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秋田県 · Art & museums

Kanmanji

にかほ市由利

Once a lagoon rivalling Matsushima; an earthquake raised it, leaving islets stranded in rice fields.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Honjo Local Museum

由利本荘市由利

Records of the small Honjo domain, including wedding robes and household furnishings.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Naraoka Ware

大仙市県南

Straw-ash glaze running blue over the body; the same clay and glaze for over 150 years.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Omagari Fireworks

大仙市県南

The only contest where pyrotechnicians compete on their own designs, including composed 'creative' shells.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Hanawa Bayashi

鹿角市県北

Ten floats of lacquer and gilt metal, called moving works of craft, play through the night.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Osarizawa Mine

鹿角市県北

A copper mine worked for 1,300 years; its tunnels trace the changing technology of extraction.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Inukko Festival

湯沢市県南

Dogs modelled in rice flour and set in snow shrines, a form kept for four centuries.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Castle Ruins

秋田市中央

An ancient frontier fort where lacquer-soaked paper survived, preserving readable documents.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Hachirogata Reclaimed Land

大潟村中央

A village made by draining a lake: ruler-straight roads and fields running to the horizon.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Ogata Reclamation Museum

大潟村中央

The record of Japan's largest land reclamation, told through the settlers' own materials.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Prints of Katsuhira Tokushi

秋田市中央

A self-taught printmaker who drew, carved and printed alone, admired by Soetsu Yanagi.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Ranga

秋田市中央

A school born when a samurai learned Western technique from Hiraga Gennai - and gone within a decade.

秋田県 · Art & museums

Akita Furusato Mura

横手市県南

Museum, craft workshops and produce halls on one site - the province's handwork in one visit.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Museum of Art

山形市村山

Holds a local company's collection of Impressionist and Ecole de Paris paintings, exceptional for a regional museum.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Prefectural Museum

山形市村山

Home to the National Treasure Jomon Goddess: 45 cm of clay with no face, all form.

山形県 · Art & museums

Bunshokan

山形市村山

A brick-and-stone prefectural office restored over a decade, down to its plaster ceilings.

山形県 · Art & museums

Former Saiseikan Hospital

山形市村山

A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.

山形県 · Art & museums

Mogami Yoshiaki Museum

山形市村山

The helmet and records of Mogami Yoshiaki, showing the flamboyance of Momoyama armour.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamadera Risshakuji

山形市村山

Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

山形市村山

Manuscripts from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, shown as calligraphy.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamadera Goto Museum

山形市村山

A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Biennale

山形市村山

A biennial run by the local art university, taking over empty shops and temples.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

山形市村山

Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Ironware

山形市村山

Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.