The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.
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Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.
An annex behind the great shrine, kept low behind walls and hedges to sit inside the town's grain.
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
On the site of the home of Kiyokata, the last great painter of bijinga, who drew the ordinary streets of Meiji Tokyo.
Wood carved first, then lacquered - a Japanese answer to Chinese carved lacquer, arrived at by splitting the trades.
Among the first Japanese museums to collect photography seriously, and the symmetrical anchor of the Minato Mirai axis.
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
One of Yokohama's three towers, built by public subscription, its stairwell filled with stained glass.
Built as a state bonded warehouse, it survived quake and war and now houses exhibitions and performance.
Japan's leading international contemporary exhibition, using docks and warehouses as its conditions, not just its rooms.
Historic bank buildings opened to artists - the model case for linking urban renewal with contemporary art in Japan.
Seven Western houses on the old foreign settlement hill, including work by Antonin Raymond.
Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.
For the novelist behind Kurama Tengu, its brickwork matched to the Western houses on the same hill.
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
In Taro Okamoto's home city, where his 30-metre Tower of Mother breaks out above the trees.
Twenty-five farmhouses from across Japan, re-sited to suit the terrain - from steep gassho roofs to a boatman's hut.
For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.
Collects around a single theme - the light of this coast - and the artists who worked in it.
A small museum in a pine grove, building the record of a town where writers and painters settled.
Prints narrowed to three local subjects, so the changing way one place was seen can be followed.
The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.