TokyoArt & CraftsHachijo
Kihachijo Silk
Silk dyed yellow, brown and black using only the island's own plants, from dye pot to loom.
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TokyoArt & CraftsMusashimurayama
Murayama Oshima Tsumugi
Kasuri patterns dyed by clamping threads between carved boards - an Amami technique reworked near Tokyo.
TokyoArt & CraftsShinjuku
Tokyo Komon Stencil Dyeing
Stencil patterns so fine the cloth reads as plain from a distance; still dyed along the Kanda river.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
Tokyo Silverware
A single silver sheet raised into a vessel by hammer, a line of Edo metalwork still worked in backstreet studios.
TokyoArt & CraftsTaito
Edo Woodblock Printing
Designer, carver and printer each do their part; the colours are still layered block by block as they were.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHayama
The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.
KanagawaArt & CraftsKamakura
MOMAT Kamakura Annex
An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.
KanagawaArt & CraftsKamakura
Great Buddha of Kamakura
An 11-metre bronze Buddha that lost its hall to a tsunami; sitting in the open, its casting seams are visible inside and out.
Kamakura
Kaburaki Kiyokata Memorial Art Museum
On the site of the home of Kiyokata, the last great painter of bijinga, who drew the ordinary streets of Meiji Tokyo.
KanagawaArt & CraftsKamakura
Kamakura-bori Lacquer Carving
Wood carved first, then lacquered - a Japanese answer to Chinese carved lacquer, arrived at by splitting the trades.
KanagawaArt & CraftsYokohama
Yokohama Museum of Art
Among the first Japanese museums to collect photography seriously, and the symmetrical anchor of the Minato Mirai axis.
KanagawaArt & CraftsKawasaki
Taro Okamoto Museum of Art
In Taro Okamoto's home city, where his 30-metre Tower of Mother breaks out above the trees.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHiratsuka
Hiratsuka Museum of Art
Collects around a single theme - the light of this coast - and the artists who worked in it.
KanagawaArt & CraftsChigasaki
Chigasaki City Museum of Art
A small museum in a pine grove, building the record of a town where writers and painters settled.
KanagawaArt & CraftsFujisawa
Fujisawa Ukiyo-e Museum
Prints narrowed to three local subjects, so the changing way one place was seen can be followed.
KanagawaArt & CraftsFujisawa
Yugyoji Treasure Hall
The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.
Odawara
Odawara Lacquerware
Turned bowls of Hakone timber finished so the grain still shows - lacquer that displays the wood, not itself.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Pola Museum of Art
One of Japan's great Impressionist collections, with 80 percent of the building buried to spare the forest.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures over seven hectares, each set against the mountain skyline.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Okada Museum of Art
Holds Utamaro's Deep Snow at Fukagawa, lost for seventy years, in one of Japan's largest private museums.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Lalique Museum Hakone
An actual Orient Express carriage with Lalique's glass panels, entered rather than viewed through a case.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Narukawa Art Museum
Four thousand works of contemporary Nihonga, and a window framing Mt Fuji across the lake by design.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Hakone Marquetry
Geometric patterns built from blocks of differently coloured woods and shaved into veneer - no dye is ever used.
KanagawaArt & CraftsHakone
Honma Yosegi Museum
Opened by a family of marquetry makers, tracing how the patterns grew more complex over generations.