Toyama [Metalwork] TAKAOKA Doki (Bronze Casting)

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Art / Traditional crafts
Area
Hokuriku-Shinetsu Toyama
Shops
Traditional Crafts Aoyama Square
Update date
2023-01-26

Takaoka bronze casting dates back to the beginning of the Edo era (1600-1868) when the Maeda clan in Kaga invited seven highly skilled metal casters to come and work at their newly opened workshop.
The craft developed through the production of chased bronze Buddhist fittings, and in the Meiji era (1868-1912), work from the area was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle world's fair in Paris. Now 90% of all cast-bronze products from Japan are made in Takaoka.

The Takaoka cast-bronze craft involves 13 different casting methods that are selected according to the intended final product, which ranges in variety from table ornaments, flower vases, censers, and panels to statues of Buddha and other sculptures. Other items produced today include light fittings, table clocks, paper weights and bookends, all of which make excellent use of the qualities of the material.

TAKAOKA Doki (Bronze Casting) (details page)

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