Product Summary (Registration No.66)

Registration No.66 岩手木炭

Registered name (Transcription) : 岩手木炭（Iwate Mokutan） ,岩手切炭（Iwate Kirizumi） ,WATE CHARCOAL

Category of product

Class 40: Charcoals (Soft Charcoal)

Production Area

Iwate Prefecture

Registered Group

Corporation Iwate Prefecture Charcoal Society

Characteristics

IWATE CHARCOAL is firm and has long duration of combustion. Since carbon contains approximately 90% (national standard is above 75%), the smoke, the flame and the odor during combustion are suppressed, and the amount of ash after combustion is low. The quality of IWATE CHARCOAL is highly evaluated, and it has been awarded at the Festival of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries every year since 2006.

Link with the Production Area

Iwate Prefecture has rich forest resources, especially it has various broad-leaf trees such as oak. Thus, the area has thrived in charcoal production from the early times, and has been the largest charcoal production area in Japan since 1912. Since then, it has promoted and preserved its charcoal industry by developing unique charcoal-making kilns called “Iwate Gama” and “Iwate Tairyo Gama”.