AkitaMuseumsYurihonjo
Honjo Local Museum
Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.
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AkitaArt & CraftsDaisen
Naraoka Ware
Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.
AkitaContemporary ArtDaisen
Omagari Fireworks
The only contest where pyrotechnicians compete on their own designs, including composed 'creative' shells.
AkitaArt & CraftsKazuno
Hanawa Bayashi
Ten floats of lacquer and gilt metal, called moving works of craft, play through the night.
AkitaMuseumsKazuno
Osarizawa Mine
A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.
AkitaArt & CraftsYuzawa
Inukko Festival
Dogs modelled in rice flour and set in snow shrines, a form kept for four centuries.
AkitaMuseumsAkita
Akita Castle Ruins
An ancient frontier fort where lacquer-soaked paper survived, preserving readable documents.
AkitaContemporary ArtŌgata
Hachirogata Reclaimed Land
A village made by draining a lake: ruler-straight roads and fields running to the horizon.
AkitaMuseumsŌgata
Ogata Reclamation Museum
The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.
Akita
Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi
A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.
AkitaArt & CraftsAkita
Akita Ranga
A school born when a samurai learned Western technique from Hiraga Gennai - and gone within a decade.
AkitaArt & CraftsYokote
Akita Furusato Mura
Museum, craft workshops and produce halls on one site - the province's handwork in one visit.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamagata Museum of Art
Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Yamagata Prefectural Museum
Home to the National Treasure Jomon Goddess: 45 cm of clay with no face, all form.
YamagataArchitecture
YamagataArchitectureYamagata
Former Saiseikan Hospital
A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Mogami Yoshiaki Museum
The helmet and records of Mogami Yoshiaki, showing the flamboyance of Momoyama armour.
YamagataArchitectureYamagata
Yamadera Risshakuji
Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.
YamagataMuseumsYamagata
Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum
Manuscripts from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, shown as calligraphy.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamadera Goto Museum
A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.
Yamagata
Yamagata Biennale
A biennial run by the local art university, taking over empty shops and temples.
YamagataArt & CraftsYamagata
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.
Yamagata
Yamagata Ironware
Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.
Yamagata
Hirashimizu Ware
Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.
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