Goshogawara
Tsugaru Kanayama Ware
Unglazed stoneware coloured only by wood ash, using local clay and earth dug from a former reservoir.
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Hirakawa
Hirakawa Neputa Festival
An August festival in Hirakawa. Among Tsugaru's Neputa, this one fields the large fan-shaped floats.
AomoriArt & CraftsFukaura
Engakuji Treasure Hall
Ship votive paintings hung beside framed topknots cut off in thanks for surviving the sea - folk art produced by maritime faith.
Aomori
Yu-sa Asamushi
A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.
AomoriArt & CraftsHachinohe
Tanesashi Coast
The coast where Kaii Higashiyama found the subject of his best-known painting - rock, turf and sea in bands.
Hachinohe
Nanbu Hishizashi
The counterpart to Tsugaru kogin: counted on even threads, so its diamonds are built on a different geometry.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru Lacquerware
Nicknamed the fool's lacquer for its 48 coats, ground back to reveal a mottling made by eggshell and rapeseed.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.
AomoriArt & CraftsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Workshop
Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Iwate Museum of Art
Built around three artists from Iwate: the avant-gardist Yorozu Tetsugoro, the urban painter Shunsuke Matsumoto, and the marble sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
Hanamaki
Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum of Art
It stands in the hometown of a painter who helped pioneer Japan's reception of Fauvism and Cubism. From the hill in Tsuchizawa, you can see the same mountains he painted.
Morioka
Fukazawa Koko Museum
Watercolours of wild flowers, shown in a former bank on the Nakatsu river.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Nambu Ironware
Four centuries of cast ironware; the hailstone pattern on each kettle is punched by hand.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Handi-Works Square
Fourteen workshops under one roof, where visitors watch and try the crafts themselves.
IwateArt & CraftsHiraizumi
Chusonji Konjikido
A hall entirely covered in gold leaf, inlaid with mother-of-pearl - the sum of Heian craft in one building.
Iwate
Ishigami-no-oka Museum of Art
Stone sculptures scattered over a hillside, framed against the Kitakami mountains.
Ninohe
Tekiseisha
In the town that taps over 70 percent of Japan's lacquer, including the sap used to repair national treasures.
IwateArt & CraftsHachimantai
Appi Lacquerware Workshop
A workshop that revived the lost Appi lacquer tradition, working from raw wood to final coat.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Hachimangu Treasures
Armour dedicated by the Nambu lords, and the carved heads of the autumn festival floats.
Ninohe
Nambu Chest
Chests of zelkova wood fitted with hand-forged iron mounts, made by two trades working in tandem.