Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art
The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.
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The province's central art museum, known for holding the Ecole de Paris painter Pascin in depth, alongside Hokkaido artists and studio glass.
A single-artist museum for Kotaro Migishi, born in Sapporo and dead at 31 - his whole restless change of manner fits in a few rooms.
Forty hectares of woodland holding both an indoor museum and 74 outdoor sculptures, half-buried in snow for part of the year.
On the site of the sculptor Shin Hongo's own studio, holding the models for the monuments that stand in streets across Japan.
Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.
The sculpture of Teijiro Nakahara, dead young, shown in a 1902 army officers' club that is itself an Important Cultural Property.
A town of 8,000 declared itself the photography town and has run this festival, and its international prize, for forty years.
A converted school in the middle of the hills, showing the landscape photographs Shinzo Maeda took of those same hills.
Built around printmaking, in a wood in Midorigaoka park, with regular shows of artists from the Tokachi plain.
A farmer who painted while working the land and died at 32; his unfinished horse, brushed onto plywood, is the centrepiece.
In a converted bathhouse at the heart of a small museum village, for a painter who kept painting Hokkaido's nature.
Gallery and theatre in one building, collecting eastern Hokkaido artists and work taking the Kushiro marshes as subject.
Inside a lifelong learning centre, quietly showing and collecting the work of local artists.
A settlement of some thirty Ainu woodcarving workshops, where the carving is done in the open and bought directly from the maker.
One of the older municipal museums in the province, built around Kaichi Igushi's paintings of the Okhotsk fisheries.
Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
Three local artists get permanent rooms, among them Yutoku Ichihara, who printed from corroded metal plates.
A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.
A sculptor turned a closed mine town's school and playground into a seven-hectare field of marble you may touch and sit on.
The painter behind a famous novel's protagonist; he fished for a living, lost his early work to fire, and kept painting.
Some three hundred Picasso prints on a hill above the Japan Sea - an unexpected centre of Western art in a small town.
A painter who began in Surrealism, returned home, and spent the rest of his life on one mountain and its animals.
Art and archaeology in one museum, with the paper and port industries that made the town treated as a third strand.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.