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山梨県 · Art & museums

Kiyosato Highland Buildings

北杜市国中

A highland community founded by an American missionary, its timber lodge buildings still standing in the woods.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Koumi Line and the Yatsugatake

北杜市国中

A railway at 1,375 metres, a single drawn line across the plateau that photographers return to.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Enzan

甲州市国中

Stone that weathers to rust-red, quarried for gardens; the craft includes choosing and setting it, not only cutting.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Jindai Zakura

北杜市国中

One of Japan's three great cherries: hollowed out and held up by props, standing as a form made by time.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Modern Architecture of Kofu

甲府市国中

From pseudo-Western schools to postwar modernism, Kofu keeps the layers of a provincial city's modernity.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Villages of Hayakawa

早川町峡南

A pilgrimage stop between two sacred mountains, its houses stepped up stone terraces on a steep slope.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Implements of Minobu

身延町峡南

A temple-gate trade in Buddhist implements, the beads turned and the tassels braided by separate hands.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Zen Temples of Kai

甲州市国中

Zen spread here under Takeda patronage, leaving medieval halls and images scattered across the province.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Jewellery Quarter of Kofu

甲府市国中

A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Mt Kaikoma and Mountain Worship

北杜市国中

A white granite peak worshipped as a body of the god, its climbing path punctuated by stone shrines.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Honcho Street, Fujiyoshida

富士吉田市郡内（富士北麓）

A street aimed straight at Mt Fuji, its Showa shopfronts and the mountain falling into one frame.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Stone Walls of Kofu Castle

甲府市国中

The keep is gone; only the rough-stacked stone walls remain, rising in the middle of the modern city.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Round Stone Deities of Kai

笛吹市国中

In this basin the roadside deity is not carved into a figure but is simply a rounded stone - a form found almost nowhere else.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Shichiriiwa Cliffs of Nirasaki

韮崎市国中

Thirty kilometres of cliff formed by pyroclastic flow, with halls dug sideways into the rock face.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Alluvial Fan of the Midai River

南アルプス市国中

Stone works built to tame a violent river; the terrain and the villages on it were shaped by that engineering.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Joinery of Kai

甲府市国中

Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.

長野県 · Art & museums

Nagano Prefectural Art Museum

長野市北信

Rebuilt beside Zenkoji, its roof opened free to the public as a 'landscape museum' framing the town and mountains.

長野県 · Art & museums

Higashiyama Kaii Gallery

長野市北信

Holds the 970 works Higashiyama gave to the province, in a Taniguchi building reflected in still water.

長野県 · Art & museums

Zenkoji

長野市北信

Among Japan's largest wooden buildings of the 1700s, with a T-shaped roof and a pitch-black passage felt through by hand.

長野県 · Art & museums

Kitano Museum of Art

長野市北信

A construction family's collection running from Yokoyama Taikan to European modernism.

長野県 · Art & museums

Matsumoto City Museum of Art

松本市中信

Yayoi Kusama was born here; her polka dots run from the permanent gallery out to the sculptures and even the vending machines.

長野県 · Art & museums

Japan Ukiyo-e Museum

松本市中信

A hundred thousand prints gathered over five generations by one Matsumoto merchant family - the largest such private holding in the world.

長野県 · Art & museums

Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum

松本市中信

Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.

長野県 · Art & museums

Former Kaichi School

松本市中信

The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.