AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Tsugaru Lacquerware
Nicknamed the fool's lacquer for its 48 coats, ground back to reveal a mottling made by eggshell and rapeseed.
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AomoriArt & CraftsHirosaki
Hirosaki Neputa Festival
Fan-shaped lanterns painted with a warrior on the front and a woman on the back - a festival that compares the painter's two sides.
AomoriArt & CraftsAomori
Aomori Nebuta Festival
Three-dimensional warrior figures of wire and paper, made from nothing each year by professional makers, and used once.
AomoriArt & CraftsGoshogawara
Tachineputa Workshop
Next year's giant lantern is built inside the building all year, from frame to paper, wax and paint.
Hirosaki
Osanai Family Residence
A relocated Tsugaru farmhouse, its balance of boarded floor and earthen floor set by the length of the winter.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Namioka Castle Ruins
A medieval castle site whose Chinese celadon and Seto pottery show how good the goods reaching the far north actually were.
AomoriMuseumsAomori
Komakino Site
A stone circle built by alternating flat and upright stones - four thousand years old, and a deliberate act of composition.
AomoriArchitectureMisawa
Misawa History Museum
In the town from which the first non-stop Pacific flight departed, showing daily objects that carry Nanbu design.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Iwate Museum of Art
Built around three artists from Iwate: the avant-gardist Yorozu Tetsugoro, the urban painter Shunsuke Matsumoto, and the marble sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
Hanamaki
Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum of Art
It stands in the hometown of a painter who helped pioneer Japan's reception of Fauvism and Cubism. From the hill in Tsuchizawa, you can see the same mountains he painted.
Morioka
Iwate Bank Red Brick Building
The only surviving Tohoku work by Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station.
IwateArchitectureMorioka
Iwate Prefectural Public Hall
A 1927 civic hall by the architect of Waseda University's Okuma Auditorium, still in daily use.
IwateMuseumsMorioka
Iwate Prefectural Museum
The prefecture's general museum, strong on old Nambu ironware and pre-Hiraizumi Buddhist sculpture.
IwateMuseumsMorioka
Morioka History and Culture Museum
Samurai armour and swords of the Nambu clan, shown beside a full-size festival float.
Morioka
Morioka Memorial Museum
Devoted to 130 figures from Morioka, with a strong holding of letters and calligraphy.
Morioka
Fukazawa Koko Museum
Watercolours of wild flowers, shown in a former bank on the Nakatsu river.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Nambu Ironware
Four centuries of cast ironware; the hailstone pattern on each kettle is punched by hand.
IwateArt & CraftsMorioka
Morioka Handi-Works Square
Fourteen workshops under one roof, where visitors watch and try the crafts themselves.
IwateMuseumsIchinohe
Goshono Jomon Museum
The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.
IwateArt & CraftsHiraizumi
Chusonji Konjikido
A hall entirely covered in gold leaf, inlaid with mother-of-pearl - the sum of Heian craft in one building.
IwateMuseumsHiraizumi
Hiraizumi Cultural Heritage Center
Finds from the seat of the Northern Fujiwara, whose century of rule made Hiraizumi a rival to Kyoto.
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