YamanashiMuseumsKofu
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature
In the same park as the art museum, showing manuscripts as much for the hand as for the text.
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NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.
NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum
Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.
NaganoMuseumsAzumino
Tabuchi Yukio Memorial Museum
A mountain photographer's archive, his images hung beside the minutely painted butterflies he also made.
NaganoMuseumsOkaya
Okaya Silk Museum
Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.
NaganoMuseumsChino
Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum
The only museum holding two National Treasure clay figures - the swelling Venus and the masked goddess.
GifuMuseumsGifu
Gifu City Museum of History
On the castle town Nobunaga built, with his free-market street reconstructed at full size to be walked through.
GifuMuseumsTajimi
Tajimi Mosaic Tile Museum
Terunobu Fujimori shaped the building like the clay pit itself, its walls studded with tiles so the architecture is the specimen.
GifuMuseumsToki
Toki Mino Ceramics History Museum
Sherds from the kilns that fired Shino and Oribe - technique read from the failures rather than the finished pots.
GifuMuseumsMizunami
Mizunami Ceramics Museum
From Momoyama tea ware to modern export porcelain, including the designs made purely for foreign markets.
GifuMuseumsKani
Arakawa Toyozo Museum
The man who found a Shino sherd in these hills and proved Momoyama tea ware was made in Mino, not Kyoto.
GifuMuseumsSeki
Seki Sword Tradition Museum
Smiths forge in public here on set days - the sparks and the sound included in what is shown.
GifuMuseumsMino
Mino Washi Museum
Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.
GifuMuseumsKakamigahara
Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.
ShizuokaMuseumsAtami
Sawada Seiko Memorial Museum
A wood sculptor from Atami who carved Buddhist images by the methods of modern sculpture.
ShizuokaMuseumsFujinomiya
Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka
An inverted cone of cypress lattice whose reflection forms the mountain; the spiral inside stands in for the climb.
ShizuokaMuseumsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.
AichiMuseumsSeto
Setogura Museum
A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.
AichiMuseumsSeto
Maneki-neko Museum
Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
INAX Live Museum
Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.
AichiMuseumsTahara
Tahara City Museum
The largest holding of Watanabe Kazan, the samurai painter who brought Western shading into Japanese portraiture.
AichiMuseumsToyohashi
Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History
In the old castle park, holding work by Nakamura Fusetsu, who was both calligrapher and oil painter.
AichiMuseumsHanda
Niimi Nankichi Memorial Museum
A children's writer's museum sunk into the ground with a grass roof, so as not to disturb the fields he wrote about.