Craft

仙北市立角館樺細工伝承館

Kakunodate Cherry Bark Work MuseumJapan

Kakunodate Kabazaiku Museum (仙北市立角館樺細工伝承館, Senboku Shiritsu Kakunodate Kabazaiku Denshōkan), also known in English as Kakunodate Cherry Bark Work Museum, opened in Kakunodate, now Semboku, Akita Prefecture, Japan in 1978.

Kakunodate Cherry Bark Handicrafts Denshokan Hall, Kakunodate Senboku Akita Japan, designed by Hiroshi Oe in 1978.
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Kakunodate Kabazaiku Museum (仙北市立角館樺細工伝承館, Senboku Shiritsu Kakunodate Kabazaiku Denshōkan), also known in English as Kakunodate Cherry Bark Work Museum, opened in Kakunodate, now Semboku, Akita Prefecture, Japan in 1978. Dedicated to the traditional craft of kabazaiku, there are also displays on other local crafts, including Shiraiwa-yaki ceramics, Kakunodate-shunkei lacquerware, and Itaya-zaiku maple wickerwork. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Kakunodate Kabazaiku Museum”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Kakunodate Cherry Bark Work Museum is museum in Semboku, Akita, Japan, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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