Craftsmen carefully shape and lacquer a wooden lunch box, ensuring every detail is refined with precision. From selecting high-quality wood to applying the final coat, each step is completed with ...

The company already made square metal meal containers, the kind workers carried, and some had started to show up in the hands of school kids (lunch pail, meet lunch box). But these containers were ...

The wooden oval lunch box he has been using for almost a decade has some marks from getting poked with a fork, but it is still usable. It’s nice to see his growth through a bento box!

Three-tiered lacquered wooden lunch boxes, which originated in Tokushima Prefecture during the late Edo Period (1603-1868), are having a revival thanks to a trio of collaborators.