HokkaidoArt & CraftsAsahikawa
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art
Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.
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HokkaidoArt & CraftsKushiro
Akanko Ainu Kotan
A settlement of some thirty Ainu woodcarving workshops, where the carving is done in the open and bought directly from the maker.
HokkaidoMuseumsAbashiri
Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples
Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Otaru Art Base
Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsOtaru
Kitaichi Glass Hall 3
A glassworks that made fishing floats and oil lamps; a hall lit by 167 of those lamps became the image of the whole town.
HokkaidoMuseumsBiratori
Nibutani Ainu Culture Museum
Nibutani's wood carving and bark weaving are the only Ainu crafts designated traditional by the state - and the makers still live here.
HokkaidoArt & CraftsEbetsu
Ebetsu Ceramic Art Center
In a brick-making town: exhibitions of ceramics beside a workshop where visitors handle the clay themselves.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse
Paper-and-light figures built for one night and destroyed after it, kept here year-round inside a ribboned red steel shell.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru-han Neputa Village
Festival floats shown beside working demonstrations of lacquer, kogin stitching and goldfish lanterns, close enough to question the makers.
AomoriMuseumsHachinohe
Hachinohe City Museum
On the site of a medieval fortress, with the extravagant hats of the Enburi harvest rite as its most striking objects.
AomoriArt & CraftsShichinohe
Takayama Uichi Memorial Museum of Art
A Surrealist-inflected painter from this town, shown beside the collection of lamps from around the world he assembled.
AomoriMuseumsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Museum
Lantern figures as tall as a seven-storey building, on view all year - and rebuilt from scratch in the same hall each season.
Goshogawara
Tsugaru Kanayama Ware
Unglazed stoneware coloured only by wood ash, using local clay and earth dug from a former reservoir.
AomoriMuseumsKuroishi
Tsugaru Kokeshi Museum
Four thousand kokeshi from across Japan; only by lining them up does it become clear how differently each lineage draws a face.
Hirakawa
Hirakawa Neputa Festival
A twelve-metre fan-shaped lantern paraded through the town - a festival in which the painters of the warrior scenes are the principals.
Aomori
Yu-sa Asamushi
A seaside facility with a bathhouse looking over the bay, quietly running small exhibitions of local artists.
AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Nebuta Festival
Three-dimensional warrior figures of wire and paper, made from nothing each year by professional makers, and used once.
AomoriArt & CraftsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Workshop
Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Handi-Works Square
Fourteen workshops under one roof, where visitors watch and try the crafts themselves.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Museum of Oni
A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.
IwateMuseumsKuji
Kuji Amber Museum
Japan's main amber field, where 90-million-year-old resin is dug, polished and carved on site.
Ninohe
Nambu Chest
Chests of zelkova wood fitted with hand-forged iron mounts, made by two trades working in tandem.