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Ohara Museum of Art
Japan's first museum of Western art, built on paintings a Kurashiki industrialist sent his own painter to Europe to buy.
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Kurashiki Bikan District
A shogunal depot town of white storehouses along a canal, its cables buried to keep the view.
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Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
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Kurashiki Archaeological Museum
In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.
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Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
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Ohashi Residence
A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.
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Former Nozaki Residence
The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.
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Kojima Denim
A tabi and school-uniform town that made Japan's first jeans; its old shuttle looms now supply the world.
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Kurashiki Canvas
Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.
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Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
Built around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.
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Hayashibara Museum of Art
Built on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.
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Okayama Orient Museum
One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
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Yumeji Art Museum
In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
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Okayama Castle
Clad in black-lacquered boards and nicknamed the crow castle, on an irregular pentagonal base.
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Kibitsu Shrine
Two hipped-gable roofs joined side by side in a form found in only this one building, with a 360-metre corridor down the hill.
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Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
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Inujima Art House Project
On an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.
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Bizen Ware
The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.
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Bizen Ware Museum
A museum centered on Bizen ware, ceramics and art, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.
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Shizutani School
Among the world's oldest schools built for commoners, roofed in Bizen tile and ringed by 765 metres of rounded stone wall.
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Bizen Osafune Sword Museum
In the greatest of Japan's five sword provinces, with working smiths, polishers and hilt-binders on site.
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Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.