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Sekisui Museum
Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.
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Jingu Chokokan Museum
A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.
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Sengukan Museum
The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.
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Kawasaki Merchant District, Ise
The wholesalers' quarter that supplied the pilgrim trade, its storehouses opening straight onto the river.
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Ise Katagami Stencils
Stencils for dyeing kimono, sometimes cut with over a hundred holes per square centimetre - admired abroad as art in themselves.
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Suzuka Traditional Crafts Hall
On stencil cutting and inkstick making, with carvers working in front of visitors.
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Suzuka Inksticks
Soot from burnt rapeseed oil kneaded with glue; the fineness of the particles decides the ink's colour and bleed.
MieArt & CraftsYokkaichi
Banko Ware
Eighty percent of Japan's clay pots; the district developed a heat-proof body, and its unglazed teapots fire purple-brown.
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Banko no Sato Hall
The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.
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MieArt & CraftsKuwana
Kuwana Ironware
Casting since the Edo period, from cooking pots to - today - a large share of Japan's manhole covers.
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Kuwana Senbazuru
Multiple cranes folded from one sheet, still joined; a 1797 book records 49 different configurations.
MieArt & CraftsKomono
Paramita Museum
Permanently shows Masuo Ikeda's late ceramic Heart Sutra series, in a sculpture garden facing the Suzuka range.
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Matsusaka Merchant House
A cotton merchant's home town house: plain to the street, lavish within - the merchant code in built form.
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Motoori Norinaga Memorial Museum
The scholar who spent 35 years deciphering the Kojiki; his manuscripts survive, and the study he hung with bells.
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Matsuura Takeshiro Memorial Museum
The man who walked Ezo six times and proposed the name Hokkaido; he built a one-mat study from old timbers gathered nationwide.
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Matsusaka Cotton
Striped cotton that swept Edo: sober enough to slip past sumptuary law, but luxurious in the quality of its thread.
MieArt & CraftsIga
Iga Braided Cords
Silk threads crossed on a wooden stand; the craft moved from sword cords to kimono sashes and survived.
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Iga Ueno Castle
Its stone wall rises thirty metres straight from the moat, among the highest in Japan.
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Basho Memorial Museum
In Basho's birthplace, showing his poem cards and travel drafts as calligraphy.
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Toba Sea-Folk Museum
The building that made Hiroshi Naito's name: timber-framed storehouses standing as strongly as what they hold.
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Mikimoto Pearl Island
Where cultured pearls first succeeded; its Meiji exhibition pieces come apart and reassemble into different ornaments.