Edo / Kyoto · Edo period

Machibori ("town carving") is the worldly counterpart to the Gotō orthodoxy — independent townsman artists who broke from the formal canon to carve naturalistic, pictorial fittings for a rising merchant class. Rooted in the Nara school and flowering through Yokoya, Hamano, and Yanagawa, machibori brought painterly freedom and the bold takabori-iroe of the Edo period.

Editorial grouping — a curated selection of related schools, not an official classification.