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A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.
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NaganoArt & CraftsMatsumoto
Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Yayoi Kusama was born here; her polka dots run from the permanent gallery out to the sculptures and even the vending machines.
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Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.
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Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum
Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.
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Former Kaichi School
The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.
Matsumoto
Craft Fair Matsumoto
The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.
NaganoArt & CraftsMatsukawa, Nagano
Chihiro Art Museum Azumino
For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.
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Rokuzan Art Museum
For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.
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Tabuchi Yukio Memorial Museum
A mountain photographer's archive, his images hung beside the minutely painted butterflies he also made.
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Toyoshina Museum of Modern Art
Sculpture set inside a Romanesque-styled building, centred on Hiroatsu Takata, who studied under Rodin's shadow.
Azumino
Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi
A picture-book gallery in a pine wood, showing the brushwork that printing always loses.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
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Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira
Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.
NaganoArt & CraftsOkaya
Ilf Museum of Art
For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.
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Okaya Silk Museum
Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.
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Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum
The only museum holding two National Treasure clay figures - the swelling Venus and the masked goddess.
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NaganoArt & CraftsUeda
KAITA EPITAPH
Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.
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Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda
Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.
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Zensanji Pagoda
A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.
Ueda
Ueda Tsumugi
Said to last three generations; its striped and checked colourways follow local conventions.
NaganoArt & CraftsObuse
Hokusaikan
Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.
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Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery
A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.