YamanashiArt & CraftsFujikawaguchiko
The Five Lakes and Fuji's Viewpoints
The exact spots Hokusai and Hiroshige drew can still be stood on, and the compositions checked against the view.
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YamanashiArt & CraftsTsuru
Yamura and Gunnai Textiles
Thin lustrous silk that sold in Edo for linings and umbrellas, woven in this valley.
Koshu
Stonemasons of Enzan
Stone that weathers to rust-red, quarried for gardens; the craft includes choosing and setting it, not only cutting.
Minobu
Buddhist Implements of Minobu
A temple-gate trade in Buddhist implements, the beads turned and the tassels braided by separate hands.
Kofu
Jewellery Quarter of Kofu
A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Mt Kaikoma and Mountain Worship
A white granite peak worshipped as a body of the god, its climbing path punctuated by stone shrines.
Fuefuki
Round Stone Deities of Kai
In this basin the roadside deity is not carved into a figure but is simply a rounded stone - a form found almost nowhere else.
Kofu
Joinery of Kai
Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Rebuilt beside Zenkoji, its roof opened free to the public as a 'landscape museum' framing the town and mountains.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Higashiyama Kaii Gallery
Holds the 970 works Higashiyama gave to the province, in a Taniguchi building reflected in still water.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Kitano Museum of Art
A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsumoto
Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Yayoi Kusama was born here; her polka dots run from the permanent gallery out to the sculptures and even the vending machines.
Matsumoto
Craft Fair Matsumoto
The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsukawa, Nagano
Chihiro Art Museum Azumino
For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Rokuzan Art Museum
For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Toyoshina Museum of Modern Art
Sculpture set inside a Romanesque-styled building, centred on Hiroatsu Takata, who studied under Rodin's shadow.
Azumino
Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi
A picture-book gallery in a pine wood, showing the brushwork that printing always loses.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
NaganoArt & CraftsOkaya
Ilf Museum of Art
For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.
NaganoArt & Crafts
NaganoArt & CraftsUeda
KAITA EPITAPH
Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
Ueda
Ueda Tsumugi
Said to last three generations; its striped and checked colourways follow local conventions.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Hokusaikan
Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.