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Nakamura Memorial Museum
A sake brewer's tea utensils, shown in his relocated house so the bowls are seen from a tea room.
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IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Noh Museum
Masks and robes of the Kaga Hosho school, with masks visitors may wear to feel how narrow the sight becomes.
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Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum
The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.
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Seisonkaku
A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.
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Kazuemachi Chaya District
Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.
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Kanazawa Castle
Roofed in lead tiles that weather white; one turret is built on a rhombus plan to widen its field of view.
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Kaga Yuzen
More realist than Kyoto yuzen - it even paints the holes insects left in leaves - and built on five set colours.
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Kanazawa Gold Leaf
Ninety-nine percent of Japan's gold leaf, beaten to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre - the gilding of Kinkakuji and Nikko alike.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Lacquerware
Begun when the domain imported Edo lacquerers; its raised maki-e uses gold without restraint.
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Kaga Inlay
Gold and silver hammered into cut iron, a technique born on armour and now turned to jewellery.
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Ohi Museum
Three and a half centuries, father to son: bowls formed entirely by hand without a wheel, under an amber glaze.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Kutani Ware Museum
Rooms divided by style, so the bold colour fields of old Kutani can be set against the later fine red painting.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNomi
Kutani Ware
Five overglaze colours covering the surface entirely; the kiln died out once, and each revival changed its style.
Nomi
Nomi Kutani Ware Museum
Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Yamanaka Lacquerware
Held to have Japan's finest woodturning: blanks cut with the grain, then scored on the lathe in hairline rings.
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Hashidate Shipowners' Village
Once called Japan's richest village; the shipowners fenced their houses with old hull planks under red tiles.
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Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan
Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKomatsu
Miyamoto Saburo Museum of Art
One painter's swing from wartime documentary painting to lush postwar nudes, shown in his home town.
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Komatsu City Museum
At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Nanao Art Museum
In the birthplace of Hasegawa Tohaku, painter of the Pine Trees screens, and holding an annual exhibition of his work.
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Ipponsugi Street, Nanao
The merchant street of old Noto, its townhouses still trading, each shopfront designed differently.
IshikawaArt & CraftsWajima
Wajima Lacquerware
Powdered diatomaceous earth in the ground coat and 124 divided steps make it the toughest lacquer in Japan.
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Wajima Museum of Urushi Art
Said to be the world's only museum devoted solely to lacquer, comparing Japanese work with Chinese and Southeast Asian.