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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
Japan's only museum of carpentry tools, showing joinery and blades - Japanese architecture explained from the hand outward.
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Kosetsu Museum of Art
The collection of the founder of the Asahi Shimbun, on his own estate, with tea houses moved into the garden.
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The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
In the Tamba pottery district, running from medieval kilns to the present, and working with the studios next door.
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Tamba Ware
One of the six ancient kilns, and the only district in Japan where the kick wheel turns anticlockwise.
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Izushi Town and Ware
A castle town of grid streets, and a porcelain so white that its patterns are cut into the body rather than painted on.
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Toyooka Willow Craft
A basket in the 8th-century Shosoin is said to come from here; willow weaving later made this Japan's luggage capital.
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Awaji Roof Tiles
Smoked at the end of firing so carbon turns them silver; the demon tiles on the ridge are the tiler's sculpture.
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Banshu Abacus
Most of Japan's abacuses; the wood, the turning and the rods together decide how the beads feel and sound.
Himeji
Leather of Himeji
Hides tanned with nothing but salt and rapeseed oil - an ancient method that grew up supplying armour.
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Arima Onsen
Among Japan's oldest spas; its woven bamboo baskets are said to have been used by Hideyoshi at tea.
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Sanda Celadon
A kiln that copied Chinese celadon, extinct for a century and now being revived.