Nikko Kanaya Hotel
Japan's oldest surviving resort hotel, its interiors carved in the local Nikko-bori style.
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Japan's oldest surviving resort hotel, its interiors carved in the local Nikko-bori style.
An Edo merchant house, a Meiji villa and a Taisho wing joined into one 106-room building.
Antonin Raymond clad this lakeside villa in cedar bark laid in a checkerboard - geometry from raw material.
Built by the diplomat Ernest Satow, the villa that made Nikko an international summer resort.
Begun by the craftsmen who built Toshogu, using a hooked blade that draws curves by dragging.
Some seventy mossy stone Jizo along a gorge, said never to give the same count twice.
Shoji Hamada built it to show the objects he learned from - other people's work, not his own, takes the lead.
Holds the potters at the centre of the mingei movement, with Hamada's relocated house in the grounds.
Heavy everyday ware that became the face of mingei once Shoji Hamada settled here; nearly 400 kilns remain.
Called Japan's oldest school, keeping National Treasure Chinese classics and a Confucian hall.
The world's largest museum devoted solely to Imari and Nabeshima porcelain, spread over a wooded hill.
Built around the local painter Riichiro Kawashima, and known for the sharpness of its temporary shows.
A river-trade town of white-walled storehouses, nicknamed 'little Edo'.
Three 200-year-old earthen storehouses turned into galleries, exhibiting under their original beams.
The estate of a family of village heads for 550 years, its sukiya-style annex exceptional in materials.
Geometric lattices assembled without a single nail, a trade descended from the Toshogu craftsmen.
Floats carved in bare wood with no paint - the depth of the cut is the whole display.
Shadow pictures shown as they were meant to be seen - cut paper lit from behind in a darkened room.
Nineteenth-century English stained glass reinstalled in purpose-built stone chapels.
The record of how irrigation canals turned an alluvial fan into farmland.
On the archer of the Heike epic, showing medieval warrior dress and bows.
A Nihonga painter who copied the Ajanta cave murals in India, renewing Buddhist painting in modern Japan.
A rice merchant's storehouse and residence converted into galleries, the buildings themselves listed.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.