Daishodo is recognizable by its warm beige storefront tucked within the Teramachi shopping arcade. Since nineteen twenty-six, this shop has specialized in ukiyo-e, the traditional Japanese woodblock prints that captured scenes of the…
Teramachi Traditional Craft Shops
This walk takes you along Kyoto's historic Teramachi Street to meet multi-generational families keeping Japan's traditional arts alive. You will visit centuries-old shops specializing in handmade washi paper, natural incense, calligraphy brushes, and rare woodblock prints.
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1. Daishodo Japanese Woodblock Prints
2. Kamiji Kakimoto
Kamiji Kakimoto is a store on Teramachi Street in Kyoto, identifiable by the stacks of handmade washi paper that fill its shelves and display areas. Founded in eighteen forty-five, the shop specializes in traditional Japanese paper…
3. Saiun-do
Saiun-do appears much like an ancient pharmacy, with shelves lined with glass jars and vials containing colorful mineral and vegetable powders. This shop has provided materials for traditional Japanese painting, known as Nihonga, for well…
4. Kyukyodo
Kyukyodo is marked by a facade of charred timber screens and board-formed concrete on Teramachi Street. Founded in sixteen sixty-three as a pharmacy, the shop transitioned into a specialist for incense, calligraphy supplies, and washi…
5. Unsodo Corporation
Unsodo Corporation is a publisher of art books and woodblock prints that has operated in Kyoto since eighteen ninety-one. The company name was chosen by the literati painter Tomioka Tessai, and it honors the herb rue, which was…
6. Akao Shobundo Bookshop
Akao Shobundo occupies the second floor of the Daiko Building on Nijo Street. You can identify the shop by its location within this quiet, unassuming multi-story structure, which sits east of Teramachi Street. While the storefront is…
7. 龍枝堂
Ryushido is a long-established brush shop located along Teramachi Street, just north of Nijo Street. You can identify this storefront by the traditional array of calligraphy supplies displayed inside, which include roughly four hundred…