HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.
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HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Akanko Ainu Kotan
A settlement of some thirty Ainu woodcarving workshops, where the carving is done in the open and bought directly from the maker.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Kitaichi Glass Hall 3
A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru-han Neputa Village
Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.
AomoriArt & CraftsShichinohe
Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.
Goshogawara
Tsugaru Kanayama Ware
Unglazed stoneware coloured only by wood ash, using local clay and earth dug from a former reservoir.
Hirakawa
Hirakawa Neputa Festival
A twelve-metre fan-shaped lantern paraded through the town - a festival in which the painters of the warrior scenes are the principals.
Aomori
Yu-sa Asamushi
A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Nebuta Festival
Three-dimensional warrior figures of wire and paper, made from nothing each year by professional makers, and used once.
AomoriArt & CraftsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Workshop
Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Handi-Works Square
Fourteen workshops under one roof, where visitors watch and try the crafts themselves.
Ninohe
Nambu Chest
Chests of zelkova wood fitted with hand-forged iron mounts, made by two trades working in tandem.
Sendai
Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
MiyagiArt & CraftsIshinomaki
Ogatsu Inkstone
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
MiyagiArt & CraftsOsaki
Naruko Kokeshi
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Shiroishi Washi
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Tanabata Festival
Three thousand paper streamers, each shopping street spending a year making its own.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Kanto Festival
Fifty-kilo lantern poles balanced on foreheads and hips, standing in for ears of rice.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Tsuchizaki Float Festival
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
Akita
Yabase Doll
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.