Last Updated: Apr 28, 2024

Kumano Hiroshima

The Calligraphy Brush Capital of Japan

Donny Kimball
8 min readApr 28, 2024

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Located in Nakamizo Kumano-cho Aki-gun, Hiroshima Kumano is known both in Japan and internationally for its Kumano brush fude. Made from top quality animal hair, this part of the country is surrounded by bucolic countryside and has been making Japanese fude since the Edo period.
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium.

Today, I’d like to talk to you about Kumano — no, not that Kumano in Wakayama. Instead, this time, we’re going to look at the sleepy town of Kumano in Hiroshima Prefecture. Likely, most of you have never heard of this hamlet before. Heck, I only recently learned about Hiroshima’s Kumano last year when…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/