ShigaArt & CraftsNagahama
Kurokabe Square
Built around a black-plastered former bank, the district was reborn as a town of glass.
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ShigaArt & Crafts
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Miho Museum
Designed by I. M. Pei. It appears at the far end of a tunnel and a suspension bridge.
ShigaArt & CraftsOtsu
Shiga Museum of Art
The first public museum in Japan to make art brut a collecting pillar - work by makers who never trained, taken seriously.
ShigaArt & CraftsMoriyama
Sagawa Art Museum
Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.
ShigaArt & CraftsOtsu
Otsu-e Folk Paintings
Mass-produced roadside paintings sold to travellers, drawn fast to fixed subjects - later hailed by Yanagi as folk art.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Ware
One of the six ancient kilns; feldspar in the coarse clay bursts white through the surface, and fire and ash mark each pot differently.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Studio, gallery and research on one hill, hosting foreign artists to work in Shigaraki clay for over thirty years.
ShigaArt & CraftsNagahama
Doganji Kannon
One of only seven National Treasure eleven-headed Kannon; villagers buried it in the earth to save it from war, and still keep it.
Nagahama
Kannon Villages of Kohoku
Where villagers, not monks, have kept the temples open and the images safe for centuries - an unusual form of custodianship.
Aisho
Omi Jofu Ramie Cloth
Fine summer ramie whose kasuri patterns are made by pressing dye onto the threads with a comb.
Otsu
Buddhist Implements of Otsu
Serving the demand of Mt Hiei and Kyoto, workshops here still handle single stages of the trade.
ShigaArt & CraftsHikone
Hikone Butsudan
Armourers turned to altars in peacetime; seven separate trades now build each one.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Tanuki
Spread nationwide after an imperial visit; each of the eight things the badger carries stands for a virtue.
Nagahama
Shrine Cabinets of Kohoku
The cabinets that house the Kannon images survive village by village - the container itself a work of craft.
Omihachiman
Reed Screens of Omi
Lakeside reeds cut and woven into screens and thatch - wetland management and craft as a single job.
ShigaArt & CraftsHino
Hino Festival Floats
Floats decorated with merchant money, some hung with textiles brought from overseas.
Shiga
Tsuzure Nishiki Tapestry Weaving
Tsuzure tapestry weaving. The weft threads are raked into place with the fingernails to weave out pictures.
Shiga
Revived Koto Ware
Koto ware from Hikone. A porcelain that flourished as a domain kiln, then died out and was revived.
Shiga
Hachiman Round Bamboo Crafts
Round bamboo craft from Omihachiman. Round bamboo is used as it is and assembled.
Shiga
Wooden Beads and Fine Wooden Prayer Beads
Wooden prayer beads are turned. The area has continued as a producer of beads for rosaries.
Shiga
Plant-Dyed Hand-Braided Kumihimo
Kumihimo cords braided by hand from thread dyed with plants.