Kamakura Museum
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
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Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.
For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.
A literature archive rich in book design and illustration - as much about the made book as the text.
A cosmetics plant in Shonan. It links research on lactic acid bacteria to cosmetics.
The advanced research institute in Kaisei researches materials for imaging and medicine.
A research and development base in Ebina. It handles imaging equipment.
Kioxia in Yokohama. It researches semiconductor memory.
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Yokosuka. It researches wireless communications.
The environment research institute in Kawasaki. It measures the environment of the coastal area.