Located in Takaoka, Japan, Hakuhodo Sumitani Saburo & Co. creates metalworks craft and art products. The town is renowned for its skilled artisans who work with copper, brass and bronze, designing decorative, ornamental and Buddhist ware. The local, handmade craft tradition stretches back 400 years to the Edo period. Today, that manufacturing tradition is kept alive by using original casts and techniques combined with new metal processing technologies.