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Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
Centred on Chu Asai, a founder of modern Western-style painting in Japan, in a low horizontal building by Masato Otaka.
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Chiba City Museum of Art
Outstanding in Edo painting and ukiyo-e; its entrance hall is a 1920s bank wrapped inside the new building.
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Hoki Museum
The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.
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Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.
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Sakura City Museum of Art
Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.
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Naritasan Calligraphy Museum
Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.
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Katori Jingu
Holds a National Treasure Tang-dynasty mirror; its black-lacquered hall was built by shogun Tsunayoshi.
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Ichihara Lakeside Museum
A bold conversion of an existing building, its terraces and outdoor works blurring the edge between architecture and lake.
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Stone Buddhas of Nokogiriyama
A 31-metre Buddha and 1,553 rakan carved from the quarry face - an industry that turned into sculpture.
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Tokyo Bay Kannon
A 56-metre concrete Kannon raised for the war dead, climbable by 324 steps to shoulder height.
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Katsuura Hina Festival
Thirty thousand dolls fill the town, and a shrine's sixty stone steps become a tiered display.
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Tai no Ura
The sea where Nichiren was born, worshipped together with the temple that marks the place.
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Boshu Uchiwa Fans
Boshu uchiwa from Minamiboso. Its hallmark is the marue round handle, with round bamboo split just as it is to form the ribs. A nationally designated traditional craft.
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Chiba Koshogu Artisan Tools
Hand tools made by Chiba's blacksmiths. Farm tools and carpenter's tools, such as sickles and hoes, are forged. A nationally designated traditional craft.
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Tozan-ori Weaving
Tozan-ori from Tateyama. Stripes are woven with fine cotton yarn. It is a domestic copy, made in the Edo period, of imported textiles.
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Maiwai Dyeing
The dyeing of fishermen's festive robes, which were given to celebrate a big catch. Cranes and turtles or treasure ships are drawn by the tsutsugaki method.
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Choshi Chijimi Crepe
A cotton textile from Choshi. Tightly twisted yarn produces the crinkled unevenness called shibo.
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Tateyama Tozan Weaving
A striped cotton weave from Tateyama. It carries on the tozan technique.
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Hand-Painted Yuzen
Yuzen dyeing in which paste is laid down with a tube and colors are applied with a brush.
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Mokuzogan Wood Inlay
Woodwork in which woods of different colors are cut thin and inlaid.
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Ujo Yoji Toothpicks
Picks from Kimitsu. They are made by whittling branches of kuromoji spicebush. They are used at tea gatherings.
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Sawara Ear Picks
Ear picks from Sawara. Everyday implements made by whittling bamboo and wood.