YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Tendo City Art Museum
Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.
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YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Tendo Shogi Pieces
Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.
YamagataArt & CraftsTendo
Dewazakura Art Museum
Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.
YamagataArt & Crafts
YamagataMuseumsYonezawa
Yonezawa Uesugi Museum
Kano Eitoku's screen of Kyoto, said to be Nobunaga's gift to Uesugi Kenshin, holding 2,500 painted figures.
Yonezawa
Yonezawa Textiles
Begun as a domain-rescue industry by Uesugi Yozan; silk dyed with safflower and gromwell, still yarn-dyed.
YamagataArt & CraftsYonezawa
Narushima Ware
A former Uesugi domain kiln, revived after extinction; known for deep iron-black glazes.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Chido Museum
Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.
YamagataMuseumsTsuruoka
Fujisawa Shuhei Memorial Museum
Manuscripts of the novelist whose samurai stories were all set in this plain.
YamagataArt & CraftsTsuruoka
Churenji and the Living Buddha
The mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.
YamagataArt & CraftsSakata
Homma Museum of Art
The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.
Sakata
Homma Family Residence
Samurai house at the front, merchant house behind - wealth negotiating the class system in built form.
YamagataArchitectureSakata
Sankyo Rice Warehouses
Rice warehouses with double roofs and a screen of zelkovas planted to block the afternoon sun.
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.
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