YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Churenji and the Living Buddha
The mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.
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YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
YamagataArt & Crafts
YamagataArt & CraftsShinjo
Shinjo Festival Floats
Twenty floats rebuilt from scratch each year, each staging a scene from kabuki in three dimensions.
Tsuruoka
Tatekawa School Carvings
Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.
Shirataka
Miyama Washi
Hand-made paper of pure kozo bark, once reserved for the Uesugi domain.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Yonezawa Armour
Armour and swords said to be Uesugi Kenshin's own, kept in the shrine treasury.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Hanagasa Festival Hats
Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.
Yamagata
Yamagata Forged Blades
Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Tsuruoka Silk
One of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.
FukushimaArt & CraftsFukushima
Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKitashiobara
Morohashi Museum of Modern Art
One of the world's largest Dali collections - 340 works - assembled by a single businessman at the foot of Mt Bandai.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Lacquerware
Begun when Gamo Ujisato brought lacquerers from Omi; known for auspicious motifs and sprinkled gold.
FukushimaArt & CraftsAizuwakamatsu
Akabeko and Aizu Papier-mache
A red papier-mache ox with a nodding head, made to ward off plague - the colour itself is the charm.
FukushimaArt & CraftsAizumisato
Aizu Hongo Ware
One of Tohoku's oldest pottery districts, and rare in firing both earthenware and porcelain.
FukushimaArt & Crafts
FukushimaArt & CraftsIwaki
Iwaki City Art Museum
A pioneering case of a regional city collecting contemporary art, strong in American work of its own era.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKoriyama
Koriyama City Museum of Art
Unusually for Japan, built around British modern art, on a hill facing Mt Adatara.
FukushimaArt & CraftsNihonmatsu
Oyama Chusaku Museum
The personal museum of a Nihonga painter and Order of Culture laureate, born in this castle town.
Nihonmatsu
Nihonmatsu Chrysanthemum Dolls
Life-size figures clothed in living chrysanthemums, which keep blooming and changing through the show.
FukushimaArt & CraftsKoriyama
Miharu Papier-mache
Four workshops making Miharu horses in the same hamlet since the 1700s.
FukushimaArt & CraftsShowa
Karamushi Textile Village
A village that grows, strips, spins and weaves ramie - the fibre behind Niigata's finest hemp cloth.
FukushimaArt & CraftsSoma
Soma Koma Ware
A domain kiln passed from father to single son, its bowls painted with running horses under a crackled glaze.