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Fukui Fine Arts Museum
Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.
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Fukui City Art Museum
Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.
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Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
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Echizen Blades
Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.
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Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.
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Echizen Ware
One of Japan's six ancient kilns; unglazed, its surface coloured only by falling ash, and once shipped all along the north coast.
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Echizen Lacquerware
Said to be 1,500 years old, and now making 80 percent of Japan's commercial lacquerware - lacquer as working tableware.
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Wakasa Lacquer
Eggshell, shell and pine needles are buried in the lacquer, then ground back to reveal the pattern.
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Wakasa Agate Carving
Agate heated until its colour changes, then carved and polished - a technique surviving only here.
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Old Buddhas of Obama
Wakasa lay on the road between the capital and the northern sea; small temples here keep an unusual density of Heian Buddhas.
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Shakudani Stone
Quarried for 1,500 years and soft enough to carve; wet, the stone deepens to blue-green.
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Stone Buddhas of Katsuyama
Stone Buddhas set along the pilgrim path to Mt Haku, the walking distance itself a measure of devotion.
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Echizen Washi Village Paper and Culture Museum
A museum in Echizen Washi Village. It presents the tools of handmade papermaking and the history of the industry.
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Udatsu Paper and Craft Museum
A craft hall in Echizen Washi Village. An Edo-period papermaker's house was moved here, and demonstrations are given.
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Echizen Old Kiln Museum
The old kiln museum in Echizen. It covers the results of excavations of medieval kiln sites.
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Wakasa Kobo
Wakasa Kobo in Obama. Visitors can try polishing Wakasa lacquer chopsticks.
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Echizen Bamboo Dolls
Bamboo dolls from Echizen. Dolls are made by bundling finely split bamboo strips.
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Echizen Bamboo Doll Village
The bamboo doll village in Sakai. The facility has closed, and the workshop continues in a different form.
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Mikuni Chests
Chests from Mikuni. The woodworking of a place that made ship chests carried on Kitamae ships.
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Fukui Buddhist Altars
Buddhist altars from Fukui. They are finished with lacquer and gold leaf.
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Seiren Headquarters and Katsumi Plant
Seiren in Fukui. Starting out in textiles, it established digital dyeing that prints directly onto fabric.
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Sakai Ovex Head Office Plant
Sakai Ovex in Fukui. It handles dyeing and textile processing.