Created by Masaaki HiroiIn these days of eye-popping game consoles with seemingly endless applications to amuse yourself, you may think tops — spinning tops — have been relegated to the dustbin of history. If so, you are in for a happy surprise with Edo spinning tops. Besides being an ideal item to add a Japanese…
Masaaki Hiroi’s creativity keeps spinning Masaaki Hiroi’s extraordinary passion for making original Japanese Edo Spinning Tops started when he was in his 30s and has created over 4,000 different types of Edo Tops to date. So what exactly is Edo Spinning Tops and what’s so unique about it? Spinning Tops that flourished during Edo Period…
