“Nanbu Tekki (Nanbu ironware)” is a traditional craft in the Tohoku Region, boasting approximately 400 years history.
Additions to traditional products like cha-no-yugama (tea kettle for tea ceremony) or tetsubin (iron tea pot), various new items suitable for modern life with keeping traditional goodness, such as kitchenware, wind-bell, ashtray, and housing are produced. Nanbu Tekki has high efficiency of thermal storage, superior thermal property and good thermal efficiency, and has feature that ironware supply iron nutrition for meals.
A designing company in Aomori collaborated with traditional Nanbu Tekki method and produced an okiagari-koboushi (round-bottomed doll) “Tetscco”. The Okiagari-koboushi, a craft with approximately 400 years history, is known as a good-luck charm for “Shichiten-hakki (life is full of ups and down)”, it is said to a symbol of perseverance and life because it returns to an upright position if it is knocked over again and again.
Tetscco ¥1,300 (not including tax)
Where you can buy “Tetscco”
A-FACTORY
| Address | 1-4-2 Yanagawa, Aomori-shi, Aomori 038-0012 |
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| Tel | 017-752-1890 |
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Asameshi Shokudo
| Address | 65-34 Aza-hotarudani, Asamushi, Aomori-shi 039-3501 |
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| Tel | 017-752-3322 |
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teco gallery
| Address | BLACK BOX, 1-14-3 Furukawa, Aomori-shi, Aomori 030-0862 |
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| Tel | 080-3474-0995 |
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KANEIRI MUSEUM SHOP
| Address | achinohe Portal Museum 1Fl, 11-1 Mikkamachi, Hachinohe-shi, Aomori 031-0032 |
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| Tel | 0178-20-9661 |
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ASYLUM
| Address | 112 Dotemachi, Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8182 |
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| Tel | 090-1067-7486 |
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Tsugaru Kokeshi Doll Museum
| Address | 72-1 Fukuro-tomiyama, Kuroishi-shi, Aomori 036-0412 |
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| Tel | 0172-54-8181 |
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