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MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Tanabata Festival
Lavish bamboo decorations fill central Sendai, and streamers turn the streets into a sea of colour.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Miyagi Museum of Art
One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum
Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Kamei Museum
Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.
Sendai
Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
Sendai
Tamamushi Lacquer
Colour lacquer over silver powder, shifting like a jewel beetle's wing; developed for export in the 1930s.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Chest
Zelkova grain glowing through lacquer, dressed in hand-forged iron mounts; its size came from storing swords.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sculptures on Jozenji Street
Three bronzes by Italian sculptors stand in the median of a zelkova-lined boulevard.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Daikannon
A 100-metre white Kannon; visitors climb inside past 108 Buddhist figures.
MiyagiArt & Crafts
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiogama
Shiogama Shrine Museum
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Mutsu province, with the tools of its salt-making rites.
MiyagiArt & CraftsIshinomaki
Ogatsu Inkstone
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
MiyagiArt & CraftsKesennuma
Rias Ark Museum of Art
Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.
MiyagiArt & CraftsOsaki
Naruko Kokeshi
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
Osaki
Naruko Lacquerware
Wiped lacquer that keeps the grain visible, grown from the same woodturning trade as kokeshi.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Yajiro Kokeshi Village
Yajiro kokeshi wear thick lathe-turned rings on the head, recognisable at a glance.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Shiroishi Washi
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Tsutsujigaoka Tenmangu Steles
A shrine precinct crowded with inscribed stones, a small forest of calligraphy.
Miyagi
Sendai-Hira
Sendai-hira. A silk fabric for hakama, it is designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property of Japan.
Miyagi
Tsutsumi Ware and Kenba Kiln
Pottery that has been fired in Tsutsumimachi, Sendai. White and black glazes are applied in separate areas.
Miyagi
Tsutsumi Dolls
Clay dolls of Tsutsumimachi. Foot soldiers of the Sendai Domain began making them as a side job in the Edo period.
Miyagi
Iwadeyama Shinodake Bamboo Craft
The shinodake bamboo craft of Iwadeyama. Date Masamune is said to have spread it as a side job for lower-ranking samurai.
Miyagi
Nakaniida Forged Blades
The forged blades of Nakaniida, Kami Town. Sickles and kitchen knives are made by forging.