YamagataArchitectureYamagata
Former Saiseikan Hospital
A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.
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YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Mogami Yoshiaki Museum
The helmet and records of Mogami Yoshiaki, showing the flamboyance of Momoyama armour.
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Yamadera Risshakuji
Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum
Manuscripts from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, shown as calligraphy.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamadera Goto Museum
A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.
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Yamagata Biennale
A biennial run by the local art university, taking over empty shops and temples.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.
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Yamagata Ironware
Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.
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Hirashimizu Ware
Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Tendo City Art Museum
Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.
Tendo
Tendo Shogi Pieces
Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Dewazakura Art Museum
Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.
YamagataArt & Crafts
YamagataMuseumsYonezawa
Yonezawa Uesugi Museum
Kano Eitoku's screen of Kyoto, said to be Nobunaga's gift to Uesugi Kenshin, holding 2,500 painted figures.
Yonezawa
Yonezawa Textiles
Begun as a domain-rescue industry by Uesugi Yozan; silk dyed with safflower and gromwell, still yarn-dyed.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Narushima Ware
A former Uesugi domain kiln, revived after extinction; known for deep iron-black glazes.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Chido Museum
Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Fujisawa Shuhei Memorial Museum
Manuscripts of the novelist whose samurai stories were all set in this plain.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Churenji and the Living Buddha
The mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
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Homma Family Residence
Samurai house at the front, merchant house behind - wealth negotiating the class system in built form.
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Sankyo Rice Warehouses
Rice warehouses with double roofs and a screen of zelkovas planted to block the afternoon sun.