GifuMuseumsKani
Arakawa Toyozo Museum
The man who found a Shino sherd in these hills and proved Momoyama tea ware was made in Mino, not Kyoto.
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GifuArchitectureMino
Udatsu Townscape of Mino
Firewalls between houses grew into displays of wealth here - the origin of a Japanese idiom for getting ahead in life.
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Hon-Minoshi Paper
Paper made here survives in the 8th-century Shosoin; fibres crossed both ways make it thin, even and hard to tear.
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition
Paper light sculptures set out along the old street, with the town's own lamps switched off for the night.
GifuArt & CraftsSeki
Seki Blades
Swordsmiths gathered here from the 1300s; the town still ships blades worldwide.
GifuMuseumsSeki
Seki Sword Tradition Museum
Smiths forge in public here on set days - the sparks and the sound included in what is shown.
GifuArt & CraftsSeki
Enku Buddhas
The monk Enku carved with a hatchet as he walked Japan; over 5,000 survive, smiling out of raw split wood.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Sanmachi District, Takayama
A merchant town under direct shogunal rule, its eaves heights and lattice spacing aligned along the whole street.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Takayama Festival Floats
Floats into which the Hida craftsmen poured everything - carving, lacquer, metalwork and clockwork puppets.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Takayama Jinya
The only shogunal magistrate's office left standing in Japan - office, residence and granary intact as one complex.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Kusakabe Folk Museum
A merchant house whose massive beam frame was deliberately left exposed to display the Hida carpenters' skill.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Yoshijima Family Residence
A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Ichii Wood Carving
Carved from yew and never painted, so the wood's red and white heartwood does the work and deepens with age.
Takayama
Hida Shunkei Lacquer
Clear lacquer that reveals rather than hides the grain, so choosing the wood decides the finished piece.
Takayama
Carpenters of Hida
In the Nara period Hida paid its tax in carpenters sent to the capital; that lineage runs through everything built here.
GifuArchitectureHida
Setogawa Canal, Hida Furukawa
A canal of carp running beside white storehouses, the town regulating even the colour of its signs.
GifuArt & CraftsHida
Hida City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.
GifuArchitectureShirakawa
Shirakawa-go Gassho Villages
Roofs pitched near 60 degrees against the snow, rethatched by the whole village working together under an old mutual-aid system.
GifuArchitectureGujo
Gujo Hachiman
Spring water is channelled past every door for washing and firefighting, with strict rules on the order of use.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Indigo Dyeing
Dyed in live indigo vats without chemicals, then rinsed in the winter river - a sight the town turns out for.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Food Samples of Gujo
Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.
GifuArt & CraftsOgaki
Moriya Tadashi Art Museum
Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.
GifuContemporary ArtYoro
Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro
A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.
GifuArchitectureEna
Iwamura Historic District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a merchant street running 1.3 kilometres.
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