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Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
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Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
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Bizen Ware
The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.
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Bizen Ware Museum
A museum centered on Bizen ware, ceramics and art, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.
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Fukiya Village
A copper and red-ochre town where every house is painted in the pigment it made, under matching red tiles.
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Fukiya Bengara Museum
The making of red iron-oxide pigment, which went into Kutani porcelain and Wajima lacquer alike.
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Hanatori Otsuka Museum
Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.
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Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.
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Lucky Cat Museum
In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
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Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.