Tekiseisha

**Seventy per cent of Japan's domestic lacquer.** From this one district. That statistic is why the restoration of national treasures depends on Joboji. **Watch through the studio glass.** Coating and polishing happen on site and are visible from the showroom. Viewing costs nothing. **It is made to be used.** Joboji ware is plain, thickly coated and descended from monks' daily bowls. It is not decorative lacquer and is priced and built accordingly. **Closed Tuesdays.** And it opens early, at half past eight, which suits a morning stop on the way north. **Walk up to Tendaiji.** The temple whose monks' bowls started the tradition is a few minutes away, on a hill, and is the reason any of this is here.