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Sand Museum
The only museum in the world devoted to sand sculpture. It is rebuilt to a new theme each year.
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Takumi Craft Shop
Across the street from the museum, selling not the collection but what is being made now - the same doctor's experiment.
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Watanabe Art Museum
Thirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.
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Inshu Washi
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
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Ushinoto Ware
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
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Nakai Kiln
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
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Umbrellas of the Shan-Shan Festival
Paper umbrellas hung with bells and foil, four thousand of them turned at once - a tool become a mass instrument of form.
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Kirin Lion Dance
A lion head with a single horn, found only in this corner of Japan and recognised as national heritage.
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Inshu Papermaking Workshops
Winter paper is made in freezing water; the speed and angle of the shaking mould decide how even the sheet will be.
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Heian Buddhas of Tottori
Single-block Heian images survive in mountain temples here, a record of how the provinces carved.
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Stonemasons of Tottori
Lanterns and guardian lions supplied to shrines across the region, each quarry's masons cutting differently.