Kurashiki Canvas
Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.
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Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.
Built around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.
Built on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.
One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
Clad in black-lacquered boards and nicknamed the crow castle, on an irregular pentagonal base.
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
On an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.
The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.
A museum centered on Bizen ware, ceramics and art, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.
Among the world's oldest schools built for commoners, roofed in Bizen tile and ringed by 765 metres of rounded stone wall.
In the greatest of Japan's five sword provinces, with working smiths, polishers and hilt-binders on site.
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.
A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.
This domain produced a line of Dutch-studies scholars who coined the Japanese words for oxygen and cell.
Kasuri farmers once wove for themselves; the craft died out and has been brought back.
A copper and red-ochre town where every house is painted in the pigment it made, under matching red tiles.
The making of red iron-oxide pigment, which went into Kutani porcelain and Wajima lacquer alike.
Castle-scale stone walls raised on a mountainside to carry one house - copper and pigment money made visible.
The highest of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, its walls built straight onto the natural rock.
An early garden by Kobori Enshu, made in his twenties: clipped azalea as waves, stones as islands.
For a sculptor who carved until he was 107, and who past a hundred bought thirty years' worth of timber.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.