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Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum
For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.
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Yokohama Doll Museum
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
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Yokohama History Museum
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
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Fujiko F Fujio Museum
For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.
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Yamaguchi Hoshun Memorial Hall
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
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Sawada Miki Memorial Museum
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
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Sagamihara City Museum
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
Atsugi
Atsugi Local History Museum and Buddhist Statues of Sagami
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.
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Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
A literature archive rich in book design and illustration - as much about the made book as the text.
Niigata
Aizu Yaichi Memorial Museum
For the poet and art historian whose blunt, unadorned calligraphy stands apart in modern Japanese writing.
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Northern Culture Museum
The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.
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Niigata City History Museum
Keeps the only surviving customs house of Japan's five treaty ports, built at the end of the shogunate.
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Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
Systematic on the flame-shaped Jomon pots, and on snow-country life reconstructed at full size.
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Tokamachi City Museum
Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.
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Tsubame Industrial Museum
A metalworking town's archive, following a single copper sheet as hammering turns it into a vessel.
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Fukiya Koji Memorial Museum
For an illustrator whose lyrical girls filled Taisho magazines, in a white building by Shozo Uchii.
Izumozaki
Ryokan Memorial Museum
The calligraphy of a begging monk whose deliberately artless line reshaped modern Japanese writing.
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Sado Museum
An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.
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Flame-Shaped Pottery
Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.
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Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
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Toyama Folkcraft Village
Nine small museums on a hillside, treating even the tools and printing blocks of the medicine peddlers as craft.
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Aizen-en, Munakata Shiko's House
Munakata lived here for nearly seven years and painted directly onto the walls - even the lavatory - making the house itself the work.
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Toyama Prefectural Tateyama Museum
Holds Tateyama mandalas - paintings that mapped the mountain as heaven and hell, produced in numbers for pilgrims.
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Uozu Buried Forest Museum
Two-thousand-year-old cedar stumps displayed still submerged - natural masses presented as sculpture.