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Risshakuji (Yamadera)
Halls built onto the rock of the mountain. It is 1,015 steps to the innermost hall. This is where Basho wrote of the cicadas' voices soaking into the rock.
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Zao Jizoson
A Jizo standing in the field of frost-covered trees. In winter it is buried in snow, with only its face showing.
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Godaido (Yamadera)
A platform thrust out from the cliff. The finest view at Yamadera.
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Yamadera Okunoin
The hall at the top of 1,015 steps. The valley of the Tachiya River opens out below.
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Zao Snow Monsters
The snow monsters. One of the few large fields of frost-covered trees anywhere in the world.
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Yamagata Museum of Art
Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.
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Yamagata Prefectural Museum
Home to the National Treasure Jomon Goddess: 45 cm of clay with no face, all form.
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Former Saiseikan Hospital
A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.
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Mogami Yoshiaki Museum
The helmet and records of Mogami Yoshiaki, showing the flamboyance of Momoyama armour.
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Yamadera Risshakuji
Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.
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Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum
Manuscripts from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, shown as calligraphy.
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Yamadera Goto Museum
A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.
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Yamagata Biennale
A biennial run by the local art university, taking over empty shops and temples.
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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.
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Yamagata Ironware
Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.
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Hirashimizu Ware
Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.
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Hanagasa Festival Hats
Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.
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Yamagata Forged Blades
Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.