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Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Unusual among prefectural museums for its Western modern holdings, shared with its sister museum in Niigata city.
Art & Crafts in Niigata47 entries
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Bandaijima Art Museum
On the fifth floor of a tower by the river mouth, sharing one collection with the museum in Nagaoka.
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Niigata City Art Museum
A late work by Kunio Maekawa, its tiled walls kept low along the edge of the park.
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Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshi Hara's cloister of galleries around a square pool, the building working as a frame for the art.
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Matsudai Nohbutai
A raised building for looking at rice terraces; Kabakov's figures stand in the real field, overlaying poem on landscape.
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Echigo Jofu Ramie Cloth
Ramie split by fingernail, spun by hand, woven, then bleached on the snow; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Shiozawa Tsumugi
The ramie technique applied to silk, its kasuri dots so small the pattern is named after mosquitoes.
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Ojiya Chijimi
Hard-twisted weft crinkled by hot water into a summer cloth that never clings; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Gyokusendo
Two centuries of raising copper vessels - spout and body from a single sheet, without a join.
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Sanjo Blacksmith Dojo
A blade town that began by forging nails for Edo; its forge is open, the fire worked in front of visitors.
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Kamo Paulownia Chests
A major share of Japan's paulownia chests; the wood swells with humidity, sealing the drawers by itself.
Murakami
Murakami Carved Lacquer
Carved wood layered with a dozen coats of lacquer and matted down; use wears the surface until the red shows through.
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Kimura Tea Ceremony Museum
Visitors drink from the collection's own bowls - a museum that hands over its objects rather than glazing them in.
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Kobayashi Kokei Memorial Museum of Art
For a Nihonga painter who reduced everything to line; his house and studio by Isoya Yoshida stand restored beside it.
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Mumyoi Ware
Made from iron-rich earth taken from the gold mine, fired so hard the pots ring like metal.
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Aikawa Craft Museum
Keeps Sado's pottery and its rag weaving - both born from using up what the island had.
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Yahiko Shrine Treasure Hall
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Echigo, including a two-metre blade forged not to fight but to be given.
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Shirone Giant Kite Battle
Kites the size of 24 tatami mats, painted with warriors each year, flown across a river to tangle and tear.
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Niigata Lacquerware
Specialising in trick finishes - lacquer made to look exactly like bamboo, or stone, over a wooden body.
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Nuttari Terrace
A dying market terrace taken over shop by shop by makers - regeneration without a public plan.
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Zen Temples and Ink Painting
Zen arrived early by sea trade; medieval ink paintings and calligraphy survive in temples across the province.
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Gosen Silk
A silk district working both weave and knit, its foundation the technique of twisting the yarn.
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Tokamachi Kimono
From ramie to silk kasuri and yuzen; the snow's humidity is what makes the dyeing work.
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Mokujiki Buddhas
Rough-hewn smiling Buddhas by the wandering monk Mokujiki, rediscovered by Soetsu Yanagi.