Kanazawa
Kanazawa Lacquerware
Begun when the domain imported Edo lacquerers; its raised maki-e uses gold without restraint.
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Kanazawa
Kaga Inlay
Gold and silver hammered into cut iron, a technique born on armour and now turned to jewellery.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Ohi Museum
Three and a half centuries, father to son: bowls formed entirely by hand without a wheel, under an amber glaze.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Kutani Ware Museum
Rooms divided by style, so the bold colour fields of old Kutani can be set against the later fine red painting.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNomi
Kutani Ware
Five overglaze colours covering the surface entirely; the kiln died out once, and each revival changed its style.
Nomi
Nomi Kutani Ware Museum
Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKaga
Yamanaka Lacquerware
Held to have Japan's finest woodturning: blanks cut with the grain, then scored on the lathe in hairline rings.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Hashidate Shipowners' Village
Once called Japan's richest village; the shipowners fenced their houses with old hull planks under red tiles.
Kaga
Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan
Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKomatsu
Miyamoto Saburo Museum of Art
One painter's swing from wartime documentary painting to lush postwar nudes, shown in his home town.
IshikawaMuseumsKomatsu
Komatsu City Museum
At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Nanao Art Museum
In the birthplace of Hasegawa Tohaku, painter of the Pine Trees screens, and holding an annual exhibition of his work.
IshikawaArchitectureNanao
Ipponsugi Street, Nanao
The merchant street of old Noto, its townhouses still trading, each shopfront designed differently.
IshikawaArt & CraftsWajima
Wajima Lacquerware
Powdered diatomaceous earth in the ground coat and 124 divided steps make it the toughest lacquer in Japan.
IshikawaArt & CraftsWajima
Wajima Museum of Urushi Art
Said to be the world's only museum devoted solely to lacquer, comparing Japanese work with Chinese and Southeast Asian.
IshikawaContemporary ArtWajima
Shiroyone Senmaida
A thousand and four paddies stacked down to the sea, each too small for a machine and still worked by hand.
IshikawaArchitectureWajima
Sojiji Soin
Once the head temple of Soto Zen; rebuilt after fire and earthquake, its cloisters still bind the halls together.
IshikawaArt & Crafts
IshikawaContemporary ArtSuzu
Oku-Noto Triennale
Held at the tip of a peninsula, using depopulated hamlets as its venue and their residents as its guides.
Suzu
Agehama Salt Making
Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.
IshikawaArchitectureHakui
Keta Taisha
Behind the halls lies a primeval wood no one may enter - preserved precisely by being left alone.
Hakusan
Shiramine District
Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.
IshikawaArt & CraftsHakusan
Shirayama Hime Shrine Treasury
Head shrine of 3,000 Hakusan shrines, keeping Heian-period guardian lions among its offerings.
IshikawaMuseumsKahoku
Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy
Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple