Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
A systematic 20th-century collection, holding one of the very few Klimt oils in Japan.
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A systematic 20th-century collection, holding one of the very few Klimt oils in Japan.
Four collecting pillars, including a rare Japanese holding of the Mexican muralists, in a Kurokawa building.
The Owari Tokugawa treasury intact, including the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls - shown a few scenes a year, each November.
A palace burned in 1945 and rebuilt in real timber from surveys and photographs, its Kano-school gold rooms recreated.
The treasury of the shrine of the sacred sword, holding over 6,000 dedicated blades shown in rotation.
Three centuries of French painting hung in order, with a room where visitors may sit on Galle and Majorelle furniture.
Its annex is a fine sukiya house, where tea is served looking into the garden.
Tea utensils rearranged each season according to the logic of a tea gathering, not of art history.
Edo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.
Over a hundred distinct resist techniques - tied, stitched, clamped - grown as souvenirs for travellers on the Tokaido.
A highway street of shibori wholesalers, their thick fireproof plaster fronts still standing.
A restrained, near-monochrome yuzen; the related craft dyes a kimono black while leaving the family crest white.
Silver wires outline the design on copper before the enamel is laid in; Meiji exports made it famous worldwide.
Among Japan's largest public ceramics museums, running from the ancient Sanage kilns to the present, with kiln sites on the grounds.
A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.
Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.
The oldest and largest of the six ancient kilns; its iron-rich clay fires vermilion, and its teapots are said to soften the tea.
A lane paved and walled with discarded clay pipes and bottles - industrial waste become the fabric of the town.
Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.
Sixty-seven Meiji buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here, including the entrance of Wright's Imperial Hotel.
A National Treasure keep, small but placed on a cliff above the river - the siting is the castle's whole argument.