Suruga Bamboo Basketry
Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.
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Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.
Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.
A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.
Japan's first public instrument museum, in a town of instrument makers, ranking no culture above another.
A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.
One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.
Kiln sites scattered along a river whose clay fed them, and whose water fed the dye houses too.
Craftsmen gathered to build the shrine and stayed; the woodworking line runs from altars to furniture to model kits.
It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.