Crafts
Hakata Textiles
40 Fukuoka
Textiles that began when Hakata merchants brought weaving techniques back from Song China in the Kamakura period; called kenjo Hakata after Kuroda Nagamasa presented them to the shogunate in the Edo period, Hakata obi sashes are easy to tie and make a squeaking silk sound, kyukkyu, as they are tightened.