Kijōka-bashōfu (喜如嘉の芭蕉布) is the Japanese craft of making cloth from the bashō or Japanese fibre banana as practiced in Kijōka in Ogimi, Okinawa. Like...

(日本人名大辞典)[1] Ministry of Cultural Affairs National Cultural Properties Database[2] '重要無形文化財の指定・認定について,' Ministry of Cultural Affairs, 16 July 2010 [3]...

Intangible Cultural Property that needs measures such as making records (記録作成等の措置を講ずべき無形文化財). Cultural Properties of Japan List of Cultural Properties of...

Ise-katagami (伊勢型紙) Paper stencils Mie Prefecture 1993 Textiles Kijōka-bashōfu (喜如嘉の芭蕉布) banana fibre cloth Okinawa Prefecture 1974 Textiles Kumejima-tsumugi (久米島紬)...