Yugyoji Treasure Hall
The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.
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The treasury of the head temple of Jishu, keeping material on the scrolls of the dancing monk Ippen.
Hiroshi Sugimoto's entire site as one work: a 100-metre gallery and a tunnel aimed exactly at the solstice sunrises.
The villa and tea house of the utilities magnate Matsunaga, its sukiya detailing intact with the garden.
Turned bowls of Hakone timber finished so the grain still shows - lacquer that displays the wood, not itself.
One of Japan's great Impressionist collections, with 80 percent of the building buried to spare the forest.
Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures over seven hectares, each set against the mountain skyline.
Holds Utamaro's Deep Snow at Fukagawa, lost for seventy years, in one of Japan's largest private museums.
An actual Orient Express carriage with Lalique's glass panels, entered rather than viewed through a case.
Four thousand works of contemporary Nihonga, and a window framing Mt Fuji across the lake by design.
Geometric patterns built from blocks of differently coloured woods and shaved into veneer - no dye is ever used.
Opened by a family of marquetry makers, tracing how the patterns grew more complex over generations.
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.
For a painter who returned to the same harbour and mountain for decades, working in oils, calligraphy and clay.
A double shell of glass and steel punched with circles, so the sea is visible from almost anywhere inside.
The painter's house, its studio designed by Isoya Yoshida with light arranged entirely for the work.
Rebuilt from drawings after a fire; Isoya Yoshida's sukiya architecture, seen as the stage of postwar politics.
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
A seaside town where Meiji statesmen built rival villas, each composed around the relation of garden to sea.
Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.
A low white pavilion on the original pier, where art is met in the middle of the harbour rather than in a sealed room.
Where Japan's first Protestant church was raised; the foreign settlement's grid still shapes the streets.
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.
A checkpoint rebuilt in timber from excavation and old drawings, beside the paved and cedar-lined Tokaido.
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.