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Art & Crafts in Fukuoka38 entries
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Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
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Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.
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Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.
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Hakata Textiles
Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.
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Hakata Dolls
Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.
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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
Two square tubes projecting horizontally from a hilltop - nicknamed the binoculars, and a key early Isozaki.
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Kurume City Art Museum
At the heart of a cultural centre the Bridgestone founder gave his home town, built around two painters born here.
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Kurume Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a twelve-year-old girl who noticed the pattern in a faded cloth; now an Important Intangible Cultural Property.
Yame
Yame Fukushima Butsudan
Built inside like a miniature temple, and finished by seven separate trades in sequence.
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Yame Lanterns
A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.
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Koishiwara Ware
Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.
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Takatori Ware
Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.
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Agano Ware
A tea kiln opened by Korean potters under the Hosokawa lords, light in the hand and marked by running glaze.
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Munakata Taisha Treasure Hall
Eighty thousand objects from a sacred island, all National Treasures - five centuries of state offerings left untouched.
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Shikanoshima
Where the gold seal was found; a tied island whose very geography explains the ancient sea routes.
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Hakata Bentwood Ware
Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.
Fukutsu
Tsuyazaki Dolls
Unglazed clay dolls, best known for a bird-shaped whistle; one workshop still keeps the moulds.
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Hakata Spinning Tops
Tops made for street performance, weighted so precisely they will spin on the tip of a sword.
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Okawa Furniture
Timber came here by river and shipwrights' joinery turned into cabinetmaking - now Japan's largest furniture district.
Itoshima
Studios of Itoshima
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, formed by people who moved here for the coast.
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Hakata Weaving Workshops
Six thousand warp threads to a single sash; the density decides both the sound and the grip, so one hand oversees it all.