GifuArchitectureNakatsugawa
Magome-juku
A post town paved up a slope, its houses stepped along the hill; the novelist Toson Shimazaki was born here.
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GifuArchitectureGero
Gero Gassho Village
Gassho houses moved from a valley about to be dammed; visitors can climb into the lofts built for silkworms.
GifuContemporary ArtMotosu
Usuzumi Cherry of Neodani
One of Japan's three great cherries, named for the ink-grey the petals turn as they fall.
GifuArchitectureEna
Japan Taisho Village
A whole town preserving its Taisho-era offices and clinics, keeping one layer of provincial modernity intact.
GifuArchitectureTajimi
Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
GifuArt & CraftsKani
Furuta Oribe
A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.
GifuMuseumsMino
Mino Washi Museum
Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.
GifuArchitectureOgaki
Suimon River, Ogaki
Where Basho ended The Narrow Road; a town of springs, its river landing steps and stone lantern still in place.
GifuContemporary ArtSekigahara
Sekigahara Battlefield
Armies were placed around a ring of hills; the relation of terrain to formation can still be walked.
GifuMuseumsKakamigahara
Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Hida Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.
Mino
Paper Crafts of Mino
A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
GifuArchitectureHida
Kamioka Mine
A town built around a mine, its company housing stepped up the slope beside the tunnel mouths.
GifuArchitectureMotosu
Tarumi Railway
A single track following one valley, so track, river and cherry trees line up and the journey becomes the viewing.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Great Buddha
A great Buddha of bamboo, sutra-covered paper and lacquer - built not of bronze or wood but of paper.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Collecting landscape painting East and West, with a Rodin wing of 32 works including the Gates of Hell.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Shizuoka City Museum of Art
No collection of its own; a gallery set inside a station-front commercial building, in the middle of the commute.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum
For the Living National Treasure of stencil dyeing, in a stone building that ranks among Seiichi Shirai's best.
ShizuokaMuseums
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Bamboo Basketry
Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.
Shizuoka
Suruga Lacquerware
Begun when Ieyasu gathered craftsmen at his retirement capital, and carried from vessels into furniture.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsAtami
MOA Museum of Art
Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.
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