Not becoming too extravagant, inheriting the traditional Edo era techniques of family altar manufacturing, but at the same time is arranged with modern taste, family altar manufactured by Mr. Endo is easy to clean up, and accepts the modern sense to match the living space of today.

History of Tokyo family altar can go back up to the late Edo era. Mr. Otaki tries to design the altar that is easy to take care of, matches the modern life style, but at the same time keeps the traditional manufacturing methods.

Engraves Chinese characters on Buddhist altar fittings(mainly Buddhist mortuary tablet). Mr. Nishimura has been on this field of art since he was 14years of age, and he prides himself of his 32years of experience. There are only 2-3 people who inherits the traditional hand engraving techniques in Tokyo.

Soshu's wood carving mainly uses Japanese wood material, and of cource gets finished only with a chisel without the use of pouring paper. This makes use of the straight grain and introducing the skill of TAKUMI from Azuchi-Momoyama period. The representative of SHUTAN, Mr. Yokoya is a craftsman so great that he dealt with SHIBAMATA-TAISHAKUTEN-DOUHAME sculpture.

Carving the Kiri made products and wrapping the carved part with cloth(This processing technique is called Kimekomi). The surface of Kiri products are of sober colors, but colorful patterns and pictures are drawn on it by this technique. With coloring, the products become more elegant art masterpiece. Due to the westernizing of lifestyle, products with both Japanese and Western style such as western chest and remote controller case are developed, and still live within living space of today.

Sunago is powder of real gold, real silver, platinum, etc. Sunago-shi draws patterns in sliding doors, and folding screens by spreading the sunago. It is said that this techniques was started in Asuka-Era to make Buddha pictures and copied Buddhist scriptures look gorgeous. Pictures were drawn by painters, and sunago-shi draws a pattern. The procedures were done by assembly work. Mr. Tabei is now challenging to draw landscape paintings only with sunago.