From printing brush to body brush and brush for pets, Mr. Oouchi produces many new products with the change in present society. His sence to see current of the times and the taste of the consumers is clear.

Edo Brush hands down the techniques of brush manufacturing which has the history of over one thousand years. They are made for paper hanging and mounting, and they are good for spreading the paste. They are good in glue containing, strength of the brush, and brush hair's gathering, and that's' what makes the gluing easy. Receives number of orders from paper hangers all over Japan.

It is said that brushes started being produced inland with the arrival of Kuro-Fune (American ships which urged Japan to open trade with them), at the end of Edo period. Mr. Miyagawa creates various brushes to fit various means, such as for HANGA (Japanese print), URUSHI-NURI (Japanese lacquer), SENSHOKU (Japanese dying) and Japanese doll making. This is done by selecting the right raw materials for them. This is why he has large patronage such as industrial artists and artists all over the country.

The life of edged tools are there sharpness. It was 3rd year of Meiji-era, right before the government enforced Order of Abolition of Katana(sword), skills of cutlery industry that continued for couple of hundreds of years ago were applied in manufacturing of plane woodcrafting plane. Mr. Ishido@strongly says "boast in how well it cuts", and in his skills lives a long history. His works receive great reputations especially from woodcraft craftsman.

Edo cutlery handicraft inherits the current of scissors for flower arrangement that continuously developed with floral art which was started in Muromachi era. The attitude to pursuit the sharpness, beauty of its functionality, and endurance of cutlery remains unchanged from old days. Mr. Kawasumi is the second generation of Kuniharu (Tokyo Traditional Handicraft Master). Fascinated by his works, there are many customers in the field of Ikebana(Flower arrangement) and Bonsai(Potted plant).

Leather cutting knives were produced as hand tools for artisans, but since the cutting object changed with times, great variety of steel quality were introduced. Recently, Super special steel is used. Nowadays, leather crafting is counted as one of people's hobby, so the knives are shaped for easier sharpening, and more useful.

In early Meiji-Era, large quantity of thick woolen cloth was imported from Europe and America. At the same time, scissors to cut this thick woolen cloth were also imported. This scissors were improved by tempering techniques of Japanese swords, and became the scissors of today. Recently in a household, there are tendency of not using old huge cutting scissors, but instead, small weight, and light weight scissors are used.

From ancient times, the materials of handles are made of woods, but from Azuchi-Momoyama-Era, metals are used. Ground metal of the handle are mostly copper and brass. For coloring, they are boiled well for many hours with verdigris and sulfuric copper. This method was invented long time ago in Sentoku-Era of China and inherited to nowadays. You can feel the warmth of hands of craftsman from the products made carefully with variety of tools.