About Event
This hands-on activity is unique to Kanazawa. You will get the chance to handle an extremely thin, delicate gold leaf with a thickness of 1/10,000 mm. Participants will be able to make gold leaf crafts in a peaceful atmosphere of the quaint space inside the traditional teahouse building while receiving kind and detailed guidance from the instructor.
Events & Exhibitions Information
| Schedule | HAKUZA Hikarigura will be open throughout the event period. HAKUZA Keikodokoro will be closed on Sundays, Mondays, and national holidays. |
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| Times | 10:00 to 17:00 (at HAKUZA Keikodokoro) |
| Admission fee | 972 yen for a pair of chopsticks, 1,404 yen for a four seasons design plate, other items also available (reservation required) |
| Tel | (HAKUZA Keikodokoro): 076-252-3641 |
HAKUZA Hikarigura
Facilities / Organizations information
| Address | 1-13-18 Higashiyama, Kanazawa City |
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| Transportation | Take the Kanazawa Loop Bus (right loop) and get off at Hashiba-cho (Higashi/Kazuemachi Chayagai). Three-minute walk from the bus stop. OR Take any scheduled bus operated by Hokuriku Rail Road bound for Yanagibashi via Hashiba-cho and get off at Hashiba-cho. Five-minute walk from the bus stop. |
| URL | https://www.hakuza.co.jp |
| Contact information | HAKUZA Hikarigura TEL: 076-251-8930 E-mail: hikarigura@hakuza.co.jp HAKUZA Keikodokoro TEL: 076-252-3641 E-mail: haku-keikodokoro@hakuza.co.jp *HAKUZA Keikodokoro is a space for gold leaf craft activities located in HAKUZA Hikarigura. |
The Essence
The golden storehouse stands at the back of our shop in the courtyard. We brought a more than 100 years old traditional Japanese storehouse back to life as an unprecedented storehouse with the reliable traditional skills and techniques of traditional plasterers and gold leaf production. The exterior walls were redone as plastered walls and were finished with The eternal color: Pure gold & platinum gold leaf. The interior walls have a gradation created with a mixture of the dirt used for the original walls and pasty indigo from Okinawa covered with 24K pure gold leaf. In this new attempt, we collaborated with Mr. Syuhei Hasado, a certified plasterer who is active not only in Japan but around the world.
* The surface of the exterior walls was not coated in order to enable visitors to directly enjoy the charms of gold leaf.
Since the building was opened to the public in 2004, no renovation or repair work has been done.
Discoveries
Our shop is in a traditional teahouse building located roughly in the middle of the Higashi Chayagai district. In the space with a quaint atmosphere inside this more than 100 years old building, we convey the charms of our original gold leaf created by mixing pure gold and pure platinum gold, pure gold & platinum gold leaf, as HAKUHIN items for today’s lifestyles including dishes, bowls, cups, jewelry, and bags. The golden storehouse that stands at the back of the shop in the courtyard is a must-see. We also offer craft activities for experiencing and enjoying gold leaf at HAKUZA Keikodokoro (reservation required).
* This shop opened in April 2004.
HAKUHIN: We pursue the innate, infinite strengths and beauties of gold leaf. One by one and with great care, we create gold leaf items that feature expressions unique to gold leaf. We have named these gold leaf items HAKUHIN.
Brief history
The company and brand name HAKUZA was taken from an actual regulatory body of gold and silver leaf items called Hakuza that once existed during the long history of gold leaf production and use in Japan. In the space with a quaint atmosphere inside the HAKUZA Hikarigura, a building more than 100 years old, we offer HAKUHIN, or our unique gold leaf items, for today’s lifestyles including dishes, bowls, cups, jewelry, and bags made with our original pure gold & platinum gold leaf.
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Dynamic beauty, overwhelming presence.
Golden storagehouse
The exterior walls are covered with pure gold & platinum gold leaf and the interior walls are covered with 24K pure gold leaf.
We brought a more than 100 years old traditional Japanese storehouse back to life as an unprecedented storehouse with the reliable traditional skills and techniques of traditional plasterers and gold leaf production.
The exterior walls were redone as plastered walls and were finished with The eternal color: Pure gold & platinum gold leaf which is a mixed gold leaf made of pure gold and platinum gold.
The interior walls have a gradation created with a mixture of the dirt used for the original walls and pasty indigo from Okinawa covered with 24K pure gold leaf.
In this new attempt, we collaborated with Mr. Syuhei Hasado, a certified plasterer who is active not only in Japan but around the world.
Approximately 20,000 gold leaf sheets were used. Exterior walls: The eternal color: Pure gold & platinum gold leaf Interior walls: 24K pure gold leaf
Open to the public since April 2, 2004.
We offer numerous HAKUHIN items full of new and unique charms of gold leaf.
Our original pure gold & platinum gold leaf was developed from a new perspective on gold leaf production –– to make a mixed gold leaf by combining pure gold and platinum gold.
Using this mixed gold leaf while making the best use of its beauty and charms, we create HAKUHIN items with grate care.
HAKUHIN items will make you want to own them, wear them, or give them to someone special.
We have a fresh and modern lineup of items that change the conventional concept of gold leaf.