Homotsukan
It is said to hold about forty percent of all armour designated National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties.
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It is said to hold about forty percent of all armour designated National Treasures or Important Cultural Properties.
Soft water is used for bleaching, which is what makes them soft. Most of Japan's towels are made here.
Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.
Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.
Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.
A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.
Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.
A six-metre papier-mache beast with an ox's body and a demon's head, its neck stretched to poke into the eaves.
A museum in a mountain town, built on modern oil paintings gathered by a local businessman.
A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.
Ruled by a branch of the Sendai Date house; its armour and furnishings share motifs with the main family's.
Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.
Dances in animal masks - deer above all - with each village's masks carved differently.
Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.
The traditional industry hall in Tobe. It displays works by Tobe ware kilns and presents the thick white porcelain.
The prefecture's ceramics technology center. It researches the clay and glazes of Tobe ware.
Iyo Kasuri Hall in Matsuyama. It exhibits dyeing and weaving tools and the industry.