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Akita Kanto Festival
Akita City's summer festival, about 270 years old. Bamboo poles hung with lanterns are balanced on forehead and hip as bearers move through the streets.
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Akita Museum of Art
Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.
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Akita Senshu Museum of Art
Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.
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Akita Museum of Modern Art
On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.
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Tsuchizaki Float Festival
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Akita Silver Filigree
Silver wire finer than hair, coiled into spirals - a mine technology turned into jewellery.
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Yabase Doll
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.
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Statue of Tatsuko
A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
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Shiraiwa Ware
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
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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.
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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.
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Odate Bentwood Ware
Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.
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Akita Cedar Cooperage
Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.
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Naraoka Ware
Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.
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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.
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Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi
A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.
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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.
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Odate Local Museum and Magewappa Exhibit
The local history museum of Odate. It exhibits magewappa and the history of the mines.
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Kawatsura Lacquerware Traditional Crafts Museum
Lacquerware from Kawatsura in Yuzawa. Lacquer is applied to the wooden base again and again, and the pieces are decorated with chinkin and maki-e.
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Akita Prefecture Lacquerware Industry Cooperative
A production-area association for Kawatsura lacquerware. It covers the processes for magnolia, horse chestnut, and other wood bases, and lacquer.