HyogoArt & CraftsOno
Banshu Abacus
Most of Japan's abacuses; the wood, the turning and the rods together decide how the beads feel and sound.
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HyogoArt & CraftsHimeji
Leather of Himeji
Hides tanned with nothing but salt and rapeseed oil - an ancient method that grew up supplying armour.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Tetsujin Monument, Nagata
An earthquake-hit district raised an 18-metre robot from a local cartoonist's comic, paid for by residents.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Arima Onsen
Among Japan's oldest spas; its woven bamboo baskets are said to have been used by Hideyoshi at tea.
Sanda
Sanda Celadon
A kiln that copied Chinese celadon, extinct for a century and now being revived.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Kofukuji National Treasure Hall
The Ashura figure gives a god of war the face of a boy; made in light dry lacquer, it has no equal from the 8th century.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Kasuga Taisha Museum
So rich in Heian armour it is called a second Shosoin; three thousand donated lanterns stand in its grounds.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Akishinodera
The muse of the arts: her head is 8th-century dry lacquer, her body a Kamakura replacement - one figure of two eras.
NaraArt & Crafts
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Nara Prefectural Museum of Art
Grown from one collector's holdings of genre material - not only paintings but the costumes and ornaments in them.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Nara City Museum of Photography
For a photographer who spent fifty years on Nara alone; Kurokawa buried most of the building to protect the view.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Museum Yamato Bunkakan
Built by a railway company for its jubilee; Isoya Yoshida's low building rings a courtyard, and holds four National Treasures.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Neiraku Art Museum
Reached through a garden that borrows the Todaiji gate and the hills behind it as its own scenery.
Nara
Nara Inksticks
Over ninety percent of Japan's ink; soot and glue kneaded by foot and hand, then dried for half a year.
Nara
Nara Brushes
Said to descend from a method Kukai brought from Tang China; different animal hairs are sorted and blended in water.
Nara
Nara Ittobori Carving
Chisel facets are left raw and then painted in strong colour and gold - a technique born from shrine festival dolls.
NaraArt & CraftsNara
Akahada Ware
Reddish clay under a milky glaze, painted with the naive figures known as Nara-e.
Nara
Nara Bleached Ramie
Ramie cloth whitened by water and sun alone, supplied to the shogunate for priests' and samurai dress.
NaraArt & CraftsIkaruga
Horyuji Gallery of Temple Treasures
The impossibly slender Kudara Kannon, and a shrine once carpeted in beetle wings - the Asuka sense of beauty at its clearest.
NaraArt & Crafts
NaraArt & Crafts
NaraArt & CraftsAsuka
Nara Manyo Museum
A hundred and fifty-four living painters were each given one ancient poem to paint; below lies the workshop that cast Japan's first coins.
NaraArt & Crafts