Maniwa
Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.
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Okayama
Ujobori Carving
Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.
Kurashiki
Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.
Setouchi
Bizen Swords
The largest of Japan's five sword traditions; roughly half of all National Treasure blades were forged here.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kojima Torajiro
The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
Beside a designated scenic garden, and built around artists connected to Hiroshima and the crafts of Asia.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHiroshima
Hiroshima Museum of Art
Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsHatsukaichi
Miyajima Woodcraft
Said to begin with rice paddles shaped after a goddess's lute; the trade covers both turning and carving.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsOnomichi
Onomichi City Museum of Art
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsFukuyama
Fukuyama Museum of Art
Unusual in Japan for collecting 20th-century Italian art, and standing next to the castle.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsMiyoshi
Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
Miyoshi
Miyoshi Clay Dolls
Called shining dolls for their gloss; one family still makes them, using moulds from the Edo period.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsKumano
Kumano Brushes
Eight in ten Japanese brushes; the hair tips are never cut, so the point forms itself.
Kure
Kawajiri Brushes
Hair blended in water rather than dry; a brush town specialising in calligraphy alongside Kumano.
Fuchu
Fuchu Furniture
A wedding-furniture town where the trades divide the work and compete on the precision of the joinery.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsFukuyama
Bingo Kasuri
One of Japan's three great kasuri districts; its toughness made it workwear, and the town later turned to denim.
Fukuyama
Fukuyama Koto
Over sixty percent of Japan's koto; the sound is cut into the paulownia body as a pattern of grooves inside the lid.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsOnomichi
Hirayama Ikuo Museum of Art
Born on this island and a survivor of the bomb; the museum runs from his boyhood sketches to his last large works.
Akitakata
Geihoku Kagura
Descended from the Iwami tradition, with serpents and demons whose robes cost millions and whose masks are made of paper.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsOnomichi
Onomichi in Film
Filmed again and again from Ozu onward; the same slope and level crossing keep reappearing in different decades.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima Butsudan
Gilded altars grown from a strongly Pure Land region, finished by six separate trades in sequence.
Hiroshima
Prints of Hiroshima
Printmaking was chosen to carry the memory of the bomb precisely because prints can be multiplied and sent out.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsYamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.