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Chichibu Yomatsuri
Held on 2 and 3 December. Included in the UNESCO listing of float festivals.
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The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Design classics are set out to be sat on; Kisho Kurokawa's grid facade opens onto the park.
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Urawa Art Museum
One of the few museums in Japan collecting book art - the made book itself treated as the work.
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Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.
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SaitamaArt & CraftsKawagoe
Kawagoe City Art Museum
Keeps a room for Kyuichiro Aihara, a Kawagoe native who spent his life painting Hokkaido.
SaitamaArt & CraftsWarabi
Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum
A small museum in the family home of Kawanabe Kyosai, overwhelming in its sheer volume of his sketches.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashimatsuyama
Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
A husband and wife spent 32 years on these panels; they hang in a riverside house-like gallery the couple built.
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Chichibu Meisen
Dye is printed straight onto the warp, so the pattern reads identically on both faces of the cloth.
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Carvings of Chichibu Shrine
Carvings wrap all four walls, including a dragon and tiger attributed to the legendary Hidari Jingoro.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOgawa
Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper
Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashichichibu
Higashichichibu Washi Village
Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKawaguchi
Kawaguchi Ironware
Casting everything from Toshogu lanterns to cooking pots; its forest of cupola furnaces became a film subject.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKasukabe
Kasukabe Paulownia Chests
Said to have begun when craftsmen who came to build Nikko Toshogu started production in Kasukabe, a paulownia-growing area. A national traditional craft.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKōnosu
Konosu Hina Doll Festival
A doll-making town of 380 years, stacking 1,800 dolls on a seven-metre tier.
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Iwatsuki Dolls
Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.
SaitamaArt & CraftsYoshimi
Yoshimi Hyakuana
Two hundred and nineteen tomb chambers honeycombing a tuff hillside - a burial ground with the force of a landscape.
Kumagaya
Kumagaya Dyeing
Dyeing that grew on the Arakawa river, keeping both stencil work and hand-painted yuzen.
Hanno
Nishikawa Timber of Hanno
Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOkegawa
Safflower of Ageo and Okegawa
Second only to Mogami as a safflower district, sending rouge dye to Edo; the merchants' storehouses remain.
SaitamaArt & CraftsTokigawa
Joinery of Tokigawa
A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.
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Omiya Bonsai Village
Founded by growers who left Tokyo after the 1923 quake, with street widths and hedges written into its rules.
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Tsurumi Seishi
A paper manufacturer that makes recycled paper. It carries out circular manufacturing.
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Edo Kimekomi Dolls
Dolls made by carving grooves into a body of toso paulownia composite and tucking fabric into them. They have the doll-producing areas of Iwatsuki and Koshigaya as their background.