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Tokamachi City Museum
Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.
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Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
One of the world's largest rural art festivals: 760 square kilometres of farmland, where finding the works means touring the hamlets.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshi Hara's cloister of galleries around a square pool, the building working as a frame for the art.
NiigataArt & CraftsTokamachi
Matsudai Nohbutai
A raised building for looking at rice terraces; Kabakov's figures stand in the real field, overlaying poem on landscape.
NiigataContemporary ArtTokamachi
Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel
An existing tunnel remade as an artwork; a film of water on the floor doubles the gorge in perfect symmetry.
NiigataArt & CraftsMinamiuonuma
Echigo Jofu Ramie Cloth
Ramie split by fingernail, spun by hand, woven, then bleached on the snow; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
Minamiuonuma
Shiozawa Tsumugi
The ramie technique applied to silk, its kasuri dots so small the pattern is named after mosquitoes.
NiigataArt & CraftsOjiya
Ojiya Chijimi
Hard-twisted weft crinkled by hot water into a summer cloth that never clings; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
NiigataContemporary ArtOjiya
Nishikigoi Carp
Two centuries of selecting colour and pattern in terrace-fed ponds - a design carried out through living animals.
NiigataMuseumsTsubame
Tsubame Industrial Museum
A metalworking town's archive, following a single copper sheet as hammering turns it into a vessel.
Tsubame
Gyokusendo
Two centuries of raising copper vessels - spout and body from a single sheet, without a join.
NiigataArt & CraftsSanjo
Sanjo Blacksmith Dojo
A blade town that began by forging nails for Edo; its forge is open, the fire worked in front of visitors.
Kamo
Kamo Paulownia Chests
A major share of Japan's paulownia chests; the wood swells with humidity, sealing the drawers by itself.
Murakami
Murakami Carved Lacquer
Carved wood layered with a dozen coats of lacquer and matted down; use wears the surface until the red shows through.
NiigataArchitectureMurakami
Townhouses of Murakami
A castle-town street of living merchant houses; each spring the families set out their inherited dolls, turning homes into galleries.
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Fukiya Koji Memorial Museum
For an illustrator whose lyrical girls filled Taisho magazines, in a white building by Shozo Uchii.
Izumozaki
Ryokan Memorial Museum
The calligraphy of a begging monk whose deliberately artless line reshaped modern Japanese writing.
NiigataArt & CraftsKashiwazaki
Kimura Tea Ceremony Museum
Visitors drink from the collection's own bowls - a museum that hands over its objects rather than glazing them in.
Joetsu
Kobayashi Kokei Memorial Museum of Art
For a Nihonga painter who reduced everything to line; his house and studio by Isoya Yoshida stand restored beside it.
NiigataArchitectureJoetsu
Gangi Arcades of Takada
Householders gave up their own frontage to roof a continuous walkway - 16 kilometres of it, the longest in Japan.
NiigataArt & CraftsSado
Mumyoi Ware
Made from iron-rich earth taken from the gold mine, fired so hard the pots ring like metal.
NiigataArchitectureSado
Noh Stages of Sado
Over thirty Noh stages survive on this island - a third of all those left in Japan, one to a village.
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Sado Museum
An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.