KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
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KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Nomura Art Museum
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
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Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.
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Kawai Kanjiro's House
The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyo Ware and Kiyomizu Ware
Not tied to local clay: materials were brought in from everywhere to meet each commission, which is why the styles multiplied.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Karakami Woodblock Paper
Mica pressed from woodblocks onto paper by hand, so the pattern appears and vanishes as the light moves.
KyotoArt & CraftsŌyamazaki
Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum
Tadao Ando buried a concrete cylinder beside a Taisho English villa; Monet's water lilies hang inside the circle.
Kyoto
Kyoto Dolls and Joinery
Head, hair, limbs and costume are each made by a different specialist - the division of labour on which nearly all Kyoto craft runs.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Held to be the world's finest collection of Chinese and Korean ceramics, shown in cases lit by daylight so the celadon reads true.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Fujita Museum
Fujita Denzaburo bought up treasures scattered when Meiji Japan turned on Buddhism; his Yohen Tenmoku is one of only three.
OsakaArt & CraftsOsaka
Yuki Museum of Art
Tea utensils gathered by the founder of the Kitcho restaurants - vessels chosen by a cook's eye.
OsakaArt & CraftsIkeda
Itsuo Art Museum
The collection of the man who built the Hankyu railway, holding the largest group of paintings by the haiku poet Buson.
OsakaMuseumsSuita
Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Osaka
The folk-craft pavilion of Expo '70 kept as a museum, continuing Yanagi's collecting in western Japan.
OsakaMuseumsSuita
National Museum of Ethnology
Among the world's largest ethnology museums, arranged region by region without hierarchy - diversity of form as the exhibit.
Sakai
Sakai Rishonomori
On Sen no Rikyu and the poet Akiko Yosano, both born here; tea is served in a copy of Rikyu's own room.
OsakaArt & CraftsIzumi
Kuboso Memorial Museum
Founded on a cotton family's gift; its celadon vase and Heian manuscript are both National Treasures.
OsakaArt & CraftsSakai
Incense of Sakai
Incense making began where the aromatic woods landed; blending and forming are still separate trades.
HyogoMuseumsKobe
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
HyogoArt & CraftsKobe
Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
In the Tamba pottery district, running from medieval kilns to the present, and working with the studios next door.
HyogoArt & CraftsTanba-Sasayama
Tamba Ware
One of the six ancient kilns, and the only district in Japan where the kick wheel turns anticlockwise.
HyogoArchitectureToyooka
Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
HyogoArt & CraftsToyooka
Toyooka Willow Craft
A basket in the 8th-century Shosoin is said to come from here; willow weaving later made this Japan's luggage capital.