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Tottori Folk Crafts Museum
Founded by a doctor who did not merely collect folk craft but commissioned new designs from living potters.
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Tottori Prefectural Museum
At the foot of the castle hill, holding the Ikeda lords' furnishings and the province's art.
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Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
Original pages showing how he drew backgrounds in obsessive detail and figures in almost none.
TottoriMuseumsDaisen
Mukibanda Site
One of Japan's largest Yayoi settlements, found just before a golf course was built and saved by local campaigning.
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Aoya Kamijichi Site
Groundwater preserved wooden and lacquered objects in quantity - a rare chance to see Yayoi lacquer work directly.
TottoriMuseumsYonago
Kamiyodo Temple Site
Fragments of wall painting contemporary with Horyuji's - proof the provinces held work of capital quality.
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Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
In the birthplace of Detective Conan's creator; the town is scattered with his characters, and even renamed its station.
TottoriMuseumsKurayoshi
Kurayoshi Figure Museum
In a circular former theatre, presenting figure sculpting as a branch of sculpture proper.
ShimaneMuseumsIzumo
Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo
Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.
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Kojindani Site
Three hundred and fifty-eight swords buried in four neat rows on one slope; nobody knows why.
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Kamo Iwakura Site
Thirty-nine bronze bells buried nested one inside another - the largest such find in Japan.
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Wako Museum
On tatara ironmaking, which produced the steel for Japanese swords using only iron sand and charcoal.
ShimaneMuseumsOkuizumo
Okuizumo Tatara and Sword Museum
The only place still smelting tamahagane for swords, in a furnace fired continuously for three days and nights.
ShimaneMuseumsMatsue
Fudoki no Oka
The places named in an 8th-century gazetteer are still where it says they are - text and ground still matching.
OkayamaMuseumsKurashiki
Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
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Kurashiki Archaeological Museum
In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.
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Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
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Okayama Orient Museum
One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
OkayamaMuseumsSetouchi
Bizen Osafune Sword Museum
In the greatest of Japan's five sword provinces, with working smiths, polishers and hilt-binders on site.
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Tsuyama Museum of Western Learning
This domain produced a line of Dutch-studies scholars who coined the Japanese words for oxygen and cell.
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Lucky Cat Museum
In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Kenzo Tange set it on axis with the Atomic Dome and lifted it on columns, so passing beneath frames the ruin ahead.
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Yamato Museum
On the technology of a shipbuilding city; its 26-metre model was built as a documentary object, rivet by rivet.