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Nagaragawa Ukai
A fishing method of 1,300 years. The masters hold office under the Imperial Household Agency.
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GifuArt & CraftsSeki
Seki Cutlery
Swordsmithing since the Kamakura period. Today a world centre for kitchen knives and scissors.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
One of the world's major holdings of Odilon Redon, including his great sequences of black lithographs.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Lanterns
Mino paper stretched so thin the bamboo ribs show through when the lantern is lit.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Paper Umbrellas
Most of Japan's paper umbrellas came from here; looked up into, the threads binding the ribs form a geometric pattern.
GifuArt & CraftsTajimi
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.
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GifuArt & CraftsMino
Hon-Minoshi Paper
Paper made here survives in the 8th-century Shosoin; fibres crossed both ways make it thin, even and hard to tear.
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition
Paper light sculptures set out along the old street, with the town's own lamps switched off for the night.
GifuArt & CraftsSeki
Enku Buddhas
The monk Enku carved with a hatchet as he walked Japan; over 5,000 survive, smiling out of raw split wood.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Takayama Festival Floats
Floats into which the Hida craftsmen poured everything - carving, lacquer, metalwork and clockwork puppets.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Ichii Wood Carving
Carved from yew and never painted, so the wood's red and white heartwood does the work and deepens with age.
Takayama
Hida Shunkei Lacquer
Clear lacquer that reveals rather than hides the grain, so choosing the wood decides the finished piece.
GifuArt & CraftsHida
Hida City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Indigo Dyeing
Dyed in live indigo vats without chemicals, then rinsed in the winter river - a sight the town turns out for.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Food Samples of Gujo
Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.
GifuArt & CraftsOgaki
Moriya Tadashi Art Museum
Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.
GifuArt & CraftsKani
Furuta Oribe
A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.
Takayama
Hida Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.
Mino
Paper Crafts of Mino
A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Great Buddha
A great Buddha of bamboo, sutra-covered paper and lacquer - built not of bronze or wood but of paper.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Mino Washi
The washi of Mino. It has a history of 1,300 years and is known for the technique of forming thin, even sheets.
Gifu
Gifu Shibu Uchiwa Fans
The shibu uchiwa fans of Gifu. Persimmon tannin is applied to washi to make it strong.