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NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery
A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Karuizawa New Art Museum
A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.
NaganoArt & CraftsShiojiri
Kiso Lacquerware
Iron-rich local earth in the ground coat makes it exceptionally tough; it grew as souvenirs for travellers on the highway.
Nagiso
Nagiso Woodturning
Kiso hardwoods turned on the lathe and often left unlacquered, so choosing the timber is the real skill.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuzaka
Suzaka Classic Museum
In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.
Nakano
Nakano Clay Dolls
Two families keep two separate moulds and palettes in the same town - an unusual survival of parallel lineages.
NaganoArt & CraftsIna
Stone Carvers of Takato
Takato's masons travelled the country carving; one of them, Sadaji Moriya, recorded 336 images in his lifetime.
Nagano
Togakushi Bamboo Craft
Baskets woven from bamboo bent by snow, made at the gate of a mountain of ascetics for the pilgrims who came.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Shinshu Shinmachi Museum of Art
A small municipal museum in the hills, centred on the painter Ikuma Arishima.
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NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Roadside Deities of Azumino
Over five hundred paired stone deities stand along these roads - holding hands, pouring wine, no two alike.
Iida
Puppetry of Iida
Puppet theatre took root in these farming villages; their stages survive, and the puppet heads are still repaired and used.
Suwa
Glass and Precision Industry of Suwa
A precision-machinery town whose skills flowed sideways into glass - industry and craft at close range.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
One of the world's major holdings of Odilon Redon, including his great sequences of black lithographs.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Lanterns
Mino paper stretched so thin the bamboo ribs show through when the lantern is lit.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Paper Umbrellas
Most of Japan's paper umbrellas came from here; looked up into, the threads binding the ribs form a geometric pattern.
GifuArt & CraftsTajimi
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.
GifuArt & Crafts
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Hon-Minoshi Paper
Paper made here survives in the 8th-century Shosoin; fibres crossed both ways make it thin, even and hard to tear.
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition
Paper light sculptures set out along the old street, with the town's own lamps switched off for the night.
GifuArt & CraftsSeki
Enku Buddhas
The monk Enku carved with a hatchet as he walked Japan; over 5,000 survive, smiling out of raw split wood.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Takayama Festival Floats
Floats into which the Hida craftsmen poured everything - carving, lacquer, metalwork and clockwork puppets.