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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
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Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
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Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
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Sen-oku Hakukokan
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
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Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
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Raku Museum
Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.
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Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
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Nomura Art Museum
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.
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Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
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Nishijin Textiles
Named for the camp of a 15th-century war where the weavers regrouped; still built on small runs and divided labour.
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Kyo Yuzen Dyeing
Paste is drawn along every outline to keep the colours apart, leaving the fine white line that identifies the technique.
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Kyo Ware and Kiyomizu Ware
Not tied to local clay: materials were brought in from everywhere to meet each commission, which is why the styles multiplied.
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Karakami Woodblock Paper
Mica pressed from woodblocks onto paper by hand, so the pattern appears and vanishes as the light moves.
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Sanjusangendo
A 120-metre hall holding 1,001 life-size Kannon; 124 survive from the 1100s, and no two faces are the same.
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Rokuharamitsuji
Six tiny Amida figures issue from the monk's mouth - the act of chanting itself rendered as sculpture.
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Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.
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Iwafunedera and the Stone Buddhas of Tono
Kamakura-period Buddhas carved into roadside rock; the walk from temple to temple is itself the gallery.
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Gion Festival Floats
Called a moving museum: Persian and Flemish textiles imported in the 1500s still hang on the floats every July.
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Tango Chirimen Silk Crepe
Silk hard-twisted then shrunk in hot water to raise its crinkled surface; most of Japan's undyed kimono cloth is woven here.