中野伊助

Nakano Isuke began in 1764 as a rosary maker in Kyogoku-cho. Even in the age of machines, every process is by hand — the Japanese and English sites repeat the point in the same words. The materials have a concrete origin, too: the English site notes that wood from the mountains behind temples is reused to make some of the beads. An obsidian bead bracelet (8 mm) costs ¥10,395; a mother-of-pearl amber and blue agate bracelet costs ¥23,100. The official site is available in English.

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