YamanashiArt & CraftsKofu
Koshu Inden
Lacquer patterns laid onto deerskin. A technique from armour, turned to accessories.
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YamanashiArt & CraftsKofu
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art
Opened as 'the Millet museum'; a pioneering case of a regional museum collecting one European school in depth.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Hirayama Ikuo Silk Road Museum
The painter walked the Silk Road 150 times; his canvases hang beside the Gandharan sculpture he brought back.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Nakamura Keith Haring Collection
The world's only museum devoted to Keith Haring; the route runs from a black tilted entrance out into light.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Kiyoharu Art Colony
On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.
Fujikawaguchiko
Itchiku Kubota Art Museum
The home of a dyer who independently revived tsujigahana dyeing, which appeared from the Muromachi to Momoyama periods; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.
Fujikawaguchiko
Yo Yuki Museum
Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.
Fujikawaguchiko
Kawaguchiko Museum of Art
Collecting one mountain only; photographers who spent lifetimes on Fuji can be compared side by side.
Kofu
Koshu Crystal Carving
Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.
YamanashiArt & CraftsNirasaki
Nirasaki Omura Art Museum
Founded by a Nobel laureate with his own funds, and collecting women artists exclusively - rare in Japan.
YamanashiArt & CraftsMinobu
Nishijima Washi
Paper for calligraphy, made since the 1500s and still varied sheet by sheet to control how ink bleeds.
YamanashiArt & CraftsIchikawamisato
Paper and Fireworks of Ichikawa
A paper town that also makes fireworks - the shells are wound from paper, so the two trades grew together.
YamanashiArt & CraftsFujikawaguchiko
The Five Lakes and Fuji's Viewpoints
The exact spots Hokusai and Hiroshige drew can still be stood on, and the compositions checked against the view.
Tsuru
Yamura and Gunnai Textiles
Thin lustrous silk that sold in Edo for linings and umbrellas, woven in this valley.
Koshu
Stonemasons of Enzan
Stone that weathers to rust-red, quarried for gardens; the craft includes choosing and setting it, not only cutting.
Minobu
Buddhist Implements of Minobu
A temple-gate trade in Buddhist implements, the beads turned and the tassels braided by separate hands.
Kofu
Jewellery Quarter of Kofu
A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Mt Kaikoma and Mountain Worship
A white granite peak worshipped as a body of the god, its climbing path punctuated by stone shrines.
Fuefuki
Round Stone Deities of Kai
In this basin the roadside deity is not carved into a figure but is simply a rounded stone - a form found almost nowhere else.
Kofu
Joinery of Kai
Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.
Yamanashi
Koshu Oishi Tsumugi Textiles
The Oishi tsumugi of Fujikawaguchiko. Everything from sericulture to weaving is done here.
Yamanashi
Nishijima Handmade Washi
The handmade washi of Nishijima, Minobu. Gasenshi paper for calligraphy is made here.
Yamanashi
Koshu Warrior Banners and Carp Streamers
The warrior banners and carp streamers of Koshu. Decorations for the seasonal festival, dyed by hand on cloth.
Yamanashi
Ichikawadaimon Handmade Washi
The handmade washi of Ichikawamisato. Shoji paper is made here. Ichikawadaimon has continued as a washi-producing area.