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富山県 · Art & museums

Aizen-en, Munakata Shiko's House

南砺市呉西

Munakata lived here for nearly seven years and painted directly onto the walls - even the lavatory - making the house itself the work.

富山県 · Art & museums

Scattered Farmsteads of Tonami

砺波市呉西

Farmhouses stand singly in the fields, each ringed by its own windbreak - a whole plain stippled in green.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shogawa Turned Woodwork

砺波市呉西

Turning begun with timber floated down the river; the blanks it makes go to lacquer towns across Japan.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shimoyama Art Forest Power Plant Museum

入善町呉東

A 1926 hydroelectric plant turned gallery, keeping its penstocks and turbine beds; artists make work for that space.

富山県 · Art & museums

Selene Art Museum

黒部市呉東

Seven contemporary Nihonga painters were commissioned to paint one gorge; the results hang here permanently.

富山県 · Art & museums

Oiwasan Nissekiji

上市町呉東

The main image is carved straight into a boulder; the hall was built around the rock, so image and terrain are one.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Prefectural Tateyama Museum

立山町呉東

Holds Tateyama mandalas - paintings that mapped the mountain as heaven and hell, produced in numbers for pilgrims.

富山県 · Art & museums

Nunobashi Kanjoe

立山町呉東

Women barred from the sacred peak crossed a bridge laid with white cloth instead; the revived procession is itself a form.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Civic Hall

富山市呉東

Built during recovery from wartime bombing, one of a cluster of postwar modernist civic buildings.

富山県 · Art & museums

Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe

小矢部市呉西

A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.

富山県 · Art & museums

Uchikawa Canal

射水市呉西

Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shinminato Float Festival

射水市呉西

Floats dressed in flowers by day are re-hung with lanterns at night - one object with two forms in a day.

富山県 · Art & museums

Himi Fixed-Net Fishing

氷見市呉西

Four centuries of fixed nets laid out across the bay - an invisible structure drawn on water.

富山県 · Art & museums

Uozu Buried Forest Museum

魚津市呉東

Two-thousand-year-old cedar stumps displayed still submerged - natural masses presented as sculpture.

富山県 · Art & museums

Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge

黒部市呉東

Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.

富山県 · Art & museums

Hillside Streets of Yatsuo

富山市呉東

Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.

富山県 · Art & museums

Medicine Peddlers' Woodblocks

富山市呉東

The peddlers who walked all Japan handed out woodblock-printed papers and prints - a channel that carried pictures to ordinary homes.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shomyo Falls

立山町呉東

Japan's highest waterfall, painted into the Tateyama mandalas as the boundary between hell and paradise.

富山県 · Art & museums

Fugan Canal Park

富山市呉東

A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Great Buddha

高岡市呉西

Cast over thirty years by the town's own founders - a great bronze made entirely with local technique.

富山県 · Art & museums

Tulip Fields of Tonami

砺波市呉西

Bulb fields divided by colour for production become, unintentionally, a vast composition in flat colour.

富山県 · Art & museums

Inami Streets

南砺市呉西

Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.

富山県 · Art & museums

Kaiwomaru Park

射水市呉西

A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Butsudan

高岡市呉西

Woodworker, carver, metalsmith, lacquerer and gilder each take a part - the town's whole craft in one object.