AichiArt & CraftsToyota
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Held to be Yoshio Taniguchi's finest work: white volumes over water and lawn, the route framing view after view.
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AichiArt & CraftsIchinomiya
Migishi Setsuko Memorial Museum
For a painter who kept working in an era that gave women little room, on the site of the house where she was born.
Ichinomiya
Bishu Wool Textiles
Most of Japan's woollen cloth is woven here; the district supplies luxury suiting worldwide alongside Italy.
AichiArt & CraftsHekinan
Fujii Tatsukichi Museum of Modern Art
For an artist who moved freely between craft and painting; small, but nationally respected for its exhibitions.
AichiArt & CraftsTakahama
Takahama Kawara Museum
Japan's only museum of roof tiles, re-presenting an industrial product as form.
AichiArt & CraftsHanda
Kamezaki Festival Floats
Floats hauled down onto the beach itself, their carvings and embroidered hangings standing on the sand.
Okazaki
Mikawa Buddhist Altars
Built inside like a miniature temple, finished by five separate trades working in sequence.
AichiArt & CraftsNagakute
Meito Art Museum
Narrowed to modern Nihonga and especially bijinga, with a substantial group of works by Uemura Shoen.
AichiArt & CraftsToyokawa
Toyokawa Inari
A Buddhist temple enshrining a fox deity; a thousand donated stone foxes stand massed in one corner.
Okazaki
Stonemasons of Okazaki
Masons summoned to build the castle stayed; the town became Japan's source of stone lanterns and figures.
AichiArt & CraftsToyohashi
Oni Festival of Toyohashi
A red demon and a tengu do battle and scatter white powder; the masks are repaired and handed down.
MieArt & CraftsTsu
Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Systematic in Soga Shohaku, the eccentric Edo ink painter who stayed long in this province and left his work behind.
MieArt & CraftsTsu
Sekisui Museum
Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.
MieArt & CraftsSuzuka
Ise Katagami Stencils
Stencils for dyeing kimono, sometimes cut with over a hundred holes per square centimetre - admired abroad as art in themselves.
Suzuka
Suzuka Inksticks
Soot from burnt rapeseed oil kneaded with glue; the fineness of the particles decides the ink's colour and bleed.
MieArt & CraftsYokkaichi
Banko Ware
Eighty percent of Japan's clay pots; the district developed a heat-proof body, and its unglazed teapots fire purple-brown.
MieArt & CraftsKuwana
Kuwana Ironware
Casting since the Edo period, from cooking pots to - today - a large share of Japan's manhole covers.
MieArt & CraftsKuwana
Kuwana Senbazuru
Multiple cranes folded from one sheet, still joined; a 1797 book records 49 different configurations.
MieArt & CraftsKomono
Paramita Museum
Permanently shows Masuo Ikeda's late ceramic Heart Sutra series, in a sculpture garden facing the Suzuka range.
Matsusaka
Matsusaka Cotton
Striped cotton that swept Edo: sober enough to slip past sumptuary law, but luxurious in the quality of its thread.
MieArt & CraftsIga
Iga Braided Cords
Silk threads crossed on a wooden stand; the craft moved from sword cords to kimono sashes and survived.
Kameyama
Candles of Kameyama
Candle making began in the Showa period and developed as a local industry; the Japanese candle is wound from paper and rush pith.
Ise
Gikakushi Paper of Ise
Paper lacquered and embossed to pass as leather, made for pilgrims, lost, and recently reconstructed.