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Northern Culture Museum
The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.
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Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
Systematic on the flame-shaped Jomon pots, and on snow-country life reconstructed at full size.
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Tokamachi City Museum
Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.
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Sado Museum
An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.
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Flame-Shaped Pottery
Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.
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Jade of Itoigawa
Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.
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Zen Temples and Ink Painting
Zen arrived early by sea trade; medieval ink paintings and calligraphy survive in temples across the province.
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Mokujiki Buddhas
Rough-hewn smiling Buddhas by the wandering monk Mokujiki, rediscovered by Soetsu Yanagi.