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宮城県 · Art & museums

Tohoku University Museum

仙台市仙台

The university's specimen collections, near the lecture hall where Lu Xun once studied.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Literature Museum

仙台市仙台

Its first director was the playwright Hisashi Inoue; manuscripts are shown as calligraphy as much as text.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Shichigahama International Village

七ヶ浜町三陸沿岸

A theatre and gallery kept by a town of 20,000, which served as a shelter after the 2011 disaster.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kesennuma Inner Bay Buildings

気仙沼市県北

The lost heart of a port town rebuilt in low timber structures, now studied as recovery design.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Onagawa Renga-michi

女川町三陸沿岸

From Shigeru Ban's station a single promenade runs straight to the sea - a whole town recomposed.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Minamisanriku Sansan Shopping Village

南三陸町三陸沿岸

Kengo Kuma built this market street from local cedar, long low roofs on raised ground.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kakuda Local Museum

角田市県南

Housed in a Meiji landlord's mansion, showing the silk-raising trade that made the district.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Watari Local Museum

亘理町県南

Keeps records of Date Shigezane, one of Masamune's chief retainers, and restores tsunami-damaged material.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Iwanuma City Library

岩沼市県南

A post-disaster library with exposed local timber framing, designed to double as a shelter.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Yakurai Garden

加美町県北

Fifteen hectares of hillside planted as a composition in flowers.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Shiogama Market and Streets

塩竈市三陸沿岸

A town where shrine approach and harbour meet on a slope, its storehouses and market still in use.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Museum of Art

秋田市中央

Built by Tadao Ando to house Foujita's single 20-metre mural of Akita's festivals.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Senshu Museum of Art

秋田市中央

Holds Akita Ranga, a short-lived school that tried Western perspective with Japanese brushes.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Red Brick Museum

秋田市中央

A 1912 bank keeping rooms for the metalsmith Shiro Sekiya, a Living National Treasure, and printmaker Tokushi Katsuhira.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Museum of Modern Art

横手市県南

On a hill in Yokote, tracing how the snow country shaped the region's modern painters.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Prefectural Museum

秋田市中央

Keeps the illustrated travel records of Sugae Masumi, whose sketches founded Japanese folklore studies.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Former Nara Family Residence

秋田市中央

A wealthy farmer's house in the two-gate style unique to Akita; an Important Cultural Property.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Neburi Nagashi Museum

秋田市中央

A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Kanto Festival

秋田市中央

Fifty-kilo lantern poles balanced on foreheads and hips, standing in for ears of rice.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Tsuchizaki Float Festival

秋田市中央

Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Silver Filigree

秋田市中央

Silver wire finer than hair, coiled into spirals - a mine technology turned into jewellery.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Yabase Doll

秋田市中央

Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Arts Center

秋田市中央

The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.

秋田県 · Art & museums

BIYONG POINT

秋田市中央

A city gallery run by Akita University of Art, alternating student and invited shows.