NaganoArt & CraftsOkaya
Ilf Museum of Art
For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.
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NaganoMuseumsOkaya
Okaya Silk Museum
Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.
NaganoMuseumsChino
Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum
The only museum holding two National Treasure clay figures - the swelling Venus and the masked goddess.
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NaganoArt & CraftsUeda
KAITA EPITAPH
Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
NaganoArchitectureUeda
Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda
Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.
NaganoArchitectureUeda
Zensanji Pagoda
A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.
Ueda
Ueda Tsumugi
Said to last three generations; its striped and checked colourways follow local conventions.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Hokusaikan
Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.
Obuse
Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery
A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.
NaganoArchitectureObuse
Obuse Townscape Project
Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Karuizawa New Art Museum
A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.
NaganoArchitectureKaruizawa
Stone Church, Uchimura Kanzo Memorial
Alternating arches of stone and glass drop bands of light and dark - organic architecture in the Wright lineage.
NaganoArchitectureKaruizawa
Former Mikasa Hotel
A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.
NaganoArchitectureNagiso
Tsumago-juku
The first town in Japan to organise its own preservation, under three rules its residents set: do not sell, lend, or destroy.
NaganoArchitectureShiojiri
Narai-juku
The longest post town on the Nakasendo: a kilometre of houses with jettied upper floors, lined with lacquer shops.
NaganoArt & CraftsShiojiri
Kiso Lacquerware
Iron-rich local earth in the ground coat makes it exceptionally tough; it grew as souvenirs for travellers on the highway.
Nagiso
Nagiso Woodturning
Kiso hardwoods turned on the lathe and often left unlacquered, so choosing the timber is the real skill.
NaganoContemporary ArtChikuma
Obasute Rice Terraces
The moon reflected in each separate paddy - a subject for painters since the Edo period.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuzaka
Suzaka Classic Museum
In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.
NaganoArchitectureSuzaka
Storehouse Town of Suzaka
Storehouses built on silk money, now kept alive by conversion into shops and galleries.
Nakano
Nakano Clay Dolls
Two families keep two separate moulds and palettes in the same town - an unusual survival of parallel lineages.
NaganoArt & CraftsIna
Stone Carvers of Takato
Takato's masons travelled the country carving; one of them, Sadaji Moriya, recorded 336 images in his lifetime.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple