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群馬県 · Art & museums

Nukisaki Shrine

富岡市西毛

Worshippers descend to reach the sanctuary - a rare inversion - past halls lacquered and painted for Iemitsu.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Myogi Shrine

富岡市西毛

Backed by the jagged Myogi peaks, its black-lacquered halls carry a density of gilt carving close to Nikko's.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rakusanen

甘楽町西毛

Gunma's only surviving daimyo garden, its composition built openly around the borrowed mountains behind.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Usui Third Bridge

安中市西毛

Two million bricks in four arches, 31 metres high - Japan's largest brick bridge.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Arafune Cold Storage and Tajima Yahei House

下仁田町西毛

Silkworm eggs stored in natural rock cold air, and the ventilated farmhouse that standardised sericulture.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Takayama-sha Sericulture School

藤岡市西毛

The school that taught the ventilation-and-heat method of silkworm rearing to all Japan.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Tomihiro Art Museum

みどり市東毛

For an artist who paints with the brush in his mouth; its plan of interlocking circles won an open competition of 1,200 entries.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Iwajuku Site

みどり市東毛

Where a self-taught pedlar found the stone tools that proved Japan had a Palaeolithic age.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Isesaki Kasuri

伊勢崎市東毛

Threads tied and dyed before weaving; as meisen it clothed a generation of Japanese women.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Numata History Museum

沼田市北毛

On the Sanada castle town, built atop one of Japan's most pronounced river terraces.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rokkakudo of Mizusawa Kannon

渋川市北毛

A two-storey hexagonal hall whose inner tier of six Jizo figures actually rotates.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Ikaho Stone Steps

渋川市北毛

A hot-spring town planned around a stairway, with the water distributed in conduits beneath the steps.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Yubatake of Kusatsu

草津町北毛

Wooden channels built to cool water too hot to bathe in became the centrepiece of the town.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Morinji and the Bunbuku Kettle

館林市東毛

The temple of the tanuki-turned-kettle folktale, its approach lined with badger statues.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Former Jomo Muslin Office

館林市東毛

A wool company's pseudo-Western office of 1910, a relic of Gunma's textile industry.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Tsutsujigaoka Park

館林市東毛

Azaleas gathered and planted by a feudal lord four centuries ago, grown into a landscape.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Obata Historic Street

甘楽町西毛

A castle town where an irrigation channel runs in front of every house, water and street plan designed as one.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Rock Forms of Shimonita

下仁田町西毛

Volcanic rock eroded into pinnacles, painted since the Edo period as a real-world landscape scroll.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Usui Pass Railway Structures

安中市西毛

The abandoned rack railway over the pass, its tunnels and bridges all in matching brick.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Maebashi Museum of Literature

前橋市中毛

On Sakutaro Hagiwara, who established free verse in colloquial Japanese; manuscripts shown with their book design.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Mt Akagi and Modern Painters

前橋市中毛

Its long gentle slopes appear again and again behind the paintings of Gunma's modern artists.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Saw-Tooth Roof Factories

桐生市東毛

Roofs shaped for even north light in weaving sheds, now reused as cafes and studios.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Roadside Deities of Minakami

みなかみ町北毛

Paired male-and-female stone deities stand at roadsides; the province is dense with them.

群馬県 · Art & museums

Stone Buddhas of Shibukawa

渋川市北毛

Buddhas cut into the rock at the foot of Mt Haruna, tracing a line of provincial stonemasons.