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秋田県 · Art & museums

Kakunodate Samurai District

仙北市県南

Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Aoyagi Family Residence

仙北市県南

The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Ishiguro Family Residence

仙北市県南

Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Kabazaiku Craft Museum

仙北市県南

Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Statue of Tatsuko

仙北市県南

A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Shiraiwa Ware

仙北市県南

A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Itaya Basketry

仙北市県南

Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons

仙北市県南

Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Masuda Storehouses

横手市県南

Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Yokote Kamakura

横手市県南

A hundred snow huts lit from within, each enshrining the water deity.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Nakayama Doll

横手市県南

A kiln of clay dolls and bells, best known for its annual zodiac bell.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Yokote Masuda Manga Museum

横手市県南

Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Kawatsura Lacquerware

湯沢市県南

Finished by brush without polishing, this lacquer was always made for daily bowls, not display.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Inaniwa Streets

湯沢市県南

The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Namahage Museum

男鹿市中央

A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Oga Shinzan Folk Museum

男鹿市中央

In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Oyu Stone Circles

鹿角市県北

Two stone circles fifty metres across, each with a radiating 'sundial' setting at its heart.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Isedotai Site

北秋田市県北

Four stone circles on one plateau, a configuration found nowhere else in Japan.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Ani Matagi Museum

北秋田市県北

The gear of the Matagi hunters - knives and hides shaped by the demands of the mountains.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Odate Bentwood Ware

大館市県北

Akita cedar bent with boiling water and stitched with cherry bark; once the side work of poor samurai.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Cedar Cooperage

大館市県北

Straight-grained Akita cedar bound with bamboo hoops alone, up to brewing-vat size.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Odate Central Library

大館市県北

The city's central collection on local bentwood craft and the Akita dog.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Former Ryotei Kaneyu

能代市県北

A restaurant built to display Noshiro's cedar: a 110-mat hall ceilinged in single wide boards.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Shirase Antarctic Expedition Museum

にかほ市由利

Kisho Kurokawa gave this museum of Japan's first Antarctic expedition a roof shaped like ice.