NaganoArchitectureUeda
Zensanji Pagoda
A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.
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NaganoArchitectureUeda
Ueda Tsumugi
Said to last three generations; its striped and checked colourways follow local conventions.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Hokusaikan
Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.
Obuse
Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery
A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.
NaganoArchitectureObuse
Obuse Townscape Project
Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.
NaganoArt & CraftsKaruizawa
Karuizawa New Art Museum
A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.
NaganoArchitectureKaruizawa
Stone Church, Uchimura Kanzo Memorial
Alternating arches of stone and glass drop bands of light and dark - organic architecture in the Wright lineage.
NaganoArchitectureKaruizawa
Former Mikasa Hotel
A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.
NaganoArt & CraftsShiojiri
Kiso Lacquerware
Iron-rich local earth in the ground coat makes it exceptionally tough; it grew as souvenirs for travellers on the highway.
Nagiso
Nagiso Woodturning
Kiso hardwoods turned on the lathe and often left unlacquered, so choosing the timber is the real skill.
NaganoContemporary ArtChikuma
Obasute Rice Terraces
The moon reflected in each separate paddy - a subject for painters since the Edo period.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuzaka
Suzaka Classic Museum
In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.
NaganoArchitectureSuzaka
Storehouse Town of Suzaka
Storehouses built on silk money, now kept alive by conversion into shops and galleries.
Nakano
Nakano Clay Dolls
Two families keep two separate moulds and palettes in the same town - an unusual survival of parallel lineages.
NaganoArt & CraftsIna
Stone Carvers of Takato
Takato's masons travelled the country carving; one of them, Sadaji Moriya, recorded 336 images in his lifetime.
NaganoContemporary ArtIna
Takato Castle Site
Fifteen hundred trees of a cherry unique to this place, flowering along the line of the old earthworks.
NaganoArchitectureNagano
Matsushiro Samurai Town
The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.
Nagano
Togakushi Bamboo Craft
Baskets woven from bamboo bent by snow, made at the gate of a mountain of ascetics for the pilgrims who came.
NaganoArt & CraftsNagano
Shinshu Shinmachi Museum of Art
A small municipal museum in the hills, centred on the painter Ikuma Arishima.
NaganoArt & Crafts
NaganoContemporary ArtAzumino
Wasabi Fields of Azumino
Fields fed by Alpine groundwater, their stone channels and water wheels making a landscape out of farm equipment.
NaganoArt & CraftsAzumino
Roadside Deities of Azumino
Over five hundred paired stone deities stand along these roads - holding hands, pouring wine, no two alike.
NaganoContemporary ArtIida
Ina Valley Terraces
Villages and fields ranked on river terraces - the steps of the terrain become the steps of land use.