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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.
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Medicine Peddlers' Woodblocks
The peddlers who walked all Japan handed out woodblock-printed papers and prints - a channel that carried pictures to ordinary homes.
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Toyama Prefectural Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center Forestry Research Institute
The prefecture's forestry research institute. It researches the steep forests of Tateyama and the cultivation of Japanese cedar.
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Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama
The Institute of Natural Medicine of the University of Toyama. It researches kampo medicine and natural products.