ShigaArchitectureMaibara
Samegai-juku
A spring-fed stream runs before every house on the old highway, its underwater flowers marking the water's purity.
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Kabata of Harie
Spring water piped into each kitchen and used in strict order - drinking, washing, then carp - the plan of the house set by water.
ShigaArchitectureHino
Hino Merchants and Sajiki Windows
Windows cut into garden walls so the family could watch the festival floats - a whole town designed as seating.
Koka
Tea Fields and Kilns of Koka
The valley they dug clay from and the hills they grow tea on lie side by side - two industries in one terrain.
Otsu
Buddhist Implements of Otsu
Serving the demand of Mt Hiei and Kyoto, workshops here still handle single stages of the trade.
ShigaArt & CraftsHikone
Hikone Butsudan
Armourers turned to altars in peacetime; seven separate trades now build each one.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
Shigaraki Tanuki
Spread nationwide after an imperial visit; each of the eight things the badger carries stands for a virtue.
ShigaContemporary ArtOmihachiman
Inner Lakes of Biwa
Reed beds between lake and land; the cut reeds become blinds and roofs, tying landscape directly to craft.
Nagahama
Shrine Cabinets of Kohoku
The cabinets that house the Kannon images survive village by village - the container itself a work of craft.
ShigaMuseumsHigashiomi
Omi Merchant Museum
On the trading method of the Omi merchants, read through their ledgers and the poles they carried goods on.
ShigaMuseumsRitto
Ritto Museum
An Edo farmhouse moved into its grounds, alongside the Buddhist images the surrounding villages kept.
Hikone
Castle Town of Hikone
Townhouses along the outer moat, their eaves and wall colours realigned in recent years to recover the Edo scale.
Omihachiman
Reed Screens of Omi
Lakeside reeds cut and woven into screens and thatch - wetland management and craft as a single job.
ShigaArt & CraftsHino
Hino Festival Floats
Floats decorated with merchant money, some hung with textiles brought from overseas.
ShigaMuseumsKusatsu
Fishing Gear of Lake Biwa
Bamboo weirs driven into the lake bed draw geometric lines across the water - a fishing method become a landscape.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Kyoto National Museum
The central repository for what Kyoto's temples and shrines have handed down, in Katayama's French Baroque halls.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Japan's oldest surviving public art museum building, updated by digging the ground away and sliding a glass entrance beneath it.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Treats craft as the equal of fine art; Fumihiko Maki's building sits quietly between a canal and a giant torii.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Hosomi Museum
Three generations of collecting Rinpa and Jakuchu, in a building that descends underground away from the street.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Jotenkaku Museum
Holds what Shokokuji and its sub-temples Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji kept, including Jakuchu's ink panels for the Golden Pavilion.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Museum of Kyoto
Its annex is Tatsuno's former Bank of Japan branch, red brick banded in white stone, still on Sanjo street.
KyotoMuseumsKyoto
Ryukoku Museum
Traces Buddhism's route from India to Japan, and rebuilds the lost Bezeklik cave murals at full size.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Sen-oku Hakukokan
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
KyotoArt & CraftsKyoto
Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.