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Awaji Ningyo
It was performed at shrine festivals, and is one of the sources of bunraku.
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HyogoArt & Crafts
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Built as a symbol of recovery from the 1995 earthquake; Ando's stairs and cylinders make walking the building the experience.
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Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art
Three thousand works by an artist who moved from graphics to painting, and who redraws the same subject again and again.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Hakutsuru Fine Art Museum
A sake brewer's collection of Asian antiquities, with a separate wing of Persian carpets.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Koiso Memorial Museum of Art
For a painter of figures; his studio was moved here whole, down to the way the north light falls.
HyogoArt & CraftsHimeji
Himeji City Museum of Art
An 1905 army warehouse turned gallery, its red brick standing against the white castle across the moat.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
In the Tamba pottery district, running from medieval kilns to the present, and working with the studios next door.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
Tamba Ware
One of the six ancient kilns, and the only district in Japan where the kick wheel turns anticlockwise.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishinomiya
Otani Memorial Art Museum
Its annual exhibition of international picture-book illustration has made it Japan's centre for that field.
HyogoArt & CraftsAshiya
Ashiya City Museum of Art and History
The Gutai group began in this town; the museum holds the fullest local record of a movement that made throwing paint the work.
HyogoArt & CraftsItami
Itami City Museum of Art
Collects prints that criticise society, with an unusual concentration of Daumier lithographs.
HyogoArt & CraftsToyooka
Toyooka Willow Craft
A basket in the 8th-century Shosoin is said to come from here; willow weaving later made this Japan's luggage capital.
HyogoArt & CraftsMinamiawaji
Awaji Roof Tiles
Smoked at the end of firing so carbon turns them silver; the demon tiles on the ridge are the tiler's sculpture.
HyogoArt & CraftsMiki
Miki Hardware
Smiths gathered to rebuild a castle and stayed; the town became Japan's main source of chisels and planes.
HyogoArt & CraftsNishiwaki
Banshu Textiles
Yarn dyed before weaving, so the colour holds; most of Japan's yarn-dyed cotton comes from this valley.
HyogoArt & CraftsOno
Banshu Abacus
Most of Japan's abacuses; the wood, the turning and the rods together decide how the beads feel and sound.
Himeji
Leather of Himeji
Hides tanned with nothing but salt and rapeseed oil - an ancient method that grew up supplying armour.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Tetsujin Monument, Nagata
An earthquake-hit district raised an 18-metre robot from a local cartoonist's comic, paid for by residents.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Arima Onsen
Among Japan's oldest spas; its woven bamboo baskets are said to have been used by Hideyoshi at tea.
Sanda
Sanda Celadon
A kiln that copied Chinese celadon, extinct for a century and now being revived.
HyogoArt & CraftsHyogo
Tachikui Sue no Sato
Sue no Sato in Tamba-Sasayama. It displays works by the potteries, and visitors can try making pottery.
Hyogo
Banshu Cutlery
Banshu bladed tools from Miki and Ono. Scissors and small knives are made by forging.