Fude no Sato Kobo (Kumano Brush Museum) 筆の里工房
80% of Japan's brushes are made here, the first traditional craft to be designated in the prefecture.
Brush museum in the city of Kumano, which lives almost entirely off this craft. Brush-making in Kumano began at the end of the Edo period, when local people who went to work in the Kansai (Nara, Hyōgo) in winter came back with brushes and the technique for making them. The industry was at risk of disappearing with the arrival of the pencil, but from 1941 the return of calligraphy as a school subject revived it; after the war the makers extended the technique to painting brushes and, above all, to make-up brushes. In 1975 it was the first craft in Hiroshima Prefecture to be designated a Traditional Craft Product.
Hiroshima
Kumano Hagiwara Shako-mae (Kumano Hagiwara Depot), Kita-kenei Jutaku-mae, Kita-kenei Jutaku-mae
