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Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
On the shore of Lake Senba, built around Yokoyama Taikan and Tsune Nakamura, with French modern painting alongside.
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Art Tower Mito
Arata Isozaki's twisting tetrahedral tower marks a centre that treats art, music and theatre as equals.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKitaibaraki
Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art
Where Okakura Tenshin moved his art academy; the misty new Nihonga style was born on this coast.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum
One of the few museums tracing modern Japanese ceramics as a whole, centred on Itaya Hazan and Kosei Matsui.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Nichido Museum of Art
Founded by an art dealer; its strangest room holds 400 palettes actually used by famous painters.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Ware
A pottery town with no house style: over 300 potters live here, each working their own way.
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Kasama Inari Museum
A shrine-run museum holding medieval jars from Japan's six ancient kilns.
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Kashima Jingu Treasure Hall
A 2.7-metre straight sword of the Nara period - among the largest surviving Japanese blades.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKoga
Museum of Tenkoku Seal Carving
Japan's only museum of seal carving - an art that sits between calligraphy and sculpture.
IbarakiArt & CraftsChikusei
Shimodate Museum of Art
Centred on Shigeru Morita, who painted Kurokawa Noh again and again.
IbarakiArt & CraftsYuki
Yuki Tsumugi
Silk floss drawn into thread by hand without twisting, then woven on a back-strap loom; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
IbarakiArt & CraftsSakuragawa
Makabe Stone Lanterns
Lanterns cut from Tsukuba granite by a town of stonemasons working since the Edo period.
IbarakiArt & CraftsUshiku
Ushiku Daibutsu
Among the tallest bronze statues on earth - the Nara Great Buddha would fit in its palm.
IbarakiArt & CraftsHitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Washi
Paper so strong it was used for ledgers and firemen's coats, once reserved for the Mito domain.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Carvings of Kasama Inari
Vegetables and fruit carved in fine relief around the hall - shrine carpentry at close range.
Naka
Five Hundred Rakan of Motokomezaki
Stone rakan figures ranged across a slope, no two faces alike.
Hitachiōmiya
Nishinouchi Papermaking
Paper is still made in midwinter, when cold water makes the fibres bind best.
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Painted Doors of Kobuntei
Each room is named for a plant and painted to match; the doors were restored after wartime fire.
IbarakiArt & CraftsKasama
Kasama Chrysanthemum Festival
One of Japan's oldest chrysanthemum festivals, dressing figures in living trained flowers.
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Girekkan of Tokiwa Shrine
Relics of Mito's two great lords, whose calligraphy and armour convey the temper of Mito learning.
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Kasama Ware Cooperative and Kasama Craft Hills
A hill run by the Kasama ware cooperative. Works from the kilns are displayed, and visitors can try the potter's wheel.
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Izura Tenshin Ware
Izura Tenshin ware from Kitaibaraki. The ceramics of the place where Okakura Tenshin was based.
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Kurino Shunkei Lacquerware
Shunkei lacquerware from Shirosato. Transparent lacquer is applied thinly to show the figured grain of the wooden base.