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ShizuokaArchitectureAtami
Sawada Seiko Memorial Museum
A wood sculptor from Atami who carved Buddhist images by the methods of modern sculpture.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsItō
Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art
Collects 20th-century art on one theme alone - the human figure; Japan's first museum devoted to that century.
ShizuokaArchitectureShimoda
Uehara Museum of Art
A Buddhist wing and a modern wing, built on decades of surveying the Buddhist sculpture of the peninsula.
ShizuokaArchitectureShimoda
Namako Walls of Shimoda
Flat tiles fixed to the wall with plaster ridged over the joints - fireproofing that became a black-and-white grid.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMatsuzaki
Izu Chohachi Art Museum
For Chohachi Irie, who modelled pictures in plaster with a trowel; plasterers came from all Japan to build the museum itself.
ShizuokaArchitectureMatsuzaki
Namako Walls of Matsuzaki
Nearly two hundred namako-walled buildings, the plasterers' art left where it belongs - on ordinary houses.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMishima
Sano Art Museum
A private museum of Japanese swords, its lighting designed specifically to reveal the grain and temper line of a blade.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsMishima
Mishima Taisha Treasure Hall
A Kamakura-period lacquer box, National Treasure: plum branches in gold powder with shell inlay, a summit of medieval craft.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsNagaizumi
Bernard Buffet Museum
Built for a living painter; the world's largest holding of Bernard Buffet, in a building by Kiyonori Kikutake.
ShizuokaMuseumsFujinomiya
Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka
An inverted cone of cypress lattice whose reflection forms the mountain; the spiral inside stands in for the climb.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Shiseido Art House
A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.
ShizuokaArchitectureKakegawa
Kakegawa Castle
The first castle keep rebuilt in real timber after the war, beside one of only seven surviving castle palaces.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art
In the castle park, with prints and maps of the Tokaido highway through this town.
ShizuokaMuseumsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Akino Fuku Museum
For a Nihonga painter who kept returning to India; Fujimori built it of earth and paper, and visitors walk it barefoot.
Hamamatsu
Enshu Textiles
One of Japan's three great cotton districts, where mills deliberately keep old shuttle looms to weave a slower, thicker cloth.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Kites of the Hamamatsu Festival
A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.
ShizuokaArchitectureIzunokuni
Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces
The only reverberatory furnace anywhere that actually cast cannon and still stands; a World Heritage site.
ShizuokaArchitectureIzunokuni
Egawa Residence
The house of a hereditary magistrate, its great diagonal roof frame left open above the earthen floor.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShimada
Shitoro Ware
One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.
Shimada
Horai Bridge
The world's longest wooden footbridge, built to open tea fields and still re-planked and in use.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtMakinohara
Tea Fields of Makinohara
Tea fields opened by samurai who gave up their swords; rows follow the contours, and frost fans stand like a forest.
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