Bambooware

In addition to these, bambooware is one of the attractions, the articles consisting of baskets, stools, chairs, mats, sieves, fly flaps, chopsticks and fowl coops, while rope, dusting brushes, tapes and various small articles find a ready sale.

The center of the ironware craft and other elegant folk crafts such as bambooware and straw artifacts, the city of Morioka also has a well-known university, Iwate University, specializing in education, engineering, agriculture and medicine.

Following directions from a vendor, they drove to an old bambooware workshop out in the country and finally found what they were looking for. There were two varieties: the shallow ones were the size of a wash basin, while the deep ones were the regular one-foot-deep bamboo baskets.