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Collecting around metalwork, as befits a casting town - and working the border between craft and sculpture.
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Takaoka Bronze Casting
Ninety percent of Japan's bronzeware; begun when the Kaga domain summoned seven casters, now casting contemporary design.
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Takaoka Lacquerware
Known for aogai - shell shaved paper-thin and inlaid, shifting through the spectrum as the light moves.
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Kanayamachi District
The casters' quarter, its lattice fronts unbroken and its pavements inlaid with the town's own bronze.
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Yamachosuji District
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, its black plaster fronts hung with cast bronze signs.
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Takaoka Mikurumayama Festival
Floats that gather the town's metalwork, lacquer and textiles into single objects; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Etchu Fukuoka Sedge Hats
Most of Japan's sedge hats are made here, from growing the sedge to the final stitch.
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Inami Woodcarving
Taught by Kyoto carvers who came to rebuild the temple; the street is still lined with workshops using 200 kinds of chisel.
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Gokayama Gassho Villages
Thatched roofs pitched at 60 degrees to shed snow, framed without nails and tied with rope; a World Heritage village.
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Johana Float Festival
Lacquered and carved floats followed by small music pavilions; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Aizen-en, Munakata Shiko's House
Munakata lived here for nearly seven years and painted directly onto the walls - even the lavatory - making the house itself the work.
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Shogawa Turned Woodwork
Turning begun with timber floated down the river; the blanks it makes go to lacquer towns across Japan.
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Shimoyama Art Forest Power Plant Museum
A 1926 hydroelectric plant turned gallery, keeping its penstocks and turbine beds; artists make work for that space.
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Selene Art Museum
Seven contemporary Nihonga painters were commissioned to paint one gorge; the results hang here permanently.
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Oiwasan Nissekiji
The main image is carved straight into a boulder; the hall was built around the rock, so image and terrain are one.
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Toyama Prefectural Tateyama Museum
Holds Tateyama mandalas - paintings that mapped the mountain as heaven and hell, produced in numbers for pilgrims.
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Toyama Civic Hall
Built during recovery from wartime bombing, one of a cluster of postwar modernist civic buildings.
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Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe
A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.
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Uchikawa Canal
Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.
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Shinminato Float Festival
Floats dressed in flowers by day are re-hung with lanterns at night - one object with two forms in a day.
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Himi Fixed-Net Fishing
Four centuries of fixed nets laid out across the bay - an invisible structure drawn on water.
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Uozu Buried Forest Museum
Two-thousand-year-old cedar stumps displayed still submerged - natural masses presented as sculpture.