YamanashiShrines & TemplesKofu
Takeda Jinja
It enshrines Takeda Shingen. Built on the site of the Tsutsujigasaki residence, it recalls that Shingen raised no castle, holding that people were his castle and his stone walls.
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Kanazakura Jinja
Its sacred treasure is rock crystal, and it is held to be the origin of crystal working here. It draws prayers for wealth.
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Kai Zenkoji
Shingen founded it by moving the principal image of Zenkoji in Shinano. Its main hall is among the largest in eastern Japan.
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YamanashiShrines & TemplesKofu
Koshu Inden
Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.
YamanashiCastles & HistoryKofu
Tsutsujigasaki
It is said Shingen raised no castle, holding that people were his castle and his stone walls. The site of his residence is now Takeda Jinja.
YamanashiContemporary Art
YamanashiCastles & HistoryKofu
Maizuru Park
Stone walls survive and the Inari turret has been restored, right in front of Kofu station.
YamanashiFestivals
YamanashiArt & CraftsKofu
Koshu Inden
Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.
YamanashiArt & CraftsKofu
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
Opened as 'the Millet museum'; a pioneering case of a regional museum collecting one European school in depth.
Kofu
Koshu Crystal Carving
Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.
Kofu
Yamanashi Jewelry Museum
A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.
Kofu
Fujimura Memorial Hall
An 1875 pseudo-Western schoolhouse with balcony and drum tower - local carpenters' reading of Western form.
YamanashiMuseumsKofu
Yamanashi Archaeological Museum
Run together with the keyhole tomb beside it, and strong in the over-ornamented pottery of the middle Jomon.
YamanashiArchitectureKofu
Takeda Clan Residence Site
Shingen ruled from a square residence, not a castle - his saying that people are the castle, left in the ground.
YamanashiMuseumsKofu
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature
In the same park as the art museum, showing manuscripts as much for the hand as for the text.
Kofu
Modern Architecture of Kofu
From pseudo-Western schools to postwar modernism, Kofu keeps the layers of a provincial city's modernity.
Kofu
Jewellery Quarter of Kofu
A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.
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Stone Walls of Kofu Castle
The keep is gone; only the rough-stacked stone walls remain, rising in the middle of the modern city.
Kofu
Joinery of Kai
Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.