2023.01.16
Shogi pieces using bag manufacturing technology

Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, is famous as a production area of "bags" that produces more than 60% of the products made in Japan.
Therefore, "Hattori Co., Ltd.", a long-established bag workshop that continues to make original bags,
The challenge was not a new bag... but "all leather shogi".

Over the course of more than two years, 730 days
The product was developed in collaboration with a young piece craftsman from a shogi-making union in Tendo City, Yamagata Prefecture, the home of Japanese shogi.

The technique has something in common with the technique of making bags.
We are making bags and things to preserve the spirit of Japanese craftsmanship as a traditional craft.

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