GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Arata Isozaki built it from pure cubic grids - a museum that asks in form what a museum is.
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GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi
Themed on nature and humanity, and holding one of the world's major collections of Francois Pompon's animals.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki City Art Museum
In its grounds stands a copy of Antonin Raymond's own house - a key example of Japanese modernist domestic architecture.
GunmaArt & CraftsMaebashi
Arts Maebashi
A closed department store turned civic art museum, working out into the streets as part of city renewal.
GunmaArt & CraftsKiryu
Okawa Museum of Art
The largest holding of Shunsuke Matsumoto's work in Japan, in a hillside company dormitory converted into galleries.
GunmaArt & CraftsKiryu
Kiryu Textiles
Ranked with Nishijin as Japan's other great weaving city; seven of its techniques are designated together.
GunmaArt & CraftsŌta
Ota City Museum and Library
Gallery and library are not separated but wound together by ramps, readers and viewers sharing one space.
GunmaArt & CraftsShibukawa
Hara Museum ARC
Isozaki's black gabled sheds hold contemporary art in one wing and old Japanese art, shown as if in a tea room, in another.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki Daruma and Shorinzan
Eight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki Byakue Daikannon
The tallest Kannon in the world when built in 1936, of reinforced concrete, climbable to nine storeys.
GunmaArt & CraftsMidori
Tomihiro Art Museum
For an artist who paints with the brush in his mouth; its plan of interlocking circles won an open competition of 1,200 entries.
GunmaArt & CraftsIsesaki
Isesaki Kasuri
Threads tied and dyed before weaving; as meisen it clothed a generation of Japanese women.
GunmaArt & CraftsTatebayashi
Morinji and the Bunbuku Kettle
The temple of the tanuki-turned-kettle folktale, its approach lined with badger statues.
GunmaArt & CraftsMaebashi
Mt Akagi and Modern Painters
Its long gentle slopes appear again and again behind the paintings of Gunma's modern artists.
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Roadside Deities of Minakami
Paired male-and-female stone deities stand at roadsides; the province is dense with them.
Shibukawa
Stone Buddhas of Shibukawa
Buddhas cut into the rock at the foot of Mt Haruna, tracing a line of provincial stonemasons.
GunmaArt & CraftsGunma
Yamaki Minakami Plant
A dashi and mentsuyu food factory in Minakami. It accepts hands-on production experiences.
Gunma
Kiryu Hand-Painted Family Crests
Crest painting from Kiryu. Crests are painted in by hand.
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Ota Shibori and Hashimoto Shibori Shop
Tie-dyeing from Ota. Joshu cotton is bound and dipped in indigo.
Gunma
Joshu Takasaki Chusen Tenugui
Chusen dyeing from Takasaki. A stencil is laid on the cloth and dye is poured from above, dyeing both sides at once.
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Kiryu Shibori Dyeing with Indigo and Plant Dyes
Tie-dyeing in Kiryu using indigo and plant dyes.