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AkitaMuseumsYokote
Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Kawatsura Lacquerware
Finished by brush without polishing, this lacquer was always made for daily bowls, not display.
Yuzawa
Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
AkitaMuseumsOga
Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
Oga
Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
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Ani Matagi Museum
The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.
Odate
Odate Bentwood Ware
Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.
AkitaArt & CraftsOdate
Akita Cedar Cooperage
Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.
Odate
Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
AkitaArchitectureNoshiro
Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.
AkitaMuseumsNikaho
Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum
Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.
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AkitaMuseumsYurihonjo
Honjo Local Museum
Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.
AkitaArt & CraftsDaisen
Naraoka Ware
Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.
AkitaContemporary ArtDaisen
Omagari Fireworks
The only contest where pyrotechnicians compete on their own designs, including composed 'creative' shells.
AkitaArt & CraftsKazuno
Hanawa Bayashi
Ten floats of lacquer and gilt metal, called moving works of craft, play through the night.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Inukko Festival
Dogs modelled in rice flour and set in snow shrines, a form kept for four centuries.
AkitaContemporary ArtŌgata
Hachirogata Reclaimed Land
A village made by draining a lake: ruler-straight roads and fields running to the horizon.
AkitaMuseumsŌgata
Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
Akita
Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi
A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Ranga
A school born when a samurai learned Western technique from Hiraga Gennai - and gone within a decade.