MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Miyagi Museum of Art
One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.
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Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum
Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Kamei Museum
Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.
Sendai
Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
Sendai
Tamamushi Lacquer
Colour lacquer over silver powder, shifting like a jewel beetle's wing; developed for export in the 1930s.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Chest
Zelkova grain glowing through lacquer, dressed in hand-forged iron mounts; its size came from storing swords.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sculptures on Jozenji Street
Three bronzes by Italian sculptors stand in the median of a zelkova-lined boulevard.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Daikannon
A 100-metre white Kannon; visitors climb inside past 108 Buddhist figures.
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MiyagiArt & CraftsShiogama
Shiogama Shrine Museum
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Mutsu province, with the tools of its salt-making rites.
MiyagiArt & CraftsIshinomaki
Ogatsu Inkstone
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
MiyagiArt & CraftsKesennuma
Rias Ark Museum of Art
Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.
MiyagiArt & CraftsOsaki
Naruko Kokeshi
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
Osaki
Naruko Lacquerware
Wiped lacquer that keeps the grain visible, grown from the same woodturning trade as kokeshi.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Yajiro Kokeshi Village
Yajiro kokeshi wear thick lathe-turned rings on the head, recognisable at a glance.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Shiroishi Washi
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Steles
A shrine precinct crowded with inscribed stones, a small forest of calligraphy.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Museum of Modern Art
On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Tsuchizaki Float Festival
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Silver Filigree
Silver wire finer than hair, coiled into spirals - a mine technology turned into jewellery.
Akita
Yabase Doll
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Statue of Tatsuko
A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.