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Sand Museum
The only museum in the world devoted to sand sculpture. It is rebuilt to a new theme each year.
Art & Crafts in Tottori36 entries
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Mizuki Shigeru Road
One hundred and seventy-seven bronze yokai. They brought a shuttered high street back to life.
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Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art
A new prefectural museum whose purchase of Warhol's Brillo Boxes became a public argument about what art is worth.
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Takumi Craft Shop
Across the street from the museum, selling not the collection but what is being made now - the same doctor's experiment.
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Watanabe Art Museum
Thirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.
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Inshu Washi
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
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Ushinoto Ware
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
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Nakai Kiln
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
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Kurayoshi Kasuri
Landscapes and birds woven from tie-dyed thread; the technique died out and was reconstructed by a preservation society.
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Yonago City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum, steady in showing local artists and printmaking.
TottoriArt & CraftsHōki
Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography
For the photographer who staged figures on the dunes; a window frames Mt Daisen as if through his own lens.
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Yumihama Kasuri
Kasuri woven from cotton grown on the sand spit, its lucky motifs boldly simplified into pattern.
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Inkyuzan Ware
A former domain kiln still firing in a climbing kiln, using the same local clay and ash glaze.
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Umbrellas of the Shan-Shan Festival
Paper umbrellas hung with bells and foil, four thousand of them turned at once - a tool become a mass instrument of form.
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Kirin Lion Dance
A lion head with a single horn, found only in this corner of Japan and recognised as national heritage.
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Inshu Papermaking Workshops
Winter paper is made in freezing water; the speed and angle of the shaking mould decide how even the sheet will be.
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Heian Buddhas of Tottori
Single-block Heian images survive in mountain temples here, a record of how the provinces carved.
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Mt Senjo and its Rock Carvings
Columnar rock standing like a folding screen, with Buddhas cut into the face.
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Stonemasons of Tottori
Lanterns and guardian lions supplied to shrines across the region, each quarry's masons cutting differently.
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Yokai as Local Form
One cartoonist's drawings remade an entire town's appearance - form tied directly to a local economy.
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Sajidani-banashi Washi Workshop
A washi workshop in Saji. The technique is handed down in the community.
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Tottori Takumi Craft Shop
The Takumi Craft Shop in Tottori. It continues as a shop dealing in folk craft goods.