Fujikawaguchiko
Itchiku Kubota Art Museum
The home of a dyer who independently revived tsujigahana dyeing, which appeared from the Muromachi to Momoyama periods; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.
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Fujikawaguchiko
Yo Yuki Museum
Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.
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Kawaguchiko Museum of Art
Collecting one mountain only; photographers who spent lifetimes on Fuji can be compared side by side.
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Mt Fuji World Heritage Center
Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.
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Koshu Crystal Carving
Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.
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Yamanashi Jewelry Museum
A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.
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Fujimura Memorial Hall
An 1875 pseudo-Western schoolhouse with balcony and drum tower - local carpenters' reading of Western form.
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Shakado Museum of Jomon Culture
One site yielded 1,116 clay figures, nearly all deliberately broken - breaking them appears to have been the ritual.
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Yamanashi Archaeological Museum
Run together with the keyhole tomb beside it, and strong in the over-ornamented pottery of the middle Jomon.
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Nirasaki Omura Art Museum
Founded by a Nobel laureate with his own funds, and collecting women artists exclusively - rare in Japan.
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Kanzo Yashiki
A house that supplied liquorice to the shogunate, its roof raised in three tiers for silkworm rearing.
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Saruhashi Bridge
No piers: timbers cantilever out from both banks in stages - a method invented because the gorge was too deep to stand in.
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Oshi Pilgrim Lodgings
Lodgings for Fuji pilgrims: long narrow plots running back from the road, with a channel drawn in for purification.
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Nishijima Washi
Paper for calligraphy, made since the 1500s and still varied sheet by sheet to control how ink bleeds.
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Paper and Fireworks of Ichikawa
A paper town that also makes fireworks - the shells are wound from paper, so the two trades grew together.
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Takeda Clan Residence Site
Shingen ruled from a square residence, not a castle - his saying that people are the castle, left in the ground.
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Shingen Levee
Rather than sealing the river, the levee is deliberately gapped to let water escape - engineering doctrine as landscape.
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Vineyards of Katsunuma
Trellised vineyards covering the slopes, where Japanese winemaking began; Meiji brick cellars still stand.
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Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature
In the same park as the art museum, showing manuscripts as much for the hand as for the text.
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Oshino Hakkai
Eight springs fed by Fuji's groundwater, visited in sequence by pilgrims - belief mapped onto terrain.
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The Five Lakes and Fuji's Viewpoints
The exact spots Hokusai and Hiroshige drew can still be stood on, and the compositions checked against the view.
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Yamura and Gunnai Textiles
Thin lustrous silk that sold in Edo for linings and umbrellas, woven in this valley.
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Kiyosato Highland Buildings
A highland community founded by an American missionary, its timber lodge buildings still standing in the woods.