ToyamaArchitectureImizu
Kaiwomaru Park
A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.
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ToyamaArchitectureTakaoka
Takaoka Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, metalsmith, lacquerer and gilder each take a part - the town's whole craft in one object.
ToyamaArt & CraftsHimi
Lion Dances of Himi
Over a hundred lion dances survive in one city, each hamlet's carved head differing enough to trace its lineage.
Namerikawa
Mori Residence, Iwase Shipping Agent
Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.
Nanto
Paper and Hemp of Fukumitsu
Paper from Gokayama kozo and hemp cloth woven in the hills - work for the months the snow shut everyone in.
ToyamaArchitectureTateyama
Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.
Toyama
Modern Painters of Toyama
Painters born in this province, among them the bird-and-flower master Ishizaki Koyo, are held across its museums.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
A circular glass building with no front or back; large free zones let people cross through as if it were a park.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Ninsei's pheasant incense burner is a National Treasure; the crafts the Kaga domain nurtured are all gathered here.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
National Crafts Museum
The national crafts collection, moved from Tokyo into two relocated Meiji army buildings.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
D.T. Suzuki Museum
For the man who explained Zen to the West; almost nothing is displayed - the water court and silent room are the exhibit.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History
Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Nakamura Memorial Museum
A sake brewer's tea utensils, shown in his relocated house so the bowls are seen from a tea room.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Noh Museum
Masks and robes of the Kaga Hosho school, with masks visitors may wear to feel how narrow the sight becomes.
IshikawaMuseumsKanazawa
Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum
The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Seisonkaku
A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Higashi Chaya District
Teahouse buildings raise their upper floors for the guest rooms; fine red lattices align the whole street.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kazuemachi Chaya District
Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Nagamachi Samurai District
Earthen walls line the samurai quarter, wrapped in straw mats each winter - protection that becomes a seasonal sight.
IshikawaArchitectureKanazawa
Kanazawa Castle
Roofed in lead tiles that weather white; one turret is built on a rhombus plan to widen its field of view.
IshikawaArchitecture
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Yuzen
More realist than Kyoto yuzen - it even paints the holes insects left in leaves - and built on five set colours.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kanazawa Gold Leaf
Ninety-nine percent of Japan's gold leaf, beaten to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre - the gilding of Kinkakuji and Nikko alike.
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