OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Ohara Museum
The first museum of Western art in Japan. It holds El Greco's Annunciation.
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OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kojima Denim
A tabi and school-uniform town that made Japan's first jeans; its old shuttle looms now supply the world.
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Kurashiki Canvas
Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.
OkayamaArt & CraftsOkayama
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
Built around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.
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Hayashibara Museum of Art
Built on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.
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Yumeji Art Museum
In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
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Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
OkayamaArt & CraftsBizen
Bizen Ware
The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.
Bizen
Bizen Ware Museum
A museum centered on Bizen ware, ceramics and art, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.
OkayamaArt & CraftsNagi
Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.
OkayamaArt & CraftsTsuyama
Sakushu Kasuri
Kasuri farmers once wove for themselves; the craft died out and has been brought back.
OkayamaArt & CraftsTakahashi
Fukiya Bengara Museum
The making of red iron-oxide pigment, which went into Kutani porcelain and Wajima lacquer alike.
Ibara
Denchu Art Museum
For a sculptor who carved until he was 107, and who past a hundred bought thirty years' worth of timber.
OkayamaArt & CraftsIbara
Hanatori Otsuka Museum
Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKasaoka
Chikkyo Art Museum
For a painter of the Inland Sea in high-keyed colour, and the museum lets you watch him leave his teacher's manner behind.
Maniwa
Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.
Okayama
Ujobori Carving
Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.
Kurashiki
Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.
Setouchi
Bizen Swords
The largest of Japan's five sword traditions; roughly half of all National Treasure blades were forged here.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kojima Torajiro
The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.
Okayama
Bizen Ware Traditional Industry Hall
The traditional industry hall in Bizen. It displays unglazed, high-fired stoneware vessels.
Okayama
Imbe Kiln Cluster
The kilns of Imbe, Bizen. Climbing kilns are clustered in a town lined with chimneys.
Okayama
Sakazu Ware
Sakazu ware of Kurashiki. It follows in the line of the mingei folk craft movement.