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Beside a designated scenic garden, and built around artists connected to Hiroshima and the crafts of Asia.
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Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
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Hiroshima Museum of Art
Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.
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Miyajima Woodcraft
Said to begin with rice paddles shaped after a goddess's lute; the trade covers both turning and carving.
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Onomichi City Museum of Art
Tadao Ando wrapped an existing building; from the galleries the strait and the island opposite are in view.
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Fukuyama Museum of Art
Unusual in Japan for collecting 20th-century Italian art, and standing next to the castle.
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Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
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Miyoshi Clay Dolls
Called shining dolls for their gloss; one family still makes them, using moulds from the Edo period.
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Kumano Brushes
Eight in ten Japanese brushes; the hair tips are never cut, so the point forms itself.
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Kawajiri Brushes
Hair blended in water rather than dry; a brush town specialising in calligraphy alongside Kumano.
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Fuchu Furniture
A wedding-furniture town where the trades divide the work and compete on the precision of the joinery.
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Bingo Kasuri
One of Japan's three great kasuri districts; its toughness made it workwear, and the town later turned to denim.
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Fukuyama Koto
Over sixty percent of Japan's koto; the sound is cut into the paulownia body as a pattern of grooves inside the lid.
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Hirayama Ikuo Museum of Art
Born on this island and a survivor of the bomb; the museum runs from his boyhood sketches to his last large works.
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Geihoku Kagura
Descended from the Iwami tradition, with serpents and demons whose robes cost millions and whose masks are made of paper.
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Onomichi in Film
Filmed again and again from Ozu onward; the same slope and level crossing keep reappearing in different decades.
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Hiroshima Butsudan
Gilded altars grown from a strongly Pure Land region, finished by six separate trades in sequence.
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Prints of Hiroshima
Printmaking was chosen to carry the memory of the bomb precisely because prints can be multiplied and sent out.
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Miyajima Rice Scoops
Rice scoops from Miyajima. It is regarded as the birthplace of the shamoji rice scoop, whose shape is said to have been borrowed from the biwa lute of Benzaiten.
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Miyajima Turned Woodwork
Lathe-turned woodwork from Miyajima. Wood is turned on a lathe to make vessels.
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Hiroshima Buddhist Altars
Buddhist altars from Hiroshima. Gold leaf is applied thickly, and the work, from the wooden base to the gilding, is divided among seven trades.
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Togochi Kurimono Woodcraft
Togochi kurimono from Akiota. Wood is hollowed out to make vessels.
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Ikkokusai Takamori-e
Ikkokusai takamori-e from Hiroshima. Lacquer is built up thickly to form pictures.
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Matsunaga Geta
Geta from Matsunaga in Fukuyama. The area once made most of Japan's geta.