AichiArchitectureHanda
Handa Canal
A canal that shipped vinegar and sake to Edo, lined with black-boarded brewery warehouses.
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AichiArt & CraftsToyohashi
Oni Festival of Toyohashi
A red demon and a tengu do battle and scatter white powder; the masks are repaired and handed down.
MieArt & CraftsTsu
Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Systematic in Soga Shohaku, the eccentric Edo ink painter who stayed long in this province and left his work behind.
MieMuseumsTsu
Mie Prefectural Museum
Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.
MieArt & CraftsTsu
Sekisui Museum
Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.
MieMuseumsIse
Jingu Chokokan Museum
A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.
MieMuseumsIse
Sengukan Museum
The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.
MieArchitectureIse
Kawasaki Merchant District, Ise
The wholesalers' quarter that supplied the pilgrim trade, its storehouses opening straight onto the river.
MieArt & CraftsSuzuka
Ise Katagami Stencils
Stencils for dyeing kimono, sometimes cut with over a hundred holes per square centimetre - admired abroad as art in themselves.
Suzuka
Suzuka Traditional Crafts Hall
On stencil cutting and inkstick making, with carvers working in front of visitors.
Suzuka
Suzuka Inksticks
Soot from burnt rapeseed oil kneaded with glue; the fineness of the particles decides the ink's colour and bleed.
MieArt & CraftsYokkaichi
Banko Ware
Eighty percent of Japan's clay pots; the district developed a heat-proof body, and its unglazed teapots fire purple-brown.
Yokkaichi
Banko no Sato Hall
The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.
MieArchitecture
MieArt & CraftsKuwana
Kuwana Ironware
Casting since the Edo period, from cooking pots to - today - a large share of Japan's manhole covers.
MieArt & CraftsKuwana
Kuwana Senbazuru
Multiple cranes folded from one sheet, still joined; a 1797 book records 49 different configurations.
MieArt & CraftsKomono
Paramita Museum
Permanently shows Masuo Ikeda's late ceramic Heart Sutra series, in a sculpture garden facing the Suzuka range.
MieArchitecture
MieArchitectureMatsusaka
Matsusaka Merchant House
A cotton merchant's home town house: plain to the street, lavish within - the merchant code in built form.
MieMuseumsMatsusaka
Motoori Norinaga Memorial Museum
The scholar who spent 35 years deciphering the Kojiki; his manuscripts survive, and the study he hung with bells.
MieMuseumsMatsusaka
Matsuura Takeshiro Memorial Museum
The man who walked Ezo six times and proposed the name Hokkaido; he built a one-mat study from old timbers gathered nationwide.
Matsusaka
Matsusaka Cotton
Striped cotton that swept Edo: sober enough to slip past sumptuary law, but luxurious in the quality of its thread.
MieArt & CraftsIga
Iga Braided Cords
Silk threads crossed on a wooden stand; the craft moved from sword cords to kimono sashes and survived.