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Gold-leaf-decorated objects and materials are sold at Gold Leaf Kanazawa Katani, with hands-on sessions for visitors who want to apply leaf themselves. Nosaku Lacquer Ware carries Kaga maki-e lacquerware alongside pieces from Wajima and Yamanaka, continuing a Kanazawa business founded in 1780. The lacquerware shop also runs maki-e workshops, bringing a practical introduction to the technique alongside finished pieces. Imai Kinpaku Main Store combines a gold-leaf showroom with application workshops, following the manufacturer's founding in Kanazawa in 1898.
Owaricho, Kanazawa
Katani sells gold-leaf-decorated craft objects and materials from its Kanazawa workshop. Hands-on sessions let visitors apply leaf themselves, turning the stop into both a purchase and a technique demonstration.
Best for Kanazawa gold-leaf craft goods and hands-on gold-leaf workshops.
Hirosaka, Kanazawa
Founded in 1780 in Kanazawa's Musashigatsutsuji district, Nosaku has sold Kaga maki-e lacquerware alongside Wajima and Yamanaka lacquer pieces across eight generations. It also runs hands-on maki-e gold-inlay workshops for visitors at its Kanazawa shops.
Best for Kaga maki-e lacquerware and hands-on maki-e workshops
Nosaku dates its founding to 1780, when Notoya Sakutaro opened a lacquerware shop in Kanazawa's Musashigatsutsuji district. Eight generations later the family business still operates under a stated motto, 'the shop exists for customers,' and continues to sell lacquerware out of Kanazawa rather than having relocated or franchised out the family name.
The shop's range covers three related but distinct Ishikawa Prefecture lacquer traditions: Kanazawa lacquerware decorated in the Kaga maki-e style, in which gold or silver powder is sprinkled into wet lacquer to build up a design; Wajima Nuri, the multi-layered lacquer technique associated with the port town of Wajima; and Yamanaka Nuri, known for lacquering over finely turned wood. Selling all three under one roof lets Nosaku present Ishikawa's lacquer output as a regional family rather than a single house style.
Beyond retail, Nosaku offers maki-e experience workshops where visitors can try the gold-leaf inlay technique themselves, alongside custom lacquerware commissions and a repair service for existing pieces. The business operates a main shop in Kanazawa's Hirokoji district and a second location inside JR Kanazawa Station, plus a small tea room, Urushi no Mi, on site.
Saiwaimachi, Kanazawa
A gold-leaf manufacturer with a showroom selling leaf-decorated goods and a workshop for applying gold leaf to take-home objects. The company was established in Kanazawa in 1898.
Best for Gold-leaf decorated goods and hands-on gold-leaf application workshops since 1898 in Kanazawa
Nomachi, Kanazawa
A fifth-generation workshop and shop making ceremonial paper decorations and gift wrapping with Kaga mizuhiki cords. The craft has been carried by five generations of the business.
Best for Fifth-generation Kaga mizuhiki cord ceremonial paper decorations and gift wrapping
Kanazawa
Kaga embroidery workshop in Kanazawa founded in 1912 by Sutaro Imai; now run by his great-granddaughter Sachiko Yokoyama, a nationally recognized traditional craftsperson, producing hand-stitched silk, gold and silver thread work.
Best for Kaga embroidery craftsmanship since 1912
The Kaga embroidery workshop known today as Kaga-nui IMAI began in 1912 in Kanazawa, founded by Sutaro Imai as 'Nui no Imai.' The craft itself dates back further, transmitted from Kyoto in the early Muromachi period alongside Buddhist teachings and originally used for altar decoration, using silk, gold and silver thread worked by hand into three-dimensional designs that cannot be replicated by machine. The workshop passed through a second-generation head, Fukueda, and a third, Kiyoshi, before reaching its current representative, Sachiko Yokoyama, the founder's great-granddaughter. Yokoyama was designated a National Traditional Craftsperson in 2008 and established the current Kaga-nui IMAI studio in 2011, continuing production of traditional pieces alongside newer, contemporary-facing designs.
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Kaga Yuzen Kaikan is Kanazawa's dedicated center for Kaga Yuzen, the hand-painted silk-dyeing technique developed for kimono under the Kaga domain, with exhibit rooms showing newly produced pieces alongside the dyeing tools and materials behind them. Its ground floor sells finished Kaga Yuzen textiles and smaller accessories, while a basement studio runs hands-on dyeing workshops.
Best for Kaga Yuzen silk textiles and dyeing workshops
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Gold Leaf Sakuda has manufactured and applied gold and silver leaf in Kanazawa since 1919, evolving from a leaf wholesaler into a maker of gilded folding screens and craft goods. Near the Higashi Chaya district, the company runs a factory tour, a small gold-leaf museum, and hands-on gilding workshops alongside its retail shop.
Best for Gold leaf workshops and gilded folding screens
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Opened in 1870, Kutani Kosen Kiln is a Kutani-yaki kiln operating within Kanazawa city, handling every stage of production from clay blending and wheel-throwing to the layered overglaze coloring that defines the ware. The kiln sells its own porcelain and runs studio tours plus painting and pottery-making workshops for visitors.
Best for Kutani porcelain and painting workshops
Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Based in Kanazawa's Nomachi district, Tsuda Mizuhiki works in Kaga mizuhiki, the local style of decorative paper-cord tying used for noshi wrapping and celebratory gifts, and extends the craft into three-dimensional cord sculptures depicting seasonal motifs. The studio also makes mizuhiki jewelry and DIY kits, one of which earned a Kanazawa Brand Excellent New Product distinction, and offers hands-on cord-tying workshops.
Best for Mizuhiki cord gifts and accessories
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