FukushimaArt & CraftsNamie
Obori Soma Ware
Double-walled cups that stay cool to hold; every kiln was evacuated after 2011 and is rebuilding elsewhere.
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FukushimaArt & CraftsKawamata
Kawamata Silk
Weaving thread one-sixth the width of a human hair - a small district holding a world record for thinness.
Shirakawa
Shirakawa Daruma
Its whole face is built from lucky symbols: crane eyebrows, turtle whiskers, and pine, bamboo and plum in the sideburns and beard, to a design commissioned by the local lord.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Cotton
Thick striped cotton the domain spread as farmers' workwear, each district with its own stripe.
Aizuwakamatsu
Aizu Painted Candles
Flowers painted onto candles for altars in winter, when no real blossom could be found.
Mishima
Okuaizu Woven Craft
Three weaving traditions using mountain vines and grasses, kept alive as winter handwork.
Fukushima
Stone Guardians of Fukushima
Guardian lions at local shrines, a record of provincial stonemasons' skill.
IbarakiArt & CraftsMito
Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
On the shore of Lake Senba, built around Yokoyama Taikan and Tsune Nakamura, with French modern painting alongside.
IbarakiArt & CraftsMito
Art Tower Mito
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKitaibaraki
Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
One of the few museums tracing modern Japanese ceramics as a whole, centred on Itaya Hazan and Kosei Matsui.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
Founded by an art dealer; its strangest room holds 400 palettes actually used by famous painters.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Ware
A pottery town with no house style: over 300 potters live here, each working their own way.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Inari Museum
A shrine-run museum holding medieval jars from Japan's six ancient kilns.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKashima
Kashima Jingu Treasure Hall
A 2.7-metre straight sword of the Nara period - among the largest surviving Japanese blades.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKoga
Museum of Tenkoku Seal Carving
Japan's only museum of seal carving - an art that sits between calligraphy and sculpture.
IbarakiArt & CraftsChikusei
Shimodate Museum of Art
Centred on Shigeru Morita, who painted Kurokawa Noh again and again.
IbarakiArt & CraftsYuki
Yuki Tsumugi
Silk floss drawn into thread by hand without twisting, then woven on a back-strap loom; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
IbarakiArt & CraftsSakuragawa
Makabe Stone Lanterns
Lanterns cut from Tsukuba granite by a town of stonemasons working since the Edo period.
IbarakiArt & CraftsUshiku
Ushiku Daibutsu
Among the tallest bronze statues on earth - the Nara Great Buddha would fit in its palm.
IbarakiArt & CraftsHitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Washi
Paper so strong it was used for ledgers and firemen's coats, once reserved for the Mito domain.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Carvings of Kasama Inari
Vegetables and fruit carved in fine relief around the hall - shrine carpentry at close range.
Naka
Five Hundred Rakan of Motokomezaki
Stone rakan figures ranged across a slope, no two faces alike.
Hitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Papermaking
Paper is still made in midwinter, when cold water makes the fibres bind best.