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A rite in which women crossed a cloth bridge blindfolded, in place of the climb they were barred from. Salvation without the ascent.
Art & Crafts in Toyama34 entries
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Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
Art and design treated as equals, with a vast poster collection and a rooftop playground facing the Tateyama range.
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Toyama Prefectural Museum of Suiboku Ga
A rare public museum devoted to ink painting alone, its low sukiya-like building shaping how the works are seen.
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Toyama Glass Art Museum
Shares a building with the library; Kengo Kuma's six-storey void is lined with local timber set on the slant.
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Toyama Glass Studio
Built when the city decided to become a glass town; three decades of training has kept the artists living here.
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Sato Memorial Museum of Art
Inside the castle park, built around a businessman's gift of tea utensils and Asian antiquities.
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Etchu Washi
Three papermaking districts designated together; at Yatsuo the paper itself is stencil-dyed.
ToyamaArt & CraftsTakaoka
Takaoka Art Museum
Collecting around metalwork, as befits a casting town - and working the border between craft and sculpture.
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Takaoka Bronze Casting
Ninety percent of Japan's bronzeware; begun when the Kaga domain summoned seven casters, now casting contemporary design.
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Takaoka Lacquerware
Known for aogai - shell shaved paper-thin and inlaid, shifting through the spectrum as the light moves.
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Takaoka Mikurumayama Festival
Floats that gather the town's metalwork, lacquer and textiles into single objects; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Etchu Fukuoka Sedge Hats
Most of Japan's sedge hats are made here, from growing the sedge to the final stitch.
ToyamaArt & CraftsNanto
Inami Woodcarving
Taught by Kyoto carvers who came to rebuild the temple; the street is still lined with workshops using 200 kinds of chisel.
ToyamaArt & CraftsNanto
Johana Float Festival
Lacquered and carved floats followed by small music pavilions; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Shogawa Turned Woodwork
Turning begun with timber floated down the river; the blanks it makes go to lacquer towns across Japan.
ToyamaArt & CraftsNyūzen
Shimoyama Art Forest Power Plant Museum
A 1926 hydroelectric plant turned gallery, keeping its penstocks and turbine beds; artists make work for that space.
ToyamaArt & CraftsKurobe
Selene Art Museum
Seven contemporary Nihonga painters were commissioned to paint one gorge; the results hang here permanently.
ToyamaArt & CraftsKamiichi
Oiwasan Nissekiji
The main image is carved straight into a boulder; the hall was built around the rock, so image and terrain are one.
ToyamaArt & CraftsImizu
Shinminato Float Festival
Floats dressed in flowers by day are re-hung with lanterns at night - one object with two forms in a day.
ToyamaArt & CraftsTakaoka
Takaoka Great Buddha
Cast over thirty years by the town's own founders - a great bronze made entirely with local technique.
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Takaoka Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, metalsmith, lacquerer and gilder each take a part - the town's whole craft in one object.
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Lion Dances of Himi
Over a hundred lion dances survive in one city, each hamlet's carved head differing enough to trace its lineage.
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Paper and Hemp of Fukumitsu
Paper from Gokayama kozo and hemp cloth woven in the hills - work for the months the snow shut everyone in.
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Modern Painters of Toyama
Painters born in this province, among them the bird-and-flower master Ishizaki Koyo, are held across its museums.