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Aomori Nebuta
Figure lanterns five metres high move through the streets to shouts of "rassera".
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Aomori Museum of Art
Its galleries imitate the walls of an excavation trench; it holds three of the four vast backdrops Chagall painted for the ballet Aleko.
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Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
A residency where artists come to make work, wrapped by a long concrete arc that Tadao Ando drew through the forest.
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Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art
A Meiji cider factory turned contemporary art museum, on the site of three Yoshitomo Nara exhibitions, converted so the building keeps its memory.
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Hirosaki Kogin Institute
Kogin stitching filled scarce hemp cloth with cotton thread; the workshop still does it by hand, inside Maekawa's very first building.
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Tsugaru-han Neputa Village
Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.
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Hachinohe Art Museum
A hall for gathering comes before the galleries here - a design argument that won the Architectural Institute of Japan prize.
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Kushihiki Hachimangu Treasure Hall
Two 13th-century suits of armour, both National Treasures; the red-laced one is among the most ornamented to survive anywhere.
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Towada Art Center
Each artwork gets its own white box, linked by glass corridors; the works spill outdoors until the whole street is the exhibition.
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Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.
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Tsugaru Kanayama Ware
Unglazed stoneware coloured only by wood ash, using local clay and earth dug from a former reservoir.
Hirakawa
Hirakawa Neputa Festival
An August festival in Hirakawa. Among Tsugaru's Neputa, this one fields the large fan-shaped floats.
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Engakuji Treasure Hall
Ship votive paintings hung beside framed topknots cut off in thanks for surviving the sea - folk art produced by maritime faith.
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Yu-sa Asamushi
A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.
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Tanesashi Coast
The coast where Kaii Higashiyama found the subject of his best-known painting - rock, turf and sea in bands.
Hachinohe
Nanbu Hishizashi
The counterpart to Tsugaru kogin: counted on even threads, so its diamonds are built on a different geometry.
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Tsugaru Lacquerware
Nicknamed the fool's lacquer for its 48 coats, ground back to reveal a mottling made by eggshell and rapeseed.
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Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.
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Tachineputa Workshop
Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.
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Hokuyo Glass and Tsugaru Vidro
A workshop that blows Tsugaru Vidro glass. Techniques originally used to make glass floats for fishing moved into craft.
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BUNACO Nishimeya Factory
Thin beech boards are rolled up to make vessels. It uses beech from Aomori Prefecture and has its factory in Nishimeya.
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Hachinohe City Museum and Korekawa Jomon Museum
It houses lacquered vessels unearthed from the Korekawa Site. It conveys the lacquer techniques of the Jomon period.
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Sannai-Maruyama Site Center
The remains of a large settlement of the Jomon period. The post holes of a large pillar-supported building remain, and it is a World Cultural Heritage site.
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Tsugaru Lacquerware, Hirosaki Tsugaru Lacquerware Commerce and Industry Cooperative
Many layers of lacquer are applied and then polished down to bring out the pattern. There are four techniques, including kara-nuri and nanako-nuri, and it is an Important Intangible Cultural Property.