IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Mizuhiki
Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.
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FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
Echizen
Echizen Blades
Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.
Echizen
Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.
FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Ware
One of Japan's six ancient kilns; unglazed, its surface coloured only by falling ash, and once shipped all along the north coast.
FukuiArt & CraftsSabae
Echizen Lacquerware
Said to be 1,500 years old, and now making 80 percent of Japan's commercial lacquerware - lacquer as working tableware.
FukuiArt & CraftsObama
Wakasa Lacquer
Eggshell, shell and pine needles are buried in the lacquer, then ground back to reveal the pattern.
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Wakasa Agate Carving
Agate heated until its colour changes, then carved and polished - a technique surviving only here.
Obama
Old Buddhas of Obama
Wakasa lay on the road between the capital and the northern sea; small temples here keep an unusual density of Heian Buddhas.
FukuiArt & CraftsFukui
Shakudani Stone
Quarried for 1,500 years and soft enough to carve; wet, the stone deepens to blue-green.
Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas of Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.
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.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum
The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
The world's only museum devoted to Keith Haring; the route runs from a black tilted entrance out into light.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Kiyoharu Art Colony
On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.
Fujikawaguchiko
Itchiku Kubota Art Museum
The home of a dyer who independently revived tsujigahana dyeing, which appeared from the Muromachi to Momoyama periods; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.
Fujikawaguchiko
Yo Yuki Museum
Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.
Fujikawaguchiko
Kawaguchiko Museum of Art
Collecting one mountain only; photographers who spent lifetimes on Fuji can be compared side by side.
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.
YamanashiArt & CraftsNirasaki
Nirasaki Omura Art Museum
Founded by a Nobel laureate with his own funds, and collecting women artists exclusively - rare in Japan.
YamanashiArt & CraftsMinobu
Nishijima Washi
Paper for calligraphy, made since the 1500s and still varied sheet by sheet to control how ink bleeds.
YamanashiArt & CraftsIchikawamisato
Paper and Fireworks of Ichikawa
A paper town that also makes fireworks - the shells are wound from paper, so the two trades grew together.