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IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Ninsei's pheasant incense burner is a National Treasure; the crafts the Kaga domain nurtured are all gathered here.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
National Crafts Museum
The national crafts collection, moved from Tokyo into two relocated Meiji army buildings.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Nakamura Memorial Museum
A sake brewer's tea utensils, shown in his relocated house so the bowls are seen from a tea room.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Noh Museum
Masks and robes of the Kaga Hosho school, with masks visitors may wear to feel how narrow the sight becomes.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Yuzen
More realist than Kyoto yuzen - it even paints the holes insects left in leaves - and built on five set colours.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Gold Leaf
Ninety-nine percent of Japan's gold leaf, beaten to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre - the gilding of Kinkakuji and Nikko alike.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Lacquerware
Begun when the domain imported Edo lacquerers; its raised maki-e uses gold without restraint.
Kanazawa
Kaga Inlay
Gold and silver hammered into cut iron, a technique born on armour and now turned to jewellery.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Ohi Museum
Three and a half centuries, father to son: bowls formed entirely by hand without a wheel, under an amber glaze.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Kutani Ware Museum
Rooms divided by style, so the bold colour fields of old Kutani can be set against the later fine red painting.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNomi
Kutani Ware
Five overglaze colours covering the surface entirely; the kiln died out once, and each revival changed its style.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Yamanaka Lacquerware
Held to have Japan's finest woodturning: blanks cut with the grain, then scored on the lathe in hairline rings.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKomatsu
Miyamoto Saburo Museum of Art
One painter's swing from wartime documentary painting to lush postwar nudes, shown in his home town.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Nanao Art Museum
In the birthplace of Hasegawa Tohaku, painter of the Pine Trees screens, and holding an annual exhibition of his work.
IshikawaArt & CraftsWajima
Wajima Lacquerware
Powdered diatomaceous earth in the ground coat and 124 divided steps make it the toughest lacquer in Japan.
IshikawaArt & CraftsWajima
Wajima Museum of Urushi Art
Said to be the world's only museum devoted solely to lacquer, comparing Japanese work with Chinese and Southeast Asian.
IshikawaArt & CraftsSuzu
Agehama Salt Making
Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.
IshikawaArt & CraftsHakusan
Shirayama Hime Shrine Treasury
Head shrine of 3,000 Hakusan shrines, keeping Heian-period guardian lions among its offerings.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Notojima Glass Art Museum
Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll
A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.