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.
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IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
National Crafts Museum
The national crafts collection, moved from Tokyo into two relocated Meiji army buildings.
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 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.
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.
Kaga
Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan
Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.
IshikawaMuseumsKomatsu
Komatsu City Museum
At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.
IshikawaArt & CraftsSuzu
Agehama Salt Making
Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.
IshikawaArchitectureKaga
Yamashiro Kosoyu
A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop
The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNanao
Notojima Glass Art Museum
Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll
A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.
IshikawaArt & CraftsKanazawa
Kaga Mizuhiki
Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.
IshikawaArt & CraftsNoto
Kiriko Festivals of Noto
Giant lacquered and gilded lanterns, up to fifteen metres tall, carried each summer by over 200 hamlets.