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Extract from the Uchiko Travel Guides:
Some 45km northeast of Uwajima is the small town of
UCHIKO
, once an important centre for the Japanese
wax
industry. This wax,
moku-ro
, is made from the crushed berries of the sumac tree and is used for candles, polishes, in cosmetics, crayons, food, and even computer disks. The wealth generated by wax production has left Uchiko with many fine houses preserved in the Yokaichi district of the town, and there are several shops where craftsmen can still be seen making candles by hand. A picturesque six-hundred-metre stretch of nineteenth-century merchants' houses is promoted as an "Antique Road&q...
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