Takenaka Douki

The history of Takaoka copperware traces back to the early Edo period, when Kaga Domain lord Maeda Toshinaga established the casting industry in the Takaoka castle town. In this flow of tradition, Takenaka Douki was founded in Takaoka in 1927 — refining techniques centered on copperware processing while handling diverse copperware products including Buddhist tools, flower vessels, and tea utensils.

From the high economic growth era onward, with rising demand for bronze statues, busts, and monuments at public facilities, schools, and companies, Takenaka Douki also focused on bronze statue production. Today, with the largest production record in Japan at over 3,000 works, its pieces can be seen in indoor and outdoor spaces nationwide.

At the same time, the company has evolved Takaoka copperware as gifts and commemorative items. The brand proposes Takaoka copperware that can be enjoyed close to daily life — hand-engraved vases and incense burners, auspicious-motif figurines, and small items that blend into modern interiors.

Leveraging the online shop and catalogs, delivering the casting techniques and aesthetics cultivated in the production area of Takaoka to more people — this is Takenaka Douki's current role, and the unchanging core of its production going forward.

A copperware maker founded in 1927, inheriting the tradition of Takaoka copperware

Takenaka Douki was founded in 1927 in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture — the production area of the traditional craft "Takaoka copperware" with over 400 years of history. Centered on copperware such as vases, incense burners, and tea utensils, it is a long-established maker that has continued refining metal-casting techniques.

Japan's largest scale — over 3,000 bronze statues, busts, and monuments produced

In the production of bronze statues, busts, and various monuments, the company boasts the largest production record in Japan at over 3,000 works. Bronze statues crafted by Takenaka Douki are installed across the country — at schools and public facilities, as commemorative monuments for companies and municipalities, and as outdoor monuments.

A wide range of Takaoka copperware vases, incense burners, holders, and commemorative items

The company widely offers items befitting gifts and commemorative items — Takaoka copperware vases in paulownia boxes, hand-engraved incense burners, incense holders with auspicious crane-and-turtle motifs, "auspicious-day plates" and chopstick rests for celebratory days.

Takaoka copperware blending into modern dining tables, using tin and aluminum

Beyond copper vases and incense burners, the lineup also includes tableware and small items using tin and aluminum. From aluminum "flower coasters" to tin chopstick-rest series and chopstick rests modeled after Toyama Bay seafood — the brand proposes Takaoka copperware easy to incorporate into modern dining tables.

Delivered nationwide through online shop and catalog

Through the online shop and catalogs, Takaoka copperware vases, incense burners, commemorative items, and zodiac figurines are shipped nationwide. With noshi (gift wrapping) also supported, the items are chosen for various gift occasions — housewarming, longevity celebrations, store opening, and corporate founding anniversaries.