GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Ichii Wood Carving
Carved from yew and never painted, so the wood's red and white heartwood does the work and deepens with age.
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GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Hida Shunkei Lacquer
Clear lacquer that reveals rather than hides the grain, so choosing the wood decides the finished piece.
GifuArt & CraftsHida
Hida City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Indigo Dyeing
Dyed in live indigo vats without chemicals, then rinsed in the winter river - a sight the town turns out for.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Food Samples of Gujo
Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.
GifuArt & CraftsOgaki
Moriya Tadashi Art Museum
Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.
GifuArt & CraftsKani
Furuta Oribe
A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.
Takayama
Hida Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.
Mino
Paper Crafts of Mino
A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Great Buddha
A great Buddha of bamboo, sutra-covered paper and lacquer - built not of bronze or wood but of paper.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Collecting landscape painting East and West, with a Rodin wing of 32 works including the Gates of Hell.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Shizuoka City Museum of Art
No collection of its own; a gallery set inside a station-front commercial building, in the middle of the commute.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum
For the Living National Treasure of stencil dyeing, in a stone building that ranks among Seiichi Shirai's best.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Bamboo Basketry
Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.
Shizuoka
Suruga Lacquerware
Begun when Ieyasu gathered craftsmen at his retirement capital, and carried from vessels into furniture.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsAtami
MOA Museum of Art
Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsItō
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art
Collects 20th-century art on one theme alone - the human figure; Japan's first museum devoted to that century.
Shimoda
Uehara Museum of Art
A Buddhist wing and a modern wing, built on decades of surveying the Buddhist sculpture of the peninsula.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMatsuzaki
Izu Chohachi Art Museum
For Chohachi Irie, who modelled pictures in plaster with a trowel; plasterers came from all Japan to build the museum itself.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMishima
Sano Art Museum
A private museum of Japanese swords, its lighting designed specifically to reveal the grain and temper line of a blade.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMishima
Mishima Taisha Treasure Hall
A Kamakura-period lacquer box, National Treasure: plum branches in gold powder with shell inlay, a summit of medieval craft.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsNagaizumi
Bernard Buffet Museum
Built for a living painter; the world's largest holding of Bernard Buffet, in a building by Kiyonori Kikutake.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Shiseido Art House
A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.