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石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Inlay

金沢市金沢

Gold and silver hammered into cut iron, a technique born on armour and now turned to jewellery.

石川県 · Art & museums

Ohi Museum

金沢市金沢

Three and a half centuries, father to son: bowls formed entirely by hand without a wheel, under an amber glaze.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kutani Ware Museum

加賀市加賀

Rooms divided by style, so the bold colour fields of old Kutani can be set against the later fine red painting.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kutani Ware

能美市加賀

Five overglaze colours covering the surface entirely; the kiln died out once, and each revival changed its style.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nomi Kutani Ware Museum

能美市加賀

Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.

石川県 · Art & museums

Yamanaka Lacquerware

加賀市加賀

Held to have Japan's finest woodturning: blanks cut with the grain, then scored on the lathe in hairline rings.

石川県 · Art & museums

Hashidate Shipowners' Village

加賀市加賀

Once called Japan's richest village; the shipowners fenced their houses with old hull planks under red tiles.

石川県 · Art & museums

Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan

加賀市加賀

Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.

石川県 · Art & museums

Natadera

小松市加賀

Halls built into the rock caves; garden, cliff and architecture composed as a single continuous view.

石川県 · Art & museums

Miyamoto Saburo Museum of Art

小松市加賀

One painter's swing from wartime documentary painting to lush postwar nudes, shown in his home town.

石川県 · Art & museums

Komatsu City Museum

小松市加賀

At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nanao Art Museum

七尾市能登

In the birthplace of Hasegawa Tohaku, painter of the Pine Trees screens, and holding an annual exhibition of his work.

石川県 · Art & museums

Ipponsugi Street, Nanao

七尾市能登

The merchant street of old Noto, its townhouses still trading, each shopfront designed differently.

石川県 · Art & museums

Wajima Lacquerware

輪島市能登

Powdered diatomaceous earth in the ground coat and 124 divided steps make it the toughest lacquer in Japan.

石川県 · Art & museums

Wajima Museum of Urushi Art

輪島市能登

Said to be the world's only museum devoted solely to lacquer, comparing Japanese work with Chinese and Southeast Asian.

石川県 · Art & museums

Shiroyone Senmaida

輪島市能登

A thousand and four paddies stacked down to the sea, each too small for a machine and still worked by hand.

石川県 · Art & museums

Sojiji Soin

輪島市能登

Once the head temple of Soto Zen; rebuilt after fire and earthquake, its cloisters still bind the halls together.

石川県 · Art & museums

Suzu Ware

珠洲市能登

Medieval grey-black stoneware shipped as far as Hokkaido, extinct for 500 years and revived in 1976.

石川県 · Art & museums

Oku-Noto Triennale

珠洲市能登

Held at the tip of a peninsula, using depopulated hamlets as its venue and their residents as its guides.

石川県 · Art & museums

Agehama Salt Making

珠洲市能登

Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.

石川県 · Art & museums

Keta Taisha

羽咋市能登

Behind the halls lies a primeval wood no one may enter - preserved precisely by being left alone.

石川県 · Art & museums

Shiramine District

白山市加賀

Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.

石川県 · Art & museums

Shirayama Hime Shrine Treasury

白山市加賀

Head shrine of 3,000 Hakusan shrines, keeping Heian-period guardian lions among its offerings.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy

かほく市金沢

Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.