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Morioka History and Culture Museum
Samurai armour and swords of the Nambu clan, shown beside a full-size festival float.
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IwateMuseumsMorioka
Morioka Memorial Museum
Devoted to 130 figures from Morioka, with a strong holding of letters and calligraphy.
Morioka
Fukazawa Koko Museum
Watercolours of wild flowers, shown in a former bank on the Nakatsu river.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Nambu Ironware
Four centuries of cast ironware; the hailstone pattern on each kettle is punched by hand.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Handi-Works Square
Fourteen workshops under one roof, where visitors watch and try the crafts themselves.
IwateMuseumsIchinohe
Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.
IwateArt & CraftsHiraizumi
Chusonji Konjikido
A hall entirely covered in gold leaf, inlaid with mother-of-pearl - the sum of Heian craft in one building.
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Hiraizumi Cultural Heritage Center
Finds from the seat of the Northern Fujiwara, whose century of rule made Hiraizumi a rival to Kyoto.
IwateMuseumsIchinoseki
Ichinoseki City Museum
Centred on Mokusa swords, an early source of the curved Japanese blade.
IwateArchitectureOshu
Historic Park Esashi Fujiwara
Full-scale reconstructions of Heian palaces, used repeatedly as a period-drama film set.
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Takano Choei Memorial Museum
Manuscripts of a Dutch-studies scholar, showing how Western knowledge was copied under seclusion.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Kitakami City Museum
A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.
IwateMuseumsKitakami
Museum of Oni
A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.
IwateMuseumsTono
Tono Municipal Museum
Japan's first museum devoted to folklore, built around the tales Kunio Yanagita recorded here.
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IwateMuseumsTono
Tono Story Museum
A museum of storytelling voices, built into an old inn and Yanagita's relocated house.
IwateMuseumsHanamaki
Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum
Manuscripts, minerals and the cello of the poet Kenji Miyazawa, on the slope of Mt Koshio.
Hanamaki
Kenji Ihatov Center
A research centre on Kenji Miyazawa that also stages art and music inspired by his work.
Hanamaki
Hanamaki City Museum
Archaeology and castle-town history of Hanamaki, with a large local excavation holding.
Iwate
Ishigami-no-oka Museum of Art
Stone sculptures scattered over a hillside, framed against the Kitakami mountains.
Ninohe
Tekiseisha
In the town that taps over 70 percent of Japan's lacquer, including the sap used to repair national treasures.