Heiwa Gokin

Heiwa Gokin is a casting company based in Takaoka, in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, a town with a long history of copperware and bronze. The business was founded in 1906 and has specialised since then in large-scale castings: bronze statues, monuments, Buddhist altar fittings and architectural metalwork, including work on the Takaoka Great Buddha in 1927.

The firm was incorporated as Heiwa Gokin Co., Ltd. in 1951 and today employs around 45 people across a main plant, a lost-wax foundry, east and west workshops and a design workshop. Lost-wax casting was introduced in 2005 to broaden the range of possible expression, and orders now arrive from companies, public bodies and artists across Japan. In 2023 the company added a design plant with NC routing and SLA 3D printing and opened Gallery Yoho.