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Tottori Folk Crafts Museum
Founded by a doctor who did not merely collect folk craft but commissioned new designs from living potters.
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Takumi Craft Shop
Across the street from the museum, selling not the collection but what is being made now - the same doctor's experiment.
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Inshu Washi
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
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Ushinoto Ware
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
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Nakai Kiln
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
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Inkyuzan Ware
A former domain kiln still firing in a climbing kiln, using the same local clay and ash glaze.
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Umbrellas of the Shan-Shan Festival
Paper umbrellas hung with bells and foil, four thousand of them turned at once - a tool become a mass instrument of form.
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Inshu Papermaking Workshops
Winter paper is made in freezing water; the speed and angle of the shaking mould decide how even the sheet will be.
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Red-Tiled Streets
Glazed Sekishu tiles resist snow and salt, and their red is what gives this coast's towns their colour.
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Stonemasons of Tottori
Lanterns and guardian lions supplied to shrines across the region, each quarry's masons cutting differently.