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富山県 · Art & museums

Lion Dances of Himi

氷見市呉西

Over a hundred lion dances survive in one city, each hamlet's carved head differing enough to trace its lineage.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shipping Agents' Houses of Namerikawa

滑川市呉東

Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.

富山県 · Art & museums

Paper and Hemp of Fukumitsu

南砺市呉西

Paper from Gokayama kozo and hemp cloth woven in the hills - work for the months the snow shut everyone in.

富山県 · Art & museums

Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

立山町呉東

A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.

富山県 · Art & museums

Modern Painters of Toyama

富山市呉東

Painters born in this province, among them the bird-and-flower master Ishizaki Koyo, are held across its museums.

石川県 · Art & museums

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

金沢市金沢

A circular glass building with no front or back; large free zones let people cross through as if it were a park.

石川県 · Art & museums

Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art

金沢市金沢

Ninsei's pheasant incense burner is a National Treasure; the crafts the Kaga domain nurtured are all gathered here.

石川県 · Art & museums

National Crafts Museum

金沢市金沢

The national crafts collection, moved from Tokyo into two relocated Meiji army buildings.

石川県 · Art & museums

D.T. Suzuki Museum

金沢市金沢

For the man who explained Zen to the West; almost nothing is displayed - the water court and silent room are the exhibit.

石川県 · Art & museums

Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History

金沢市金沢

Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nakamura Memorial Museum

金沢市金沢

A sake brewer's tea utensils, shown in his relocated house so the bowls are seen from a tea room.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Noh Museum

金沢市金沢

Masks and robes of the Kaga Hosho school, with masks visitors may wear to feel how narrow the sight becomes.

石川県 · Art & museums

Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum

金沢市金沢

The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kenrokuen

金沢市金沢

One of Japan's three great gardens; the ropes rigged each winter to save the pines have become the winter view itself.

石川県 · Art & museums

Seisonkaku

金沢市金沢

A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.

石川県 · Art & museums

Higashi Chaya District

金沢市金沢

Teahouse buildings raise their upper floors for the guest rooms; fine red lattices align the whole street.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kazuemachi Chaya District

金沢市金沢

Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nagamachi Samurai District

金沢市金沢

Earthen walls line the samurai quarter, wrapped in straw mats each winter - protection that becomes a seasonal sight.

石川県 · Art & museums

Oyama Shrine Gate

金沢市金沢

A three-tier gate mixing Japanese, Chinese and Western elements, topped with Dutch stained glass.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Castle

金沢市金沢

Roofed in lead tiles that weather white; one turret is built on a rhombus plan to widen its field of view.

石川県 · Art & museums

Myoryuji

金沢市金沢

Two storeys from outside, four floors and seven levels within - a temple built as a defensive machine.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Yuzen

金沢市金沢

More realist than Kyoto yuzen - it even paints the holes insects left in leaves - and built on five set colours.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Gold Leaf

金沢市金沢

Ninety-nine percent of Japan's gold leaf, beaten to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre - the gilding of Kinkakuji and Nikko alike.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Lacquerware

金沢市金沢

Begun when the domain imported Edo lacquerers; its raised maki-e uses gold without restraint.