Murakami
Murakami Carved Lacquer
Carved wood layered with a dozen coats of lacquer and matted down; use wears the surface until the red shows through.
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NiigataArchitectureMurakami
Townhouses of Murakami
A castle-town street of living merchant houses; each spring the families set out their inherited dolls, turning homes into galleries.
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NiigataMuseumsShibata
Fukiya Koji Memorial Museum
For an illustrator whose lyrical girls filled Taisho magazines, in a white building by Shozo Uchii.
Izumozaki
Ryokan Memorial Museum
The calligraphy of a begging monk whose deliberately artless line reshaped modern Japanese writing.
NiigataArt & CraftsKashiwazaki
Kimura Tea Ceremony Museum
Visitors drink from the collection's own bowls - a museum that hands over its objects rather than glazing them in.
Joetsu
Kobayashi Kokei Memorial Museum of Art
For a Nihonga painter who reduced everything to line; his house and studio by Isoya Yoshida stand restored beside it.
NiigataArchitectureJoetsu
Gangi Arcades of Takada
Householders gave up their own frontage to roof a continuous walkway - 16 kilometres of it, the longest in Japan.
NiigataMuseumsSado
Sado Gold Mine
A mountain split in two by hand; the mine that backed Edo's gold currency, now a World Heritage industrial landscape.
NiigataArt & CraftsSado
Mumyoi Ware
Made from iron-rich earth taken from the gold mine, fired so hard the pots ring like metal.
NiigataArchitectureSado
Noh Stages of Sado
Over thirty Noh stages survive on this island - a third of all those left in Japan, one to a village.
NiigataMuseumsSado
Sado Museum
An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.
Sado
Aikawa Craft Museum
Keeps Sado's pottery and its rag weaving - both born from using up what the island had.
NiigataArt & CraftsYahiko
Yahiko Shrine Treasure Hall
Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Echigo, including a two-metre blade forged not to fight but to be given.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Shirone Giant Kite Battle
Kites the size of 24 tatami mats, painted with warriors each year, flown across a river to tangle and tear.
Niigata
Niigata Lacquerware
Specialising in trick finishes - lacquer made to look exactly like bamboo, or stone, over a wooden body.
NiigataArt & CraftsNiigata
Nuttari Terrace
A dying market terrace taken over shop by shop by makers - regeneration without a public plan.
Niigata
Water and Land Niigata Art Festival
A festival themed on land reclaimed from marsh, asking through art how water and soil made this place.
NiigataContemporary ArtNagaoka
Nagaoka Fireworks
Begun as recovery from wartime bombing; its largest shells open 650 metres across over the river.
NiigataMuseumsNagaoka
Flame-Shaped Pottery
Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.
NiigataMuseumsItoigawa
Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
Niigata
Zen Temples and Ink Painting
Zen arrived early by sea trade; medieval ink paintings and calligraphy survive in temples across the province.
Niigata
Kakudahama and Old Farmhouses
A village on the dunes, where the direction of every house and windbreak still follows the old rule.
NiigataArchitectureShibata
Shibata Castle
Its turret roof is T-shaped and carries three shachi finials - the only such example in Japan.
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