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Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Rebuilt beside Zenkoji, its roof opened free to the public as a 'landscape museum' framing the town and mountains.
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Higashiyama Kaii Gallery
Holds the 970 works Higashiyama gave to the province, in a Taniguchi building reflected in still water.
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Kitano Museum of Art
A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsumoto
Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Yayoi Kusama was born here; her polka dots run from the permanent gallery out to the sculptures and even the vending machines.
Matsumoto
Craft Fair Matsumoto
The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsukawa, Nagano
Chihiro Art Museum Azumino
For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Rokuzan Art Museum
For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Toyoshina Museum of Modern Art
Sculpture set inside a Romanesque-styled building, centred on Hiroatsu Takata, who studied under Rodin's shadow.
Azumino
Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi
A picture-book gallery in a pine wood, showing the brushwork that printing always loses.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
NaganoArt & CraftsOkaya
Ilf Museum of Art
For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.
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NaganoArt & CraftsUeda
KAITA EPITAPH
Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
Ueda
Ueda Tsumugi
Said to last three generations; its striped and checked colourways follow local conventions.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Hokusaikan
Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery
A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Karuizawa New Art Museum
A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.
NaganoArt & CraftsShiojiri
Kiso Lacquerware
Iron-rich local earth in the ground coat makes it exceptionally tough; it grew as souvenirs for travellers on the highway.
Nagiso
Nagiso Woodturning
Kiso hardwoods turned on the lathe and often left unlacquered, so choosing the timber is the real skill.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuzaka
Suzaka Classic Museum
In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.
Nakano
Nakano Clay Dolls
Two families keep two separate moulds and palettes in the same town - an unusual survival of parallel lineages.