TochigiArt & CraftsKanuma
Kanuma Buttsuke
Carved floats face one another and compete in music, in a contest called buttsuke.
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TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
One of Japan's first public modern art museums, and unusually strong in the English Pre-Raphaelites.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Utsunomiya Museum of Art
A low building set in woodland, collecting 20th-century design and posters on equal footing with fine art.
TochigiArt & CraftsUtsunomiya
Oyaji and Peace Kannon
A Kannon carved straight into the cave wall and once modelled in clay - among Japan's oldest rock-cut images.
TochigiArt & CraftsNikko
Nikko Futarasan Shrine
The heart of Nikko's mountain worship, keeping a National Treasure sword in its treasury.
TochigiArt & CraftsNikko
Kosugi Hoan Museum of Art
A Nikko-born painter who began in oils and crossed into Nihonga, working both to the end.
TochigiArt & CraftsNikko
Nikko Woodcarving
Begun by the craftsmen who built Toshogu, using a hooked blade that draws curves by dragging.
TochigiArt & CraftsNikko
Bake-jizo of Kanmangafuchi
Some seventy mossy stone Jizo along a gorge, said never to give the same count twice.
TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art
Holds the potters at the centre of the mingei movement, with Hamada's relocated house in the grounds.
TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Ware
Heavy everyday ware that became the face of mingei once Shoji Hamada settled here; nearly 400 kilns remain.
TochigiArt & CraftsAshikaga
Ashikaga School
Called Japan's oldest school, keeping National Treasure Chinese classics and a Confucian hall.
TochigiArt & CraftsAshikaga
Kurita Museum
The world's largest museum devoted solely to Imari and Nabeshima porcelain, spread over a wooded hill.
TochigiArt & CraftsAshikaga
Ashikaga Museum of Art
Built around the local painter Riichiro Kawashima, and known for the sharpness of its temporary shows.
TochigiArt & CraftsTochigi
Tochigi Kura Museum
Three 200-year-old earthen storehouses turned into galleries, exhibiting under their original beams.
TochigiArt & CraftsKanuma
Kanuma Kumiko Woodwork
Geometric lattices assembled without a single nail, a trade descended from the Toshogu craftsmen.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Seiji Fujishiro Museum
Shadow pictures shown as they were meant to be seen - cut paper lit from behind in a darkened room.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Nasu Stained Glass Museum
Nineteenth-century English stained glass reinstalled in purpose-built stone chapels.
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TochigiArt & CraftsOyama
Oyama Kurumaya Museum
A rice merchant's storehouse and residence converted into galleries, the buildings themselves listed.
TochigiArt & CraftsMoka
Mooka Cotton
In Edo, cotton meant Mooka; the trade died out and was revived from hand-spinning up.
TochigiArt & CraftsSano
Tenmyo Ironware
A thousand years of casting; tea masters ranked its kettles second only to Ashiya in the west.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasukarasuyama
Karasuyama Washi
Thick Hodomura paper, used for mounting scrolls and formal certificates.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Craft Studios of Nasu
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, built up by artists who moved here.
TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Pottery Fair
Five hundred stalls twice a year, the model on which Japan's other pottery fairs were built.