AichiMuseumsAma
Shippo Art Village
In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.
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AichiMuseumsOkazaki
Stonemasons of Okazaki
Masons summoned to build the castle stayed; the town became Japan's source of stone lanterns and figures.
MieArt & CraftsTsu
Sekisui Museum
Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.
MieMuseumsIse
Sengukan Museum
The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.
MieArt & CraftsSuzuka
Ise Katagami Stencils
Stencils for dyeing kimono, sometimes cut with over a hundred holes per square centimetre - admired abroad as art in themselves.
Suzuka
Suzuka Inksticks
Soot from burnt rapeseed oil kneaded with glue; the fineness of the particles decides the ink's colour and bleed.
MieArt & CraftsYokkaichi
Banko Ware
Eighty percent of Japan's clay pots; the district developed a heat-proof body, and its unglazed teapots fire purple-brown.
Yokkaichi
Banko no Sato Hall
The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.
MieArt & CraftsKuwana
Kuwana Senbazuru
Multiple cranes folded from one sheet, still joined; a 1797 book records 49 different configurations.
MieArt & CraftsKomono
Paramita Museum
Permanently shows Masuo Ikeda's late ceramic Heart Sutra series, in a sculpture garden facing the Suzuka range.
MieArt & Crafts
MieMuseumsToba
Mikimoto Pearl Island
Where cultured pearls first succeeded; its Meiji exhibition pieces come apart and reassemble into different ornaments.
Kameyama
Candles of Kameyama
Candle making began in the Showa period and developed as a local industry; the Japanese candle is wound from paper and rush pith.
Ise
Gikakushi Paper of Ise
Paper lacquered and embossed to pass as leather, made for pilgrims, lost, and recently reconstructed.
ShigaArt & CraftsMoriyama
Sagawa Art Museum
Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Ware
One of the six ancient kilns; feldspar in the coarse clay bursts white through the surface, and fire and ash mark each pot differently.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park
Studio, gallery and research on one hill, hosting foreign artists to work in Shigaraki clay for over thirty years.
ShigaArt & CraftsNagahama
Kurokabe Square
Residents bought a black-plastered bank about to be demolished and rebuilt the town around glass - a case study nationwide.
Koka
Tea Fields and Kilns of Koka
The valley they dug clay from and the hills they grow tea on lie side by side - two industries in one terrain.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Tanuki
Spread nationwide after an imperial visit; each of the eight things the badger carries stands for a virtue.
Omihachiman
Reed Screens of Omi
Lakeside reeds cut and woven into screens and thatch - wetland management and craft as a single job.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
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.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
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.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
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.