Mage-Wappa making (traditional bentwood crafts) experience! Chose from Lunch box / Bread plate / Tray [Akita·Odate]​ ​

You can choose your favorite “experience kit” and have a handmade experience while enjoying the Odate bend process. Traditional craftsmen will support you directly until completion! While enjoying the production process, Akita It is an experience where you can learn about cedar and how to handle bent wappers. Since the shop displays and sells various bent wappa works, Akita Please feel free to touch the warmth of cedar products. There are various musical compositions in various parts of Japan, but only Odate Bend Wappa has been designated as a national traditional craft. Akita The elegant texture and warmth of the cedar, the certain techniques that have been inherited, and these produce the gem that Japan is proud of. Easy to use even in modern times less From 3 different kits, you can take home your happily produced work that day! ◆ Experience menu (about 2 hours) “Bread plate (18 皿)” ・ Price 3,000 yen"Seven inch tray (21cm)" ・ Price 4,000 yen"Round lunch box (16cm)" ・ Price 5,000 yen

It is about 1300 years that the Akida cedar became to the materiel of mage-wappa. The mage-wappa work estimated as belonging to the early 10th century is displaying in Odate City Musem. The works have almost the same shape as it does today surprisingly. In late 17th century, Odate Castle Lord, Nishiya Satake encouraged mage-wappa making as a sideline of lower-grade warriors and developed it as an industry. It has been registered as a traditional craft of the country since 1980 while developing as a specialty product representing Akida nowadays. The mage-wappa are still made and used in the daily life.

Akita mage-wappa, made in Odate city, is using one of Japan's famous woods as cedar. The cedar grow naturally is banned for the purpose of environment friendly though, the woods from afforestation are traded as material now. But the quality of even wood grain, lightness, elasticity and the pleasant smell are the same. There is no change of being the best material for mage-wappa making. Odate Craft Studio is providing the best products under the environment friendly policy that maintain the balance of logging and planting.

The mage-wappa has used the most beautiful part with the grain of annual ring. Thin the wood and then soften it with boiling water. Bend it quickly according to the mold and dry it. Tight the dried bentwood with bark of Japanese cherry. At last, polish the surface with sandpaper. All these processes are hand-crafted by craftsmen, techniques that has not changed from the old ages of the birth of the mage-wappa. Every piece of work are made in a long time filled with efforts and carefulness.