Craft · No. 152
No. 152金工品
Tsubame Tsuiki Copperware
燕鎚起銅器
tsubame tsuiki copperware · 新潟県
Tsubame Tsuiki Copperware is a traditional metalcraft from Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, in which copper sheets are shaped entirely by hand-hammering without seams or joints, producing vessels of exceptional strength and refined beauty.
- Origin
- 新潟県
- Category
- 金工品
- Materials
- Copper · 硫酸銅
- Designation
- Nat'l Traditional Craft
No. IHistory
The roots of Tsubame Tsuiki Copperware reach back to the Edo period, when the Tsubame area was already well established as a center of metalworking, p…
No. IIMaterials
The primary material is pure copper (tough-pitch copper) sheet, prized for its exceptional ductility and malleability, which make it ideal for the rep…
No. IIITechniques
The defining technique, tsuiki, involves raising a single flat sheet of copper into a three-dimensional vessel using only hammers and anvil stakes — n…
No. IVClimate
Tsubame City lies in the heavy-snowfall zone along the Sea of Japan coast, where long winters historically confined farmers indoors for months at a ti…
