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YamagataArchitecture
YamagataMuseumsSakata
Matsuyama Culture Museum
Noh masks and robes of the small Matsuyama domain, showing how minor lords sustained the art.
YamagataArt & Crafts
YamagataMuseumsKahoku
Safflower Museum
In a safflower merchant's house, tracing how petals became rouge and travelled to Kyoto.
YamagataArchitectureObanazawa
Ginzan Onsen
Wooden inns of the 1920s facing each other across a stream, their plaster walls modelled in relief.
YamagataArt & CraftsShinjo
Shinjo Festival Floats
Twenty floats rebuilt from scratch each year, each staging a scene from kabuki in three dimensions.
YamagataMuseumsShinjo
Snow Museum
Research on snow crystals, whose microscope photographs stand as natural design.
YamagataContemporary ArtTsuruoka
Tsuruoka Art Forum
A circular gallery serving as the city's main venue for regional artists.
Tsuruoka
Oyama Sake District
Once called the Nada of Tohoku; the white-walled breweries still line the street.
Tsuruoka
Tatekawa School Carvings
Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.
YamagataMuseumsKaminoyama
Kaminoyama Castle Museum
A reconstructed keep telling how castle town, hot spring and post station grew as one.
Nagai
Nagai Waterways
A river-trade town threaded with canals that reach behind the merchant houses themselves.
Shirataka
Miyama Washi
Hand-made paper of pure kozo bark, once reserved for the Uesugi domain.
Takahata
Takahata Stone Quarries
Vertical walls left by tuff quarrying; the cut stone became the town's storehouses.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Yonezawa Armour
Armour and swords said to be Uesugi Kenshin's own, kept in the shrine treasury.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Hanagasa Festival Hats
Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.
YamagataContemporary ArtTozawa
Mogami River Boat Route
The route that carried safflower and rice to Kyoto, its banks unrolling like a painted scroll.
Yamagata
Yamagata Forged Blades
Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.
Sagae
Sagae Orchards
Orchards terraced across an alluvial fan, a farmed landscape that changes colour by season.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Tsuruoka Silk
One of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.
YamagataArchitectureTsuruoka
Matsugaoka Reclamation Site
Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.
Yamagata
Yamagata Research Institute of Technology
A public testing and research institution of the prefecture. It supports the molded plywood of Tendo Mokko and Yamagata cast iron.
Yamagata
Yamagata Prefectural Advanced Technology Research and Development Center
A base for advanced research and industry-academia collaboration. It mediates joint research between universities and companies.
Yamagata
Yamagata Integrated Agricultural Research Center
An agricultural research institution of the prefecture. It bred paddy rice varieties such as Tsuyahime.