ShimaneArt & CraftsHamada
Iwami Kagura
Known for its Yamata-no-Orochi piece. A local performing art danced through the night.
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Shimane Art Museum
Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.
ShimaneArt & CraftsYasugi
Adachi Museum of Art
Ranked Japan's finest garden for over twenty consecutive years by a US journal; its windows are framed to present the garden as a painting.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Tanabe Art Museum
Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.
Matsue
Yakumo Lacquerware
Pictures painted in coloured lacquer and covered with clear coats; as the years pass the top clears and the picture brightens.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Fujina Ware
Its slip technique resembles English country pottery; Bernard Leach came here, and the exchange went both ways.
Gotsu
Sekishu Ware
Great water jars fired so hard they resist salt and acid, sold to kitchens and pickling sheds all over Japan.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMasuda
Iwami Art Museum, Grand Toit
Hiroshi Naito clad walls and roof alike in 280,000 local red tiles, wrapped around a courtyard pool.
ShimaneArt & CraftsTsuwano
Anno Art Museum
For a picture-book artist known worldwide for books without words, in a tile-roofed building by Hiroshi Naito.
ShimaneArt & CraftsHamada
Hamada Children's Museum of Art
Collects and exhibits children's own drawings, and does not separate the making from the looking.
ShimaneArt & CraftsIzumo
Shussai Kiln
Started by five young men, guided by the mingei leaders, and still making unsigned everyday ware by policy.
Okinoshima
Rengee Mai of Oki
An ancient court dance lost on the mainland but preserved on the island, its masks and robes medieval.
ShimaneArt & CraftsOkinoshima
Bull Sumo of Oki
Said to have begun to console an exiled emperor, and still ended in a deliberate draw.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Sweets and Tea of Matsue
A tea-master lord's taste made this one of Japan's three great confectionery towns; the moulds are carvings in themselves.
Hamada
Mask and Costume Makers of Iwami
Masks are built from layered paper to stay light for violent dancing; the embroidered robes can cost millions of yen.
ShimaneArt & CraftsTsuwano
Heron Dance of Tsuwano
Dancers wear heron wings in a form that died out in Kyoto and survived only here.
Okinoshima
Boatbuilding of Oki
Boats built from island timber, the curve of the hull adjusted to the sea each village works.
Matsue
Shinto Images of Izumo
Shinto deities carved in human form survive here - made with Buddhist technique but in different dress and mood.
Shimane
Sodeshi Ware
Sodeshi ware from Matsue. It follows in the tradition of the mingei folk craft movement.
Shimane
Sekishu Washi
Sekishu washi paper from Hamada. It is made from kozo paper mulberry. Thin and strong, it is a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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Sekishu Washi Center
The Sekishu Washi Center in Hamada. Visitors can try papermaking.