Echizen Washi no Sato (Echizen Washi Village), a 10-minute walk from Okamoto Shrine and Ōtaki Shrine, is a focus for washi paper production and tourism. Amid the greenery of the precinct is yet ...

Echizen City in Fukui Prefecture is a major center for washi paper production. There, papermaker Igarashi Masami created "Food Paper," combining produce like potatoes or onions – mainly ...

Fukui is also famous for both titanium eyewear produced in Sabae City and, in particular, Echizen washi paper. Such is the skill of Echizen's paper makers that, back in the 19th Century ...

Artisans in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, which touts itself as the “town of Echizen Washi,” are resorting to their time-tested craftsmanship skills in hopes of keeping manga paintings in good ...

It is considered one of Japan's three major washi papers, alongside Echizen washi from Fukui Prefecture and Mino washi from Gifu Prefecture. Tosa Tengujo paper, which emerged in the Meiji era ...

Workers filter pulp at Iwano Heizaburo Seishi Sho, a washi mill in Japan’s Echizen Washi Village, in 2011. The most traditional style of making washi earned UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ...

Then to Echizen, center of traditional crafts, trying our hand at a unique method of decorating washi paper before meeting a master knifemaker, famous worldwide for his blades. Finally ...