TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art
Holds the potters at the centre of the mingei movement, with Hamada's relocated house in the grounds.
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TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Ware
Heavy everyday ware that became the face of mingei once Shoji Hamada settled here; nearly 400 kilns remain.
TochigiArt & CraftsAshikaga
Kurita Museum
The world's largest museum devoted solely to Imari and Nabeshima porcelain, spread over a wooded hill.
TochigiArt & CraftsKanuma
Kanuma Kumiko Woodwork
Geometric lattices assembled without a single nail, a trade descended from the Toshogu craftsmen.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasukarasuyama
Karasuyama Washi
Thick Hodomura paper, used for mounting scrolls and formal certificates.
TochigiMuseumsMibu
Mibu Toy Museum
In a town of toy factories, collecting mass-produced Showa toys as design objects.
TochigiArt & CraftsNasu
Craft Studios of Nasu
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, built up by artists who moved here.
TochigiArt & CraftsMashiko
Mashiko Pottery Fair
Five hundred stalls twice a year, the model on which Japan's other pottery fairs were built.
GunmaArt & CraftsTakasaki
Takasaki Daruma and Shorinzan
Eight in ten of Japan's daruma dolls are made here, their brows drawn as cranes and beards as tortoises.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Omiya Bonsai Art Museum
The world's first public bonsai museum, beside the village founded by Tokyo growers who fled the 1923 earthquake.
SaitamaMuseumsSaitama
Iwatsuki Doll Museum
Japan's first public museum devoted to dolls, in the town that has made their heads for centuries.
SaitamaArt & CraftsOgawa
Ogawa Washi and Hosokawa Paper
Paper made from kozo alone, supplying Edo for centuries; the technique is UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
SaitamaArt & CraftsHigashichichibu
Higashichichibu Washi Village
Where Hosokawa paper is made, showing the whole process from boiling the bark to drying the sheet.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKasukabe
Kasukabe Paulownia Chests
Said to have begun when craftsmen who came to build Nikko Toshogu started production in Kasukabe, a paulownia-growing area. A national traditional craft.
SaitamaArt & CraftsKōnosu
Konosu Hina Doll Festival
A doll-making town of 380 years, stacking 1,800 dolls on a seven-metre tier.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Iwatsuki Dolls
Faces built up in layers of shell white over paulownia paste, a trade traced to the Toshogu craftsmen.
Hanno
Nishikawa Timber of Hanno
Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.
SaitamaArt & CraftsTokigawa
Joinery of Tokigawa
A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.
SaitamaArt & CraftsSaitama
Omiya Bonsai Village
Founded by growers who left Tokyo after the 1923 quake, with street widths and hedges written into its rules.
ChibaArchitectureSakae
Boso no Mura
A full-scale reconstructed Edo town where craftsmen actually work in the buildings.
ChibaMuseumsAbiko
Shirakaba Museum
Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.
ChibaArt & CraftsKatsuura
Katsuura Hina Festival
Thirty thousand dolls fill the town, and a shrine's sixty stone steps become a tiered display.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Holds one of only three Yohen Tenmoku tea bowls in the world, its glaze scattering starlike spots that shift with the light.
TokyoArt & CraftsChiyoda
Idemitsu Museum of Arts
Overlooking the palace moat, with a room of potsherds gathered from kiln sites worldwide - beauty taught through fragments.