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Tea Boxes
Kintaro Koyangi, 72, of Kakunodate, who for 52 years has been practicing
the craft of cherry bark woodworking
.
The craft
started over 200 years ago
as a side business of the samurai.
It has died out in most of Japan, but it has
remained in Katunodate
.
The inside of the boxes are made from
willow bark and the outside from the bark of the cherry tree
.
The boxes are used to hold tea
.
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