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Akita Silver Filigree
Silver wire finer than hair, coiled into spirals - a mine technology turned into jewellery.
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Yabase Doll
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.
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Akita Arts Center
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
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BIYONG POINT
A city gallery run by Akita University of Art, alternating student and invited shows.
Semboku
Aoyagi Family Residence
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
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Ishiguro Family Residence
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
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Kabazaiku Craft Museum
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
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Statue of Tatsuko
A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
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Shiraiwa Ware
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
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Itaya Basketry
Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households that became a traditional craft of Akita Prefecture.
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Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons
Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.
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Masuda Storehouses
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
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Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
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Kawatsura Lacquerware
Finished by brush without polishing, this lacquer was always made for daily bowls, not display.
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Inaniwa Streets
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
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Namahage Museum
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
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Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
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Ani Matagi Museum
The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.
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Odate Bentwood Ware
Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.
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Akita Cedar Cooperage
Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.
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Odate Central Library
The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.
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Former Ryotei Kaneyu
A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.