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石川県 · Art & museums

Yamashiro Kosoyu

加賀市加賀

A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop

金沢市金沢

The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.

石川県 · Art & museums

Teahouse Architecture of Kanazawa

金沢市金沢

Guest rooms painted in ultramarine and red ochre - colour permitted only in the pleasure quarters of a samurai town.

石川県 · Art & museums

Notojima Glass Art Museum

七尾市能登

Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.

石川県 · Art & museums

Wakura Onsen

七尾市能登

A seaside spa whose inns use Wajima lacquer and Kaga yuzen indoors, putting the region's crafts inside the architecture.

石川県 · Art & museums

Magaki Fences of Noto

輪島市能登

Five-metre bamboo fences packed solid against the winter wind - a wall produced purely by function.

石川県 · Art & museums

Teramachi Temple District

金沢市金沢

Temples massed at the edge of the castle town for defence - seventy of them, wall after wall, gate after gate.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll

金沢市金沢

A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Mizuhiki

金沢市金沢

Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kiriko Festivals of Noto

能登町能登

Giant lacquered and gilded lanterns, up to fifteen metres tall, carried each summer by over 200 hamlets.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Station Tsuzumi Gate

金沢市金沢

Timber columns shaped as Noh hand drums, met by a glass dome - a traditional form built by modern structure.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Fine Arts Museum

福井市嶺北

Built around Okakura Tenshin's papers and Asian art, and a centre for research on the early Edo painter Iwasa Matabei.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui City Art Museum

福井市嶺北

Centred on the sculptor Hiroatsu Takata, in a Kurokawa building of cones set against boxes.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History

福井市嶺北

A 1950s street rebuilt at full size, its objects placed to match period photographs.

福井県 · Art & museums

Ichijodani Asakura Family Site

福井市嶺北

A Sengoku castle town buried whole and excavated street by street; its four gardens are Places of Special Scenic Beauty.

福井県 · Art & museums

Ichijodani Asakura Museum

福井市嶺北

Excavated stone paving preserved exactly where it was found - the Sengoku ground lies under the museum floor.

福井県 · Art & museums

Yokokan Garden

福井市嶺北

The lord's villa sits so low over the pond that, seated on the tatami, water fills the whole field of view.

福井県 · Art & museums

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

勝山市嶺北

A silver egg half-buried in the hills; among the world's three great dinosaur museums, architecture and display conceived together.

福井県 · Art & museums

Heisenji Hakusan Shrine

勝山市嶺北

A religious city of 6,000 lodgings, now under moss - only the stone paths still run through the forest.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Washi

越前市嶺北

Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Washi Village

越前市嶺北

An Edo papermaking house moved here, with craftsmen working inside it - tools, building and hands in one place.

福井県 · Art & museums

Okamoto and Otaki Shrines

越前市嶺北

Its cypress-bark roofs flow from hall to sanctuary in overlapping waves - said to be the most complex shrine roof in Japan.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Blades

越前市嶺北

Begun when a Kyoto swordsmith made sickles here; two blades are hammered out together in a technique found nowhere else.

福井県 · Art & museums

Echizen Chests

越前市嶺北

Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.