GifuShrines & TemplesTakayama
Hida Kokubunji
A three-storey pagoda and a great ginkgo said to be over 1,200 years old. A place where the skill of the Hida carpenters is handed down.
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Sakurayama Hachimangu
The stage of the autumn Takayama festival. Its float rite is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, and gathers the whole skill of the Hida carpenters.
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Hie Jinja (Takayama)
The shrine of the spring Takayama festival, the Sanno festival. Its float rite is UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Hida Kokubunji Sanjunoto
The great ginkgo in its grounds is said to be 1,200 years old.
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Takayama Jinya
The only Edo-period magistrate's office still standing anywhere in Japan, proof that Hida was ruled directly by the shogunate.
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GifuFestivalsTakayama
Takayama Matsuri
Mechanical puppets on the floats. UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Takayama Festival Floats
Floats into which the Hida craftsmen poured everything - carving, lacquer, metalwork and clockwork puppets.
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Kusakabe Folk Museum
A merchant house whose massive beam frame was deliberately left exposed to display the Hida carpenters' skill.
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Yoshijima Family Residence
A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.
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Ichii Wood Carving
Carved from yew and never painted, so the wood's red and white heartwood does the work and deepens with age.
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Hida Shunkei Lacquer
Clear lacquer that reveals rather than hides the grain, so choosing the wood decides the finished piece.
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Carpenters of Hida
In the Nara period Hida paid its tax in carpenters sent to the capital; that lineage runs through everything built here.
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Hida Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.