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Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.
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OitaArt & CraftsBeppu
Beppu Bamboo Craft
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
OitaArt & CraftsOitaContemporary ArtHita
Water Hammers of Onta
Water-driven hammers crushing clay along the valley; their sound is listed among Japan's hundred soundscapes worth keeping.
OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Himedaruma of Taketa
A papier-mache daruma in female form, drawn from a samurai wife's story and still made by one family.
OitaArt & CraftsHita
Hita Cedar and Woodwork
Cedar planted under direct shogunal management; at one point this town made more wooden clogs than anywhere in Japan.
Beppu
Bamboo Artists of Oita
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
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Takeyoi Festival, Usuki
Twenty thousand bamboo lanterns cut and lit along the streets, so the town's plan appears as lines of light.