Tanaka-Iga Butsugu (田中伊雅仏具) is a Japanese company that produces

Buddhist Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...

goods, including

butsudan A , sometimes spelled butudan, is a shrine commonly found in temples and homes in Japanese Buddhist cultures. A ''butsudan'' is either a defined, often ornate platform or simply a wooden cabinet sometimes crafted with doors that enclose and p ...

shrines that are placed in many traditional Japanese homes. It is one of the oldest companies on Earth, being founded in the ninth century and operating continuously since. The company produces sophisticated and expensive objects and now uses 3-D computer mock-ups of complex items before production, like the altar and other furniture temples.

History

In approximately 885 C.E. in the

Heian period The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kammu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means in Japanese. It is a ...

, Tanaka-Iga was founded in

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. Due to its age, it is the oldest company selling Buddhist religious items. , it is based at Manjuji Nishinotoin in

Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. First established in 1879, it has been merged and split, and took on its present boundaries in 1955, with the establishment of a separate Minami-ku. Kyoto Tower a ...

. Its 70th-generation president is Masakazu Tanaka.

References

External links

Official website
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