AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Shiraiwa Ware
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
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AkitaArt & Crafts
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Itaya Basketry
Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households that became a traditional craft of Akita Prefecture.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons
Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Kawatsura Lacquerware
Finished by brush without polishing, this lacquer was always made for daily bowls, not display.
Odate
Odate Bentwood Ware
Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.
AkitaArt & CraftsOdate
Akita Cedar Cooperage
Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.
AkitaArt & CraftsDaisen
Naraoka Ware
Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.
AkitaArt & CraftsKazuno
Hanawa Bayashi
Ten floats of lacquer and gilt metal, called moving works of craft, play through the night.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Inukko Festival
Dogs modelled in rice flour and set in snow shrines, a form kept for four centuries.
Akita
Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi
A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Ranga
A school born when a samurai learned Western technique from Hiraga Gennai - and gone within a decade.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Furusato Mura
Museum, craft workshops and produce halls on one site - the province's handwork in one visit.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamagata Museum of Art
Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamadera Goto Museum
A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.
Yamagata
Yamagata Ironware
Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.
Yamagata
Hirashimizu Ware
Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Tendo City Art Museum
Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.
Tendo
Tendo Shogi Pieces
Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Dewazakura Art Museum
Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Yonezawa Textiles
Begun as a domain-rescue industry by Uesugi Yozan; silk dyed with safflower and gromwell, still yarn-dyed.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Narushima Ware
A former Uesugi domain kiln, revived after extinction; known for deep iron-black glazes.