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Yamagata Museum of Art
Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.
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Yamadera Goto Museum
A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.
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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.
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Yamagata Ironware
Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.
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Hirashimizu Ware
Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Tendo City Art Museum
Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.
Tendo
Tendo Shogi Pieces
Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Dewazakura Art Museum
Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Yonezawa Textiles
Begun as a domain-rescue industry by Uesugi Yozan; silk dyed with safflower and gromwell, still yarn-dyed.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Narushima Ware
A former Uesugi domain kiln, revived after extinction; known for deep iron-black glazes.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Churenji and the Living Buddha
The mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
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YamagataArt & CraftsShinjo
Shinjo Festival Floats
Twenty floats rebuilt from scratch each year, each staging a scene from kabuki in three dimensions.
Tsuruoka
Tatekawa School Carvings
Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.
Shirataka
Miyama Washi
Hand-made paper of pure kozo bark, once reserved for the Uesugi domain.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Yonezawa Armour
Armour and swords said to be Uesugi Kenshin's own, kept in the shrine treasury.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Hanagasa Festival Hats
Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.
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Yamagata Forged Blades
Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Tsuruoka Silk
One of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.
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Yamagata Dantsu and Oriental Carpet
The handwoven carpets of Yamagata. Dantsu carpets, knotted by hand one strand at a time, are woven here.
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Yamagata Cast Iron and Kikuchi Hojudo
Yamagata cast iron. With the technique of casting thin, it makes kettles for the tea ceremony and iron teakettles.