Craft
Crafts
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Hakata Magemono (4th & 14th floors)
Hakata Magemono is a container made by bending cedar or cypress boards by applying heat and binding them with cherry bark. It is said that it began when Empress Shen Gong gave birth to a prince in Hakata and made a container to store his robes. Among them, the works of Mr. Tamaki shibata, the eighteenth generation, who has been making and passing on Hakata Magemono for more than 400 years in the town of Hakata, are on display.
Artist: Tamaki shibata 18th
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Multiglass (4th floor)
Created by: Multi Glass Ltd.
Multi-layer glass is made by layering many layers of colored glass with different properties. Due to the beauty of its color, it was designated as a "Fukuoka Prefecture specialty craft" in 1988. Multi Glass Ltd. is a company that has a workshop in Fukutsu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and produces a number of glass crafts.
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Hakata Kirie (Card Key)
Author: Mr. Kazuyoshi Konishi
The late Mr. Kazuyoshi Konishi is an original art that expresses the scenery of Hakata and the beauty of Hakata with the theme of "Hakata", and the "Hakata Gion Yamakasa Kirie" series is especially famous.
In order to feel the chic of Hakata, we have adopted Hakata Kirie as a card key. 
