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長野県 · Art & museums

Matsumoto Castle

松本市中信

A National Treasure keep, its black boards re-lacquered every year, with a moon-viewing turret added in peacetime.

長野県 · Art & museums

Craft Fair Matsumoto

松本市中信

The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.

長野県 · Art & museums

Chihiro Art Museum Azumino

松川村中信

For the picture-book painter Chihiro Iwasaki; the building lies low toward the Alps with no edge between museum and park.

長野県 · Art & museums

Rokuzan Art Museum

安曇野市中信

For Morie Ogiwara, where modern Japanese sculpture began; built by donations from 300,000 local people.

長野県 · Art & museums

Tabuchi Yukio Memorial Museum

安曇野市中信

A mountain photographer's archive, his images hung beside the minutely painted butterflies he also made.

長野県 · Art & museums

Toyoshina Museum of Modern Art

安曇野市中信

Sculpture set inside a Romanesque-styled building, centred on Hiroatsu Takata, who studied under Rodin's shadow.

長野県 · Art & museums

Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi

安曇野市中信

A picture-book gallery in a pine wood, showing the brushwork that printing always loses.

長野県 · Art & museums

Kitazawa Museum of Art

諏訪市南信

One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.

長野県 · Art & museums

Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts

諏訪市南信

Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.

長野県 · Art & museums

Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira

諏訪市南信

Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.

長野県 · Art & museums

Ilf Museum of Art

岡谷市南信

For Takei Takeo, who coined the Japanese word for children's illustration and made 139 hand-bound limited books.

長野県 · Art & museums

Okaya Silk Museum

岡谷市南信

Once the world's greatest silk-reeling town; a working mill next door still draws thread from cocoons.

長野県 · Art & museums

Togariishi Jomon Archaeological Museum

茅野市南信

The only museum holding two National Treasure clay figures - the swelling Venus and the masked goddess.

長野県 · Art & museums

Mugonkan

上田市東信

Only paintings by art students killed in the war; beside each hangs the painter's age and where he died, nothing else.

長野県 · Art & museums

KAITA EPITAPH

上田市東信

Only painters who died young; their drawings hang in a dim room, most of them made before the artist turned thirty.

長野県 · Art & museums

Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda

上田市東信

Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.

長野県 · Art & museums

Zensanji Pagoda

上田市東信

A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.

長野県 · Art & museums

Ueda Tsumugi

上田市東信

Said to last three generations; its striped and checked colourways follow local conventions.

長野県 · Art & museums

Hokusaikan

小布施町北信

Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.

長野県 · Art & museums

Ganshoin

小布施町北信

Hokusai painted this 21-mat ceiling at 89; the phoenix is said to meet your eye from anywhere in the hall.

長野県 · Art & museums

Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery

小布施町北信

A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.

長野県 · Art & museums

Obuse Townscape Project

小布施町北信

Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.

長野県 · Art & museums

Sezon Museum of Modern Art

軽井沢町東信

Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.

長野県 · Art & museums

Karuizawa New Art Museum

軽井沢町東信

A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.