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Okayama Orient Museum
One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
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Yumeji Art Museum
In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
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Inujima Seirensho Art Museum
A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
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Inujima Art House Project
On an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.
OkayamaArt & CraftsBizen
Bizen Ware
The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.
Bizen
Bizen Ware Museum
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.
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Bizen Osafune Sword Museum
In the greatest of Japan's five sword provinces, with working smiths, polishers and hilt-binders on site.
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OkayamaArt & CraftsNagi
Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art
The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.
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Joto District, Tsuyama
A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.
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Tsuyama Museum of Western Learning
This domain produced a line of Dutch-studies scholars who coined the Japanese words for oxygen and cell.
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Sakushu Kasuri
Kasuri farmers once wove for themselves; the craft died out and has been brought back.
OkayamaArt & CraftsTakahashi
Fukiya Bengara Museum
The making of red iron-oxide pigment, which went into Kutani porcelain and Wajima lacquer alike.
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Hirokane Residence
Castle-scale stone walls raised on a mountainside to carry one house - copper and pigment money made visible.
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Raikyuji Garden
An early garden by Kobori Enshu, made in his twenties: clipped azalea as waves, stones as islands.
Ibara
Denchu Art Museum
For a sculptor who carved until he was 107, and who past a hundred bought thirty years' worth of timber.
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Hanatori Otsuka Museum
Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.
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Chikkyo Art Museum
For a painter of the Inland Sea in high-keyed colour, and the museum lets you watch him leave his teacher's manner behind.
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Yakage-juku
The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.
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Katsuyama and its Noren
One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.
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Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.
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Lucky Cat Museum
In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
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Ujobori Carving
Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.
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Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.