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山形県 · Art & museums

Hirashimizu Ware

山形市村山

Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tendo City Art Museum

天童市村山

Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tendo Shogi Pieces

天童市村山

Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.

山形県 · Art & museums

Dewazakura Art Museum

天童市村山

Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.

山形県 · Art & museums

Kaisendo

上山市村山

One of Japan's finest holdings of Chinese carved lacquer, gathered by a single industrialist.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yonezawa Uesugi Museum

米沢市置賜

Kano Eitoku's screen of Kyoto, said to be Nobunaga's gift to Uesugi Kenshin, holding 2,500 painted figures.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yonezawa Textiles

米沢市置賜

Begun as a domain-rescue industry by Uesugi Yozan; silk dyed with safflower and gromwell, still yarn-dyed.

山形県 · Art & museums

Narushima Ware

米沢市置賜

A former Uesugi domain kiln, revived after extinction; known for deep iron-black glazes.

山形県 · Art & museums

Chido Museum

鶴岡市庄内

Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.

山形県 · Art & museums

Heishindo

鶴岡市庄内

A merchant house whose shingle roof is held down by forty thousand stones.

山形県 · Art & museums

Fujisawa Shuhei Memorial Museum

鶴岡市庄内

Manuscripts of the novelist whose samurai stories were all set in this plain.

山形県 · Art & museums

Haguro Five-Storey Pagoda

鶴岡市庄内

An unpainted five-storey pagoda standing among 400-year-old cedars; the oldest in Tohoku.

山形県 · Art & museums

Dewa Sanzan Shrine

鶴岡市庄内

A thatched roof over two metres thick, sheltering the gods of all three sacred mountains at once.

山形県 · Art & museums

Churenji and the Living Buddha

鶴岡市庄内

The mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.

山形県 · Art & museums

Ken Domon Museum of Photography

酒田市庄内

Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.

山形県 · Art & museums

Homma Museum of Art

酒田市庄内

The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.

山形県 · Art & museums

Homma Family Residence

酒田市庄内

Samurai house at the front, merchant house behind - wealth negotiating the class system in built form.

山形県 · Art & museums

Sankyo Rice Warehouses

酒田市庄内

Rice warehouses with double roofs and a screen of zelkovas planted to block the afternoon sun.

山形県 · Art & museums

Somaro

酒田市庄内

A port-town teahouse still staging maiko dance, with Yumeji Takehisa's works upstairs.

山形県 · Art & museums

Matsuyama Culture Museum

酒田市庄内

Noh masks and robes of the small Matsuyama domain, showing how minor lords sustained the art.

山形県 · Art & museums

Jionji

寒河江市村山

Eighteen Heian and Kamakura Buddhist sculptures survive here, a concentration rare outside the capital.

山形県 · Art & museums

Safflower Museum

河北町村山

In a safflower merchant's house, tracing how petals became rouge and travelled to Kyoto.

山形県 · Art & museums

Ginzan Onsen

尾花沢市村山

Wooden inns of the 1920s facing each other across a stream, their plaster walls modelled in relief.

山形県 · Art & museums

Shinjo Festival Floats

新庄市最上

Twenty floats rebuilt from scratch each year, each staging a scene from kabuki in three dimensions.