Echizen-shikki

Lacquerware from Fukui with 1,500 years of history, strong in tableware production.

Echizen-shikki is a lacquerware tradition from Sabae, Fukui Prefecture, with approximately 1,500 years of history, making it one of Japan's oldest lacquerware producing regions. Legend holds that a lacquer artisan repaired a crown for Emperor Keitai, who then encouraged the craft's development. Today Echizen produces a wide range of lacquerware from traditional hand-finished pieces to modern tableware for the restaurant industry, accounting for about 80% of Japan's commercial lacquerware production.