ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Shiseido Art House
A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.
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ShizuokaMuseumsHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments
Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Kites of the Hamamatsu Festival
A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShimada
Shitoro Ware
One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.
Fujieda
Kilns and Dyeing of Fujieda
Kiln sites scattered along a river whose clay fed them, and whose water fed the dye houses too.
Shizuoka
Woodwork of Shizuoka
Craftsmen gathered to build the shrine and stayed; the woodworking line runs from altars to furniture to model kits.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Instrument Making of Hamamatsu
It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
Three centuries of French painting hung in order, with a room where visitors may sit on Galle and Majorelle furniture.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Kuwayama Art Museum
Tea utensils rearranged each season according to the logic of a tea gathering, not of art history.
AichiArt & CraftsNagoya
Showa Art Museum
Edo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.
AichiArt & CraftsAma
Owari Cloisonne
Silver wires outline the design on copper before the enamel is laid in; Meiji exports made it famous worldwide.
AichiArt & CraftsSeto
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
Among Japan's largest public ceramics museums, running from the ancient Sanage kilns to the present, with kiln sites on the grounds.
AichiArt & Crafts
AichiMuseumsSeto
Setogura Museum
A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.
AichiMuseumsSeto
Maneki-neko Museum
Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.
AichiArt & CraftsTokoname
Tokoname Ware
The oldest and largest of the six ancient kilns; its iron-rich clay fires vermilion, and its teapots are said to soften the tea.
AichiArchitectureTokoname
Tokoname Pottery Walk
A lane paved and walled with discarded clay pipes and bottles - industrial waste become the fabric of the town.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
INAX Live Museum
Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.
AichiArt & CraftsHekinan
Fujii Tatsukichi Museum of Modern Art
For an artist who moved freely between craft and painting; small, but nationally respected for its exhibitions.
AichiArt & CraftsTakahama
Takahama Kawara Museum
Japan's only museum of roof tiles, re-presenting an industrial product as form.
AichiMuseumsNagoya
Noritake Garden
A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.
AichiContemporary ArtNishio
Matcha of Nishio
Among Japan's leading matcha districts; the black shading covers change the landscape by season, and the stone mills still turn.
AichiMuseumsToyota
Sanage Kiln Sites
Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.
AichiMuseumsTokoname
Tokoname Ceramics Institute
Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.