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Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
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Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
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Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
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Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
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Museum of Kyoto
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
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Ryukoku Museum
Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.
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Sen-oku Hakukokan
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
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Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
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Raku Museum
Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.
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Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
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Nomura Art Museum
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.
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Yurinkan Museum
Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.
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Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
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Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.
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Kawai Kanjiro's House
The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.
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Nishijin Textiles
Named for the camp of a 15th-century war where the weavers regrouped; still built on small runs and divided labour.
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Kyo Yuzen Dyeing
Paste is drawn along every outline to keep the colours apart, leaving the fine white line that identifies the technique.
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Kyo Ware and Kiyomizu Ware
Not tied to local clay: materials were brought in from everywhere to meet each commission, which is why the styles multiplied.
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Karakami Woodblock Paper
Mica pressed from woodblocks onto paper by hand, so the pattern appears and vanishes as the light moves.
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Nijo Castle Ninomaru Palace
Subject matter and ceiling height change with each room's rank, and every painting is composed for the shogun's own seat.
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Sanjusangendo
A 120-metre hall holding 1,001 life-size Kannon; 124 survive from the 1100s, and no two faces are the same.
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