HyogoMuseumsHimeji
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
Kenzo Tange placed it so the castle reflects in its glass - the museum working as a frame for the castle.
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Hakushika Sake Museum
An Edo brewery rebuilt after the earthquake, showing the tools and the building as one subject.
HyogoMuseumsTakarazuka
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum
Tezuka grew up in this town; his corrected and redrawn pages show how volume and handwork were held together.
HyogoMuseumsItami
Kakimori Bunko
One of Japan's great haiku archives, holding autograph works by Basho, Buson and Issa.
HyogoMuseumsAkashi
Akashi City Museum of Culture
In the town the standard meridian runs through, on its long role as a crossing point of the inland sea.
Nara
Todaiji Museum
Clay figures moved from the hall and set at eye level, where before they could only be looked up at.
NaraMuseumsIkaruga
Fujinoki Tomb
An unlooted coffin yielded gilt-bronze horse trappings pierced with elephants and phoenixes - evidence of continental contact.
NaraMuseumsKashihara
Kashihara Archaeological Museum
The museum of the institute that has excavated this basin for eighty years, laying out the formation of the Japanese state in objects.
NaraMuseumsAsuka
Takamatsuzuka Tomb
The painted women found here in 1972, in Tang and Goguryeo style, rewrote the history of painting in Japan.
NaraMuseumsAsuka
Kitora Tomb
Four directional beasts on four walls and a star chart on the ceiling - the only tomb where all four survive.
NaraMuseumsTenri
Tenri University Sankokan Museum
An ethnology museum of household objects from around the world, among Japan's best for foreign material.
NaraMuseumsTawaramoto
Karako-Kagi Site
A tower drawn on a pot was used to reconstruct the building - architecture recovered from a picture.
WakayamaMuseumsWakayama
Wakayama Prefectural Museum
The twin of the art museum next door, built around Kumano pilgrimage material and the Kishu Tokugawa collection.
WakayamaMuseumsShirahama
Minakata Kumagusu Museum
A naturalist who studied slime moulds and fought to save sacred forests; his drawings and notebooks survive.
WakayamaMuseumsTanabe
Minakata Kumagusu Archives
His house and library kept as they were - including the way the books were piled.
WakayamaMuseumsShingu
Sato Haruo Memorial Museum
The poet's Tokyo house was dismantled and rebuilt in his home town - a building returned to its birthplace.
WakayamaMuseumsTaiji
Taiji Whale Museum
Records of old-style whaling; the painted fleet formations read as working diagrams for collective labour.
TottoriMuseumsTottori
Tottori Folk Crafts Museum
Founded by a doctor who did not merely collect folk craft but commissioned new designs from living potters.
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Tottori Prefectural Museum
At the foot of the castle hill, holding the Ikeda lords' furnishings and the province's art.
TottoriMuseumsSakaiminato
Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
Original pages showing how he drew backgrounds in obsessive detail and figures in almost none.
TottoriMuseumsDaisen
Mukibanda Site
One of Japan's largest Yayoi settlements, found just before a golf course was built and saved by local campaigning.
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Aoya Kamijichi Site
Groundwater preserved wooden and lacquered objects in quantity - a rare chance to see Yayoi lacquer work directly.
TottoriMuseumsYonago
Kamiyodo Temple Site
Fragments of wall painting contemporary with Horyuji's - proof the provinces held work of capital quality.
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