Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts
A public museum devoted entirely to prints - rare anywhere - with workshops where the techniques are demonstrated.
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A public museum devoted entirely to prints - rare anywhere - with workshops where the techniques are demonstrated.
A private collection running unbroken from the Renaissance to the 20th century - rare in Japan.
An art university's museum out in the town, linking its research to the public.
A small museum on the seventh floor of a shopping building, with a room for Yozo Hamaguchi's colour mezzotints.
A venue narrowed to pictures and words, showing picture-book and manga originals with museum discipline.
A museum with about 4,000 items centered on combs and hairpins - lacquer, tortoiseshell, coral - and the techniques poured into hair ornaments.
Silk dyed yellow, brown and black using only the island's own plants, from dye pot to loom.
Kasuri patterns dyed by clamping threads between carved boards - an Amami technique reworked near Tokyo.
Stencil patterns so fine the cloth reads as plain from a distance; still dyed along the Kanda river.
A single silver sheet raised into a vessel by hammer, a line of Edo metalwork still worked in backstreet studios.
Designer, carver and printer each do their part; the colours are still layered block by block as they were.
The zero milestone of Japan's highways, guarded by winged kirin cast in bronze.
Cedar from all 47 prefectures lines the eaves, each set facing the direction of its own province.
Projected environments that respond to visitors' movement, which established permanent digital art venues in Japan.
Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.
An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
On the site of the home of Kiyokata, the last great painter of bijinga, who drew the ordinary streets of Meiji Tokyo.
Wood carved first, then lacquered - a Japanese answer to Chinese carved lacquer, arrived at by splitting the trades.
Among the first Japanese museums to collect photography seriously, and the symmetrical anchor of the Minato Mirai axis.
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.