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Sen-oku Hakukokan
Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.
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Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art
A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.
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Raku Museum
Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.
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Kitamura Museum
Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.
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Nomura Art Museum
A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.
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Yurinkan Museum
Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.
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Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum
Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.
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Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design
Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.
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Kawai Kanjiro's House
The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.
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Nishijin Textiles
Named for the camp of a 15th-century war where the weavers regrouped; still built on small runs and divided labour.
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Kyo Yuzen Dyeing
Paste is drawn along every outline to keep the colours apart, leaving the fine white line that identifies the technique.
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Kyo Ware and Kiyomizu Ware
Not tied to local clay: materials were brought in from everywhere to meet each commission, which is why the styles multiplied.
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Karakami Woodblock Paper
Mica pressed from woodblocks onto paper by hand, so the pattern appears and vanishes as the light moves.
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Nijo Castle Ninomaru Palace
Subject matter and ceiling height change with each room's rank, and every painting is composed for the shogun's own seat.
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Rokuharamitsuji
Six tiny Amida figures issue from the monk's mouth - the act of chanting itself rendered as sculpture.
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Ryoanji Rock Garden
Fifteen stones on 75 square metres of gravel, placed so that from any viewpoint one is always hidden.
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Daitokuji Sub-temples
Twenty sub-temples bound up with the tea ceremony; many National Treasure tea rooms and dry gardens are still kept closed to the public.
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Tofukuji Hojo Garden
Shigemori Mirei laid gardens on all four sides; the checkerboard of moss and stone brought modern design into the dry garden.
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Nanzenji and the Aqueduct
A brick aqueduct runs through a Zen precinct - built after long argument, its design adjusted to sit with the temple.
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Tenryuji Sogenchi Garden
Laid out by Muso Soseki and barely altered in 700 years, taking the mountains behind it into the garden itself.