The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.
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Successor to Japan's first public museum of modern art, set where the galleries open straight onto the sea.
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
An 11-metre bronze Buddha that lost its hall to a tsunami; sitting in the open, its casting seams are visible inside and out.
Wood carved first, then lacquered - a Japanese answer to Chinese carved lacquer, arrived at by splitting the trades.
In Taro Okamoto's home city, where his 30-metre Tower of Mother breaks out above the trees.
Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures over seven hectares, each set against the mountain skyline.
One of Japan's oldest resort hotels: temple roofs over Western interiors, each room named and carved for a flower.
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
Sea caves turned into places of worship, filled with stone images and drawn again and again in ukiyo-e.
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.