Kawamura Sake Brewery

Hanamaki doll

Hanamaki dolls, a type of mud doll, were created during the Kyoho era by Zenshiro Ota of Hanamaki Kajicho, who learned the techniques of making Fushimi dolls in Kyoto and Tsutsumi dolls in Sendai. There are many different types of dolls, from auspicious ones such as hina dolls, Ebisu, and Daikoku, to motifs such as zodiac signs and animals.

The original enshu ware “Mine no Sanga”

``Ganso Enshuyaki Mine no Sanga'' from Takako Confectionery, a long-established confectionery store founded in the Meiji era, is a famous confectionery that represents Osako-cho, Hanamaki City. A product made by wrapping red bean paste in dough mixed with sesame seeds and baking it slowly. It has a sublime sweetness and a delicious aroma and sesame flavor.

Narushima Washi

It is said that the production of washi paper began in Towa Town before the first year of Kanbun, and during the feudal period, it was used as official paper for the Nanbu domain. Until just after the end of the war, several houses in the Narushima area were producing washi paper, but with the spread of mass-produced Western paper, the demand for washi declined, and now it is only produced at the Washi Crafts Museum. Narushima washi paper is made by hand, one by one, using mulberry and mitsumata as raw materials, and is well known as Japan's northernmost washi paper.