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Atsuta Jingu Treasure Hall
The treasury of the shrine of the sacred sword, holding over 6,000 dedicated blades shown in rotation.
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Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
Three centuries of French painting hung in order, with a room where visitors may sit on Galle and Majorelle furniture.
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Furukawa Art Museum
Its annex is a fine sukiya house, where tea is served looking into the garden.
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Kuwayama Art Museum
Tea utensils rearranged each season according to the logic of a tea gathering, not of art history.
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Showa Art Museum
Edo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.
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Arimatsu Shibori Tie-Dye
Over a hundred distinct resist techniques - tied, stitched, clamped - grown as souvenirs for travellers on the Tokaido.
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Arimatsu Historic District
A highway street of shibori wholesalers, their thick fireproof plaster fronts still standing.
Nagoya
Nagoya Yuzen and Black Crest Dyeing
A restrained, near-monochrome yuzen; the related craft dyes a kimono black while leaving the family crest white.
AichiArt & CraftsAma
Owari Cloisonne
Silver wires outline the design on copper before the enamel is laid in; Meiji exports made it famous worldwide.
AichiArt & CraftsSeto
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
Among Japan's largest public ceramics museums, running from the ancient Sanage kilns to the present, with kiln sites on the grounds.
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Setogura Museum
A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.
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Maneki-neko Museum
Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.
AichiArt & CraftsTokoname
Tokoname Ware
The oldest and largest of the six ancient kilns; its iron-rich clay fires vermilion, and its teapots are said to soften the tea.
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INAX Live Museum
Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.
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Joan Tea House
Built by Nobunaga's brother and one of only three tea houses designated National Treasure, lit through a screen of split bamboo.
AichiArt & CraftsInuyama
Inuyama Festival Floats
Three-tiered floats with clockwork puppets performing on top, each hung with 365 lanterns after dark.
AichiArt & CraftsToyota
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Held to be Yoshio Taniguchi's finest work: white volumes over water and lawn, the route framing view after view.
AichiArt & CraftsIchinomiya
Migishi Setsuko Memorial Museum
For a painter who kept working in an era that gave women little room, on the site of the house where she was born.
Ichinomiya
Bishu Wool Textiles
Most of Japan's woollen cloth is woven here; the district supplies luxury suiting worldwide alongside Italy.
AichiArt & CraftsHekinan
Fujii Tatsukichi Museum of Modern Art
For an artist who moved freely between craft and painting; small, but nationally respected for its exhibitions.
AichiArt & CraftsTakahama
Takahama Kawara Museum
Japan's only museum of roof tiles, re-presenting an industrial product as form.