ShimaneArt & CraftsTsuwano
Anno Art Museum
For a picture-book artist known worldwide for books without words, in a tile-roofed building by Hiroshi Naito.
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ShimaneArt & CraftsHamada
Hamada Children's Museum of Art
Collects and exhibits children's own drawings, and does not separate the making from the looking.
ShimaneArt & CraftsIzumo
Shussai Kiln
Started by five young men, guided by the mingei leaders, and still making unsigned everyday ware by policy.
Okinoshima
Rengee Mai of Oki
An ancient court dance lost on the mainland but preserved on the island, its masks and robes medieval.
ShimaneArt & CraftsOkinoshima
Bull Sumo of Oki
Said to have begun to console an exiled emperor, and still ended in a deliberate draw.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Sweets and Tea of Matsue
A tea-master lord's taste made this one of Japan's three great confectionery towns; the moulds are carvings in themselves.
Hamada
Mask and Costume Makers of Iwami
Masks are built from layered paper to stay light for violent dancing; the embroidered robes can cost millions of yen.
ShimaneArt & CraftsTsuwano
Heron Dance of Tsuwano
Dancers wear heron wings in a form that died out in Kyoto and survived only here.
Okinoshima
Boatbuilding of Oki
Boats built from island timber, the curve of the hull adjusted to the sea each village works.
Matsue
Shinto Images of Izumo
Shinto deities carved in human form survive here - made with Buddhist technique but in different dress and mood.
Kurashiki
Kojima Denim
A tabi and school-uniform town that made Japan's first jeans; its old shuttle looms now supply the world.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kurashiki Canvas
Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.
OkayamaArt & CraftsOkayama
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
Built around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.
OkayamaArt & CraftsOkayama
Hayashibara Museum of Art
Built on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.
OkayamaArt & CraftsOkayama
Yumeji Art Museum
In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
OkayamaArt & CraftsOkayama
Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
OkayamaArt & CraftsBizen
Bizen Ware
The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.
Bizen
Bizen Ware Museum
A museum centered on Bizen ware, ceramics and art, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.
OkayamaArt & CraftsNagi
Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.
OkayamaArt & CraftsTsuyama
Sakushu Kasuri
Kasuri farmers once wove for themselves; the craft died out and has been brought back.
OkayamaArt & CraftsTakahashi
Fukiya Bengara Museum
The making of red iron-oxide pigment, which went into Kutani porcelain and Wajima lacquer alike.
Ibara
Denchu Art Museum
For a sculptor who carved until he was 107, and who past a hundred bought thirty years' worth of timber.
OkayamaArt & CraftsIbara
Hanatori Otsuka Museum
Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKasaoka
Chikkyo Art Museum
For a painter of the Inland Sea in high-keyed colour, and the museum lets you watch him leave his teacher's manner behind.