Nakano
Nakano Clay Dolls
Two families keep two separate moulds and palettes in the same town - an unusual survival of parallel lineages.
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Nagano
Togakushi Bamboo Craft
Baskets woven from bamboo bent by snow, made at the gate of a mountain of ascetics for the pilgrims who came.
Suwa
Glass and Precision Industry of Suwa
A precision-machinery town whose skills flowed sideways into glass - industry and craft at close range.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
One of the world's major holdings of Odilon Redon, including his great sequences of black lithographs.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Lanterns
Mino paper stretched so thin the bamboo ribs show through when the lantern is lit.
GifuArt & CraftsGifu
Gifu Paper Umbrellas
Most of Japan's paper umbrellas came from here; looked up into, the threads binding the ribs form a geometric pattern.
GifuArt & CraftsTajimi
Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.
GifuMuseumsTajimi
Tajimi Mosaic Tile Museum
Terunobu Fujimori shaped the building like the clay pit itself, its walls studded with tiles so the architecture is the specimen.
GifuArt & Crafts
GifuMuseumsToki
Toki Mino Ceramics History Museum
Sherds from the kilns that fired Shino and Oribe - technique read from the failures rather than the finished pots.
GifuMuseumsMizunami
Mizunami Ceramics Museum
From Momoyama tea ware to modern export porcelain, including the designs made purely for foreign markets.
GifuMuseumsKani
Arakawa Toyozo Museum
The man who found a Shino sherd in these hills and proved Momoyama tea ware was made in Mino, not Kyoto.
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Hon-Minoshi Paper
Paper made here survives in the 8th-century Shosoin; fibres crossed both ways make it thin, even and hard to tear.
GifuArt & CraftsMino
Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition
Paper light sculptures set out along the old street, with the town's own lamps switched off for the night.
GifuArt & CraftsTakayama
Ichii Wood Carving
Carved from yew and never painted, so the wood's red and white heartwood does the work and deepens with age.
GifuArt & CraftsHida
Hida City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Food Samples of Gujo
Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.
GifuArchitectureTajimi
Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
GifuArt & CraftsKani
Furuta Oribe
A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.
GifuMuseumsMino
Mino Washi Museum
Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.
Mino
Paper Crafts of Mino
A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.
GifuArt & CraftsGujo
Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Bamboo Basketry
Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsAtami
MOA Museum of Art
Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.