Sakai
Sakai Blades
Sakai mass-produced the first Japanese guns; that forging skill turned into knives, and most professional chefs' blades still come from here.
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Sakai
Sakai Chusen Dyeing
Dye poured through stencilled paste so it soaks clean through - the cloth comes out identical on both faces.
OsakaArt & Crafts
OsakaArt & CraftsFujiidera
Domyoji Tenmangu
Objects said to be Michizane's own are National Treasures; the district was home to the clan that made the haniwa.
OsakaArt & CraftsIzumi
Kuboso Memorial Museum
Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
National Bunraku Theatre
Home of the puppet theatre born in Osaka; each head is carved by a specialist and repaired down the generations.
OsakaArt & CraftsSakai
Incense of Sakai
Incense making began where the aromatic woods landed; blending and forming are still separate trades.
OsakaArt & CraftsHigashiosaka
Small Factories of Osaka
Thousands of tiny workshops packed together, their division of labour working as if it were one large factory.
Yao
Kawachi Cotton
Thick cotton from the flood plain, tough enough for sailcloth and working clothes.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum
A sake brewer's collection of Asian antiquities, with a separate wing of Persian carpets.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.
HyogoArt & CraftsHimeji
Himeji City Museum of Art
An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
In the Tamba pottery district, running from medieval kilns to the present, and working with the studios next door.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
Tamba Ware
One of the six ancient kilns, and the only district in Japan where the kick wheel turns anticlockwise.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishinomiya
Otani Memorial Art Museum
Its annual exhibition of international picture-book illustration has made it Japan's centre for that field.
HyogoArt & CraftsAshiya
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History
The Gutai group began in this town; the museum holds the fullest local record of a movement that made throwing paint the work.
HyogoArt & CraftsItami
Itami City Museum of Art
Collects prints that criticise society, with an unusual concentration of Daumier lithographs.
HyogoArt & CraftsToyooka
Toyooka Willow Craft
A basket in the 8th-century Shosoin is said to come from here; willow weaving later made this Japan's luggage capital.
HyogoArt & CraftsMinamiawaji
Awaji Roof Tiles
Smoked at the end of firing so carbon turns them silver; the demon tiles on the ridge are the tiler's sculpture.
HyogoArt & CraftsMiki
Miki Hardware
Smiths gathered to rebuild a castle and stayed; the town became Japan's main source of chisels and planes.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishiwaki
Banshu Textiles
Yarn dyed before weaving, so the colour holds; most of Japan's yarn-dyed cotton comes from this valley.