Sights in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima

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• 初音

  

  Hatsune Toy Flutes

  #3 ranked in Aizuwakamatsu

  A lucky Aizu New Year charm, sold only on the morning of New Year's Day from the Edo period until about 1965, which children blew as a toy.

• 会津木綿

  

  Aizu Cotton

  #4 ranked in Aizuwakamatsu

  Said to date from 1627, when lord Kato Yoshiaki brought weavers from Iyo-Matsuyama to teach the craft in Aizu.

• 会津唐人凧

  

  Aizu Tojin Kites

  #5 ranked in Aizuwakamatsu

  Kites that reached Nagasaki from the continent about 400 years ago; how they came to faraway Aizu is a mystery.

• 会津慶山焼

  

  Aizu Keizan Pottery

  #6 ranked in Aizuwakamatsu

  Began when Aizu lord Gamo Ujisato invited potters to make roof tiles for Kurokawa Castle, the forerunner of Tsuruga Castle.

• 会津絵ろうそく

  

  Aizu Painted Candles

  #7 ranked in Aizuwakamatsu

  Candle-making from lacquer-tree wax began in the late 16th century and was raised to a folk craft by Gamo Ujisato.

• 風車

  

  Pinwheels

  #8 ranked in Aizuwakamatsu

  A popular good-luck charm for prosperous business.