), typically found in the northern hemisphere, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products.

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Heredity

Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring, either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction, the offspring cells or organisms acquire the genetic information of their parents.

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Hinamatsuri

, also called Doll's Day or Girls' Day, is a special day in Japan.

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Hokkaido

(), formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is the second largest island of Japan, and the largest and northernmost prefecture.

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Ikebana

is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.

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Imperial Household Artist

An Imperial Household Artist (Japanese: Teishitsu Gigei-in 帝室技芸員) was an artist who was officially appointed by the Imperial Household Ministry to create works of art for the Tokyo Imperial Palace and other imperial residences.

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Indigo

Indigo is a deep and rich color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine.

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Inkstone

An inkstone is a stone mortar for the grinding and containment of ink.

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Inrō

An (plural the same) is a traditional Japanese case for holding small objects, suspended from the obi (sash) worn around the waist.

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Intangible Cultural Property (Japan)

An, as defined by the Japanese government's Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (1950), is a part of the Cultural PropertiesIn this article, capitals indicate an official designation as opposed to a simple definition, e.g "Cultural Properties" as opposed to "cultural properties".

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Ivory

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of animals, that can be used in art or manufacturing.

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Izumo-taisha

, officially Izumo Ōyashiro, is one of the most ancient and important Shinto shrines in Japan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Kōgei Association

The Japan Kōgei Association (日本工芸会) is a non-profit association dedicated to the protection and development of, traditional Japanese crafts and supporting artisans such as Living National Treasures.

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Japanese art

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, and more recently manga—modern Japanese cartooning and comics—along with a myriad of other types.

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Japanese carpentry

Japanese carpentry is carpentry in Japan.

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Japanese clothing

There are typically two types of clothing that the Japanese wear: the, such as kimonos, and.

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Japanese dolls

are one of the traditional Japanese crafts.

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Japanese lacquerware

is a Japanese craft with a wide range of fine and decorative arts, as lacquer has been used in urushi-e, prints, and on a wide variety of objects from Buddha statues to bento boxes for food.

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Japanese pottery and porcelain

(also 焼きもの yakimono, or 陶芸 tōgei), is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period.

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Japanese swordsmithing

Japanese swordsmithing is the labour-intensive bladesmithing process developed in Japan for forging traditionally made bladed weapons (nihonto) including katana, wakizashi, tantō, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, uchigatana, nodachi, ōdachi, kodachi, and ya (arrow).

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Japanese tea ceremony

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha (抹茶), powdered green tea.

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Japanese tea utensils

Tea utensils (茶道具, chadōgu) are tools or implements used in chadō, the art of Japanese tea.

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Jōmon period

The is the time in Japanese prehistory, traditionally dated between 14,000–300 BCE, recently refined to about 1000 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a hunter-gatherer culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.

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Jūnihitoe

The is an extremely elegant and highly complex kimono that was only worn by court-ladies in Japan.

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Kakiemon

is a style of Japanese porcelain, with overglaze decoration called "enameled" ceramics.

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Kamakura-bori

is a form of lacquerware from Kamakura, Japan.

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Kanzashi

are hair ornaments used in traditional Japanese hairstyles.

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Karatsu ware

is a style of Japanese pottery produced traditionally in and around Karatsu, Saga Prefecture.

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Kimono

The is a traditional Japanese garment.

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Kirikane

is a Japanese decorative technique used for Buddhist statues and paintings, using gold leaf, silver leaf, platinum leaf cut into lines, diamonds and triangles.

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Kofun period

The is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538 AD, following the Yayoi period.

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Kokka

(lit. 'Flower of the Nation') is a periodical of Oriental art, first issued in October 1889.

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Kumejima-tsumugi

is the Japanese craft of silk cloth practised in Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture.

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Kumihimo

is a Japanese form of braid-making.

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Kutani ware

is a style of Japanese porcelain traditionally supposed to be from Kutani, now a part of Kaga, Ishikawa, in the former Kaga Province.

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Lac

Lac is the scarlet resinous secretion of a number of species of lac insects, of which the most commonly cultivated species is Kerria lacca.

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Lath

A lath or slat is a thin, narrow strip of straight-grained wood used under roof shingles or tiles, on lath and plaster walls and ceilings to hold plaster, and in lattice and trellis work.

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List of Living National Treasures of Japan (crafts)

This list of Living National Treasures of Japan (crafts) contains all the individuals and groups certified as Living National Treasures by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan in the category of the.

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Living National Treasure (Japan)

is a Japanese popular term for those individuals certified as by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as based on Japan's.

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Maki-e

is Japanese lacquer sprinkled with gold or silver powder as a decoration using a makizutsu or a kebo brush.

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Mashiko ware

is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally made in Mashiko, Tochigi.

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Meibutsu

Meibutsu (名物) is a Japanese word for "speciality".

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Meiji period

The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Metalsmith

A metalsmith or simply smith is a craftsman fashioning useful items (for example, tools, kitchenware, tableware, jewellery, and weapons) out of various metals.

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Mingei

, the Japanese folk art movement, was developed in the late 1920s and 1930s in Japan.

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The, also known as MEXT, Monka-shō, and formerly the, is one of the ministries of the Japanese government.

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Morus (plant)

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.

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Mumyōi ware

is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Sado, Niigata.

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Museum of Arts and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design.

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Nara period

The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794.

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National Treasure (Japan)

Some of the National Treasures of Japan A National Treasure (国宝: kokuhō) is the most precious of Japan's Tangible Cultural Properties, as determined and designated by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (a subsidiary of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology).

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Neko chigura

Neko chigura (nekochigura) or Neko tsugura (nekotsugura) is a kind of cat house made of straw in Japan.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Nerikomi

Nerikomi (練り込み, lit. "kneading") is an artistic technique for creating Japanese pottery agateware.

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Netsuke

are miniature sculptures that were invented in 17th-century Japan to serve a practical function (the two Japanese characters ne+tsuke mean "root" and "to attach").

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Nishijin-ori

is a traditional textile produced in the district of Kamigyō-ku in Kyoto, Japan.

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Obi (sash)

is a sash for traditional Japanese dress, keikogi (uniforms for Japanese martial arts), and part of kimono outfits.

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Okakura Kakuzō

(also known as 岡倉 天心 Okakura Tenshin) was a Japanese scholar who contributed to the development of arts in Japan.

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Onta ware

, also spelled Onda, refers to a type of Japanese pottery produced in and around the village of Onta in Ōita Prefecture, Japan.

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Owari Province

was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Paper marbling

Paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design, which can produce patterns similar to smooth marble or other kinds of stone.

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Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element with symbol Pt and atomic number 78.

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Pongee

Pongee is a soft thin woven cloth.

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Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between.

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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.

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Raden

is a style and technique in Japanese lacquerware and woodwork using inlays of shell and ivory to decorate pieces that usually have a wood base, whether lacquered or not, though bases of metal or other materials may be used.

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Reed (plant)

Reed is a common name for several tall, grass-like plants of wetlands.

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Rotogravure

Rotogravure (roto or gravure for short) is a type of intaglio printing process, which involves engraving the image onto an image carrier.

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Rural crafts

Rural crafts refers to the traditional crafts production that is carried on, simply for everyday practical use, in the agricultural countryside.

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Samurai

were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.

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Sancai

Sancai is a versatile type of decoration on Chinese pottery using glazes or slip, predominantly in the three colours of brown (or amber), green, and a creamy off-white.

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Seto ware

refers to a type of Japanese pottery, stoneware, and ceramics produced in and around Seto in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

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Shigaraki ware

Shigaraki ware (信楽焼) is an type of pottery and stoneware made in Shigaraki area, Japan.

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Shino ware

is Japanese pottery, usually stoneware, originally from Mino Province, in present-day Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Silver

Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.

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Sokutai

The is a complex attire worn only by courtiers, aristocrats and the Emperor at the Japanese imperial court.

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Statue

A statue is a sculpture, representing one or more people or animals (including abstract concepts allegorically represented as people or animals), free-standing (as opposed to a relief) and normally full-length (as opposed to a bust) and at least close to life-size, or larger.

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Stoneware

--> Stoneware is a rather broad term for pottery or other ceramics fired at a relatively high temperature.

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Studio craft

Studio craft is the practice of craft methodology in an artist's studio.

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Sutra

A sutra (Sanskrit: IAST: sūtra; Pali: sutta) is a religious discourse (teaching) in text form originating from the spiritual traditions of India, particularly Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

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Tansu

is the traditional mobile storage cabinetry indigenous to Japan.

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Textile

A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres (yarn or thread).

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Tokoname ware

refers to a type of Japanese pottery, stoneware, and ceramics produced in and around the municipality of Tokoname, Aichi, in central Japan.

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Tokuda Yasokichi

Tokuda Yasokichi (20 November 1873 – 20 February 1956)(徳田八十吉) was a Japanese potter. He specialised in Kutani ware.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tokyo Imperial Palace

The is the primary residence of the Emperor of Japan.

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Triangle

A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices.

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Trihexagonal tiling

In geometry, the trihexagonal tiling is one of 11 uniform tilings of the Euclidean plane by regular polygons.

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Tsuboya ware

is a type of Ryukyuan pottery traditionally from Tsuboya, presently a part of Naha, in the former Ryukyu Kingdom.

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UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists

UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.

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Urushi-e

Urushi-e (漆絵 "lacquer picture") refers to two types of Japanese artworks: paintings painted with actual lacquer, and particular woodblock printing styles which use regular ink but are said to resemble the darkness and thickness of black lacquer.

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Vitreous enamel

Vitreous enamel, also called porcelain enamel, is a material made by fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between.

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Wabi-sabi

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

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Wajima-nuri

Wajima-nuri (輪島塗) is a type of Japanese lacquerware from Wajima, Ishikawa.

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Washi

is traditional Japanese paper.

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Weaving

Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

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Yanagi Sōetsu

, also known as Yanagi Muneyoshi, was a Japanese philosopher and founder of the mingei (folk craft) movement in Japan in the late 1920s and 1930s.

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Yūki-tsumugi

is the Japanese craft of silk cloth practised chiefly in the vicinity of Yūki in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Yūri-kinsai

is a gold leaf-application technique used in Japanese pottery and porcelain.

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Yūzen

is a Japanese dyeing technique for fabrics.

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Yosegi

is a type of traditional Japanese marquetry which originated during Japan's culturally rich Edo period.

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Yukata

A is a Japanese garment, a casual summer kimono usually made of cotton or synthetic fabric, and unlined.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_craft

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