Tsu
Heian Buddhas of Mie
On the road between the capital and Ise, so small temples here keep an unusual number of Heian images.
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ShigaArt & CraftsOtsu
Shiga Museum of Art
The first public museum in Japan to make art brut a collecting pillar - work by makers who never trained, taken seriously.
ShigaArt & CraftsMoriyama
Sagawa Art Museum
Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.
ShigaArt & CraftsOtsu
Otsu-e Folk Paintings
Mass-produced roadside paintings sold to travellers, drawn fast to fixed subjects - later hailed by Yanagi as folk art.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Ware
One of the six ancient kilns; feldspar in the coarse clay bursts white through the surface, and fire and ash mark each pot differently.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Studio, gallery and research on one hill, hosting foreign artists to work in Shigaraki clay for over thirty years.
ShigaArt & CraftsNagahama
Doganji Kannon
One of only seven National Treasure eleven-headed Kannon; villagers buried it in the earth to save it from war, and still keep it.
Nagahama
Kannon Villages of Kohoku
Where villagers, not monks, have kept the temples open and the images safe for centuries - an unusual form of custodianship.
Aisho
Omi Jofu Ramie Cloth
Fine summer ramie whose kasuri patterns are made by pressing dye onto the threads with a comb.
Otsu
Buddhist Implements of Otsu
Serving the demand of Mt Hiei and Kyoto, workshops here still handle single stages of the trade.
ShigaArt & CraftsHikone
Hikone Butsudan
Armourers turned to altars in peacetime; seven separate trades now build each one.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Tanuki
Spread nationwide after an imperial visit; each of the eight things the badger carries stands for a virtue.
Nagahama
Shrine Cabinets of Kohoku
The cabinets that house the Kannon images survive village by village - the container itself a work of craft.
Omihachiman
Reed Screens of Omi
Lakeside reeds cut and woven into screens and thatch - wetland management and craft as a single job.
ShigaArt & CraftsHino
Hino Festival Floats
Floats decorated with merchant money, some hung with textiles brought from overseas.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Sen-oku Hakukokan
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Raku Museum
Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Nomura Art Museum
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.