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Nagano Prefectural Art Museum
Rebuilt beside Zenkoji, its roof opened free to the public as a 'landscape museum' framing the town and mountains.
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Higashiyama Kaii Gallery
Holds the 970 works Higashiyama gave to the province, in a Taniguchi building reflected in still water.
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Kitano Museum of Art
A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.
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Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Yayoi Kusama was born here; her polka dots run from the permanent gallery out to the sculptures and even the vending machines.
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Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.
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Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum
Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.
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Former Kaichi School
The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Matsumoto Castle
A National Treasure keep, its black boards re-lacquered every year, with a moon-viewing turret added in peacetime.
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Craft Fair Matsumoto
The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.
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Chihiro Art Museum Azumino
For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.
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Rokuzan Art Museum
For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.
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Tabuchi Yukio Memorial Museum
A mountain photographer's archive, his images hung beside the minutely painted butterflies he also made.
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Toyoshina Museum of Modern Art
Sculpture set inside a Romanesque-styled building, centred on Hiroatsu Takata, who studied under Rodin's shadow.
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Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi
A picture-book gallery in a pine wood, showing the brushwork that printing always loses.
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Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
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Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
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Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira
Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.
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Ilf Museum of Art
For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.
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Okaya Silk Museum
Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.
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Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum
The only museum holding two National Treasure clay figures - the swelling Venus and the masked goddess.
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KAITA EPITAPH
Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
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Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda
Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.