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Tahara City Museum
The largest holding of Watanabe Kazan, the samurai painter who brought Western shading into Japanese portraiture.
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AichiMuseumsToyohashi
Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History
In the old castle park, holding work by Nakamura Fusetsu, who was both calligrapher and oil painter.
AichiArchitectureHanda
Handa Red Brick Building
Among Japan's oldest surviving brewery buildings, its walls built five layers thick to hold temperature.
AichiArt & CraftsHanda
Kamezaki Festival Floats
Floats hauled down onto the beach itself, their carvings and embroidered hangings standing on the sand.
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Niimi Nankichi Memorial Museum
A children's writer's museum sunk into the ground with a grass roof, so as not to disturb the fields he wrote about.
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Mikawa Buddhist Altars
Built inside like a miniature temple, finished by five separate trades working in sequence.
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Hatcho Miso Breweries
Three tonnes of river stones stacked into a cone on each two-metre vat, a two-year process that fills the warehouse.
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Noritake Garden
A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.
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Toyota Commemorative Museum
In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.
AichiContemporary ArtNagoya
Aichi Triennale
One of Japan's largest international art festivals, running through shopping streets and warehouses alongside a performing arts programme.
AichiMuseumsNishio
Iwase Bunko Library
Japan's first private public library; its exhibitions treat bindings and illustrations as objects, not only texts.
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Matcha of Nishio
Among Japan's leading matcha districts; the black shading covers change the landscape by season, and the stone mills still turn.
AichiArt & CraftsNagakute
Meito Art Museum
Narrowed to modern Nihonga and especially bijinga, with a substantial group of works by Uemura Shoen.
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Hosa Library
The Owari Tokugawa library intact - a rare case where what a daimyo house actually read survives as a whole.
AichiMuseumsToyota
Sanage Kiln Sites
Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.
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Korankei and Asuke
A post town on the salt road, beside a gorge that monks began planting with maples two centuries ago.
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Tokoname Ceramics Institute
Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.
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Nagoya TV Tower
Japan's first integrated broadcast tower, standing on the axis of a 100-metre-wide avenue cut after the war.
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Shippo Art Village
In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.
Okazaki
Stonemasons of Okazaki
Masons summoned to build the castle stayed; the town became Japan's source of stone lanterns and figures.
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Kiyosu Castle
Nobunaga's first seat; the entire town was later moved to Nagoya - a rare case of a city relocated whole.
AichiArchitectureHanda
Handa Canal
A canal that shipped vinegar and sake to Edo, lined with black-boarded brewery warehouses.
AichiArt & CraftsToyohashi
Oni Festival of Toyohashi
A red demon and a tengu do battle and scatter white powder; the masks are repaired and handed down.
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Nagoya Buddhist Altars
Buddhist altars from Nagoya. They are made with the work divided into eight trades, covering the wooden base, carving, lacquering, gold leaf application and maki-e.