Sendai
Akiu Craft Village
Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.
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Ishinomaki
Ishinomaki City Museum
Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.
MiyagiArt & CraftsIshinomaki
Ogatsu Inkstone
Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.
Zao
Miyagi Zao Kokeshi Museum
In the home of Togatta kokeshi, whose big heads and radiating chrysanthemums set them apart.
MiyagiArt & CraftsOsaki
Naruko Kokeshi
The only kokeshi lineage whose heads squeak when turned, still turned and painted in the hot-spring street.
MiyagiArt & CraftsShiroishi
Shiroishi Washi
Paper strong enough to be sewn into clothing, supplied to the Todaiji Omizutori rites.
MiyagiArt & CraftsSendai
Sendai Tanabata Festival
Three thousand paper streamers, each shopping street spending a year making its own.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Neburi Nagashi Museum
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Kanto Festival
Fifty-kilo lantern poles balanced on foreheads and hips, standing in for ears of rice.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Tsuchizaki Float Festival
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
Akita
Yabase Doll
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.
AkitaMuseumsSemboku
Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Shiraiwa Ware
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Itaya Basketry
Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households that became a traditional craft of Akita Prefecture.
AkitaArt & CraftsSemboku
Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons
Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.
AkitaMuseumsOga
Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
Odate
Odate Bentwood Ware
Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.
AkitaArt & CraftsOdate
Akita Cedar Cooperage
Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.
Odate
Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
AkitaArt & CraftsDaisen
Naraoka Ware
Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Furusato Mura
Museum, craft workshops and produce halls on one site - the province's handwork in one visit.
Yamagata
Hirashimizu Ware
Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.
Tendo
Tendo Shogi Pieces
Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.