KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
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Nishijin Textiles
Named for the camp of a 15th-century war where the weavers regrouped; still built on small runs and divided labour.
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Kyo Yuzen Dyeing
Paste is drawn along every outline to keep the colours apart, leaving the fine white line that identifies the technique.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyo Ware and Kiyomizu Ware
Not tied to local clay: materials were brought in from everywhere to meet each commission, which is why the styles multiplied.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Karakami Woodblock Paper
Mica pressed from woodblocks onto paper by hand, so the pattern appears and vanishes as the light moves.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Sanjusangendo
A 120-metre hall holding 1,001 life-size Kannon; 124 survive from the 1100s, and no two faces are the same.
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Rokuharamitsuji
Six tiny Amida figures issue from the monk's mouth - the act of chanting itself rendered as sculpture.
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KyotoArt & CraftsŌyamazaki
Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.
KyotoArt & CraftsKizugawa
Iwafunedera and the Stone Buddhas of Tono
Kamakura-period Buddhas carved into roadside rock; the walk from temple to temple is itself the gallery.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Gion Festival Floats
Called a moving museum: Persian and Flemish textiles imported in the 1500s still hang on the floats every July.
KyotoArt & CraftsYosano
Tango Chirimen Silk Crepe
Silk hard-twisted then shrunk in hot water to raise its crinkled surface; most of Japan's undyed kimono cloth is woven here.
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Kyoto Dolls and Joinery
Head, hair, limbs and costume are each made by a different specialist - the division of labour on which nearly all Kyoto craft runs.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyoto Buddhist Implements
With every sect's head temple in one city, demand never stopped; more than ten trades touch a single altar.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts
On the site of the Sumitomo residence, with holdings of Chinese painting and stone Buddhas among the best in Japan.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka
Forty years from conception to opening; a black box hollowed out at its centre, with the galleries hung in the void.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Every gallery is underground; above ground stands only a steel facade, the building itself invisible.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Fujita Museum
Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Yuki Museum of Art
Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.
OsakaArt & CraftsIkeda
Itsuo Art Museum
The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.