Okuaizu Museum
Household tools of the deep Aizu mountains, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
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Household tools of the deep Aizu mountains, designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
The national archive of the nuclear disaster, raising the question of how such records should be shown.
A Meiji pseudo-Western schoolhouse stands in its grounds, beside a major holding of medieval documents.
The Mito Tokugawa collection, including the sword Shokudaikiri Mitsutada, shown still scarred by the 1923 fire.
An award-winning museum in the home town of Takami Senseki, whose portrait by Kazan is a National Treasure.
In a merchant's storehouse, showing every stage from silk floss to finished cloth.
The record of a mining and electrical town, including the 156-metre chimney once the world's tallest.
Swords of the Tsuchiya lords, shown beside the fishing gear of Lake Kasumigaura.
Holds the gear of Tsukumai, a rain-prayer dance performed atop a 14-metre pole.
The base of Taira no Masakado, with material on the warriors of the medieval east.
Seventy years of quarrying left a cathedral-scale void underground - architecture made purely by subtraction.
A general museum juxtaposing the two cultural spheres of the province, Nikko and Ashikaga.
Shoji Hamada built it to show the objects he learned from - other people's work, not his own, takes the lead.
The record of how irrigation canals turned an alluvial fan into farmland.
One of only three national ordination platforms in ancient Japan, and the only one in the east.
In a town of toy factories, collecting mass-produced Showa toys as design objects.
Gunma has among Japan's densest burial mounds; the Watanuki Kannonyama grave goods are a National Treasure.
The 1934 weavers' guild office, faced in scratch tile and now a registered cultural property.
Where a self-taught pedlar found the stone tools that proved Japan had a Palaeolithic age.
On the Sanada castle town, built atop one of Japan's most pronounced river terraces.
A land that once held over 10,000 burial mounds; its haniwa figures are the core of ancient art in eastern Japan.
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
A Kunio Maekawa building in his late tile-clad manner, holding National Treasure swords.
A financier built this for his mother, gathering materials and craftsmen nationwide; all 23 rooms differ in design.