ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art
In the castle park, with prints and maps of the Tokaido highway through this town.
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ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Akino Fuku Museum
For a Nihonga painter who kept returning to India; Fujimori built it of earth and paper, and visitors walk it barefoot.
Hamamatsu
Enshu Textiles
One of Japan's three great cotton districts, where mills deliberately keep old shuttle looms to weave a slower, thicker cloth.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Kites of the Hamamatsu Festival
A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShimada
Shitoro Ware
One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Kakegawa Kuzufu Cloth
Fibre fermented out of kudzu vine and woven into a silk-like cloth, once used for sliding doors and wall covering.
Fujieda
Kilns and Dyeing of Fujieda
Kiln sites scattered along a river whose clay fed them, and whose water fed the dye houses too.
Shizuoka
Woodwork of Shizuoka
Craftsmen gathered to build the shrine and stayed; the woodworking line runs from altars to furniture to model kits.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Instrument Making of Hamamatsu
It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
A systematic 20th-century collection, holding one of the very few Klimt oils in Japan.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Nagoya City Art Museum
Four collecting pillars, including a rare Japanese holding of the Mexican muralists, in a Kurokawa building.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Tokugawa Art Museum
The Owari Tokugawa treasury intact, including the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls - shown a few scenes a year, each November.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Atsuta Jingu Treasure Hall
The treasury of the shrine of the sacred sword, holding over 6,000 dedicated blades shown in rotation.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
Three centuries of French painting hung in order, with a room where visitors may sit on Galle and Majorelle furniture.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Furukawa Art Museum
Its annex is a fine sukiya house, where tea is served looking into the garden.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Kuwayama Art Museum
Tea utensils rearranged each season according to the logic of a tea gathering, not of art history.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Showa Art Museum
Edo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Arimatsu Shibori Tie-Dye
Over a hundred distinct resist techniques - tied, stitched, clamped - grown as souvenirs for travellers on the Tokaido.
Nagoya
Nagoya Yuzen and Black Crest Dyeing
A restrained, near-monochrome yuzen; the related craft dyes a kimono black while leaving the family crest white.
AichiArt & CraftsAma
Owari Cloisonne
Silver wires outline the design on copper before the enamel is laid in; Meiji exports made it famous worldwide.
AichiArt & CraftsSeto
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
Among Japan's largest public ceramics museums, running from the ancient Sanage kilns to the present, with kiln sites on the grounds.
AichiArt & Crafts
AichiArt & CraftsTokoname
Tokoname Ware
The oldest and largest of the six ancient kilns; its iron-rich clay fires vermilion, and its teapots are said to soften the tea.
AichiArt & CraftsInuyama
Inuyama Festival Floats
Three-tiered floats with clockwork puppets performing on top, each hung with 365 lanterns after dark.