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山形県 · Art & museums

Snow Museum

新庄市最上

Research on snow crystals, whose microscope photographs stand as natural design.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tsuruoka Art Forum

鶴岡市庄内

A circular gallery serving as the city's main venue for regional artists.

山形県 · Art & museums

Oyama Sake District

鶴岡市庄内

Once called the Nada of Tohoku; the white-walled breweries still line the street.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tatekawa School Carvings

鶴岡市庄内

Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.

山形県 · Art & museums

Kaminoyama Castle Museum

上山市村山

A reconstructed keep telling how castle town, hot spring and post station grew as one.

山形県 · Art & museums

Nagai Waterways

長井市置賜

A river-trade town threaded with canals that reach behind the merchant houses themselves.

山形県 · Art & museums

Miyama Washi

白鷹町置賜

Hand-made paper of pure kozo bark, once reserved for the Uesugi domain.

山形県 · Art & museums

Takahata Stone Quarries

高畠町置賜

Vertical walls left by tuff quarrying; the cut stone became the town's storehouses.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yonezawa Armour

米沢市置賜

Armour and swords said to be Uesugi Kenshin's own, kept in the shrine treasury.

山形県 · Art & museums

Hanagasa Festival Hats

山形市村山

Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.

山形県 · Art & museums

Zao Snow Monsters

山形市村山

Ice and snow layer onto conifers until they become vast figures - sculpture made by weather.

山形県 · Art & museums

Mogami River Boat Route

戸沢村最上

The route that carried safflower and rice to Kyoto, its banks unrolling like a painted scroll.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Forged Blades

山形市村山

Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.

山形県 · Art & museums

Sagae Orchards

寒河江市村山

Orchards terraced across an alluvial fan, a farmed landscape that changes colour by season.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tsuruoka Silk

鶴岡市庄内

One of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.

山形県 · Art & museums

Matsugaoka Reclamation Site

鶴岡市庄内

Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.

福島県 · Art & museums

Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art

福島市中通り

Pairs the masterwork of Shoji Sekine, dead at twenty, with a collection of Andrew Wyeth watercolours.

福島県 · Art & museums

Morohashi Museum of Modern Art

北塩原村会津

One of the world's largest Dali collections - 340 works - assembled by a single businessman at the foot of Mt Bandai.

福島県 · Art & museums

Fukushima Museum

会津若松市会津

Beside Tsuruga Castle; Aizu's dense Buddhist heritage means Heian sculpture is unusually well represented.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Sazaedo

会津若松市会津

A wooden double helix where those climbing and those descending never meet - a structure with almost no parallel.

福島県 · Art & museums

Tsuruga Castle

会津若松市会津

The only castle keep in Japan roofed in red tiles - glazed to survive the Aizu frost.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Samurai Residence

会津若松市会津

A 38-room chief retainer's mansion reconstructed, showing how rank was expressed in space.

福島県 · Art & museums

Aizu Lacquerware

会津若松市会津

Begun when Gamo Ujisato brought lacquerers from Omi; known for auspicious motifs and sprinkled gold.

福島県 · Art & museums

Akabeko and Aizu Papier-mache

会津若松市会津

A red papier-mache ox with a nodding head, made to ward off plague - the colour itself is the charm.