Takayama
Carpenters of Hida
In the Nara period Hida paid its tax in carpenters sent to the capital; that lineage runs through everything built here.
Japan library12,708 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
12,708ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
12,708 entries / page 132 of 530
GifuArchitectureHida
Setogawa Canal, Hida Furukawa
A canal of carp running beside white storehouses, the town regulating even the colour of its signs.
GifuArt & CraftsHida
Hida City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.
GifuArchitectureShirakawa
Shirakawa-go Gassho Villages
Roofs pitched near 60 degrees against the snow, rethatched by the whole village working together under an old mutual-aid system.
GifuArchitectureGujo
Gujo Hachiman
Spring water is channelled past every door for washing and firefighting, with strict rules on the order of use.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Indigo Dyeing
Dyed in live indigo vats without chemicals, then rinsed in the winter river - a sight the town turns out for.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Food Samples of Gujo
Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.
GifuArt & CraftsOgaki
Moriya Tadashi Art Museum
Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.
GifuContemporary ArtYoro
Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro
A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.
GifuArchitectureEna
Iwamura Historic District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a merchant street running 1.3 kilometres.
GifuArchitectureGero
Gero Gassho Village
Gassho houses moved from a valley about to be dammed; visitors can climb into the lofts built for silkworms.
GifuContemporary ArtMotosu
Usuzumi Cherry of Neodani
One of Japan's three great cherries, named for the ink-grey the petals turn as they fall.
GifuArchitectureEna
Japan Taisho Village
A whole town preserving its Taisho-era offices and clinics, keeping one layer of provincial modernity intact.
GifuArchitectureTajimi
Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
GifuArt & CraftsKani
Furuta Oribe
A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.
GifuMuseumsMino
Mino Washi Museum
Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.
GifuArchitectureOgaki
Suimon River, Ogaki
Where Basho ended The Narrow Road; a town of springs, its river landing steps and stone lantern still in place.
GifuContemporary ArtSekigahara
Sekigahara Battlefield
Armies were placed around a ring of hills; the relation of terrain to formation can still be walked.
GifuMuseumsKakamigahara
Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.
GifuArchitectureTakayama
Hida Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.
Mino
Paper Crafts of Mino
A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
GifuArchitectureHida
Kamioka Mine
A town built around a mine, its company housing stepped up the slope beside the tunnel mouths.