About Edomugs

Two hundred years ago, ukiyo-e prints were not treasures. They were cheap. A single sheet cost about the same as a bowl of noodles. People bought them the way we buy a poster, looked at them, and eventually threw them away. The ones that survived did so mostly by accident.

We think that is the right spirit for a mug.

Edomugs prints real Edo-period woodblock art onto cups you actually use. A sumo wrestler mid-bout. Dancers at a summer festival. Kuniyoshi's giant skeleton, drawn in 1844, still one of the strangest images in Japanese art. A woman by the river, painted with more care than anyone thought a throwaway print deserved.

We research each work before it becomes a product — who made it, when, and what was happening around it. The originals are in the public domain, which means these images belong to everyone. We just think they belong on a kitchen shelf as much as behind museum glass.

Everything is printed to order in small runs. Nothing sits in a warehouse.

If you want to know the story behind a particular design, write to us. We enjoy that part.

hello@edomugs.com