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岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gujo Odori

郡上市中濃

A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Kamioka Mine

飛騨市飛騨

A town built around a mine, its company housing stepped up the slope beside the tunnel mouths.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Tarumi Railway

本巣市岐阜

A single track following one valley, so track, river and cherry trees line up and the journey becomes the viewing.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gifu Great Buddha

岐阜市岐阜

A great Buddha of bamboo, sutra-covered paper and lacquer - built not of bronze or wood but of paper.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

静岡市中部

Collecting landscape painting East and West, with a Rodin wing of 32 works including the Gates of Hell.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shizuoka City Museum of Art

静岡市中部

No collection of its own; a gallery set inside a station-front commercial building, in the middle of the commute.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum

静岡市中部

For the Living National Treasure of stencil dyeing, in a stone building that ranks among Seiichi Shirai's best.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Toro Site

静岡市中部

A Yayoi paddy village found during the war - the first time Japanese archaeology took a whole settlement as its object.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kunozan Toshogu

静岡市中部

Ieyasu was first buried here, six years before Nikko; this is the prototype of the gongen style, atop 1,159 steps.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shizuoka Sengen Shrine

静岡市中部

Sixty years in the building; twenty-six of its halls are Important Cultural Properties, a rare concentration of late Edo polychromy.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Suruga Bamboo Basketry

静岡市中部

Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Suruga Lacquerware

静岡市中部

Begun when Ieyasu gathered craftsmen at his retirement capital, and carried from vessels into furniture.

静岡県 · Art & museums

MOA Museum of Art

熱海市伊豆

Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kiunkaku

熱海市伊豆

A magnate's villa turned inn, where Japanese rooms run straight into Art Deco parlours and a stained-glass bath.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Sawada Seiko Memorial Museum

熱海市伊豆

A wood sculptor from Atami who carved Buddhist images by the methods of modern sculpture.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art

伊東市伊豆

Collects 20th-century art on one theme alone - the human figure; Japan's first museum devoted to that century.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Tokaikan

伊東市伊豆

Each floor was built by a different master carpenter competing with the others, so no two transoms are alike.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Uehara Museum of Art

下田市伊豆

A Buddhist wing and a modern wing, built on decades of surveying the Buddhist sculpture of the peninsula.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Namako Walls of Shimoda

下田市伊豆

Flat tiles fixed to the wall with plaster ridged over the joints - fireproofing that became a black-and-white grid.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Izu Chohachi Art Museum

松崎町伊豆

For Chohachi Irie, who modelled pictures in plaster with a trowel; plasterers came from all Japan to build the museum itself.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Namako Walls of Matsuzaki

松崎町伊豆

Nearly two hundred namako-walled buildings, the plasterers' art left where it belongs - on ordinary houses.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Sano Art Museum

三島市伊豆

A private museum of Japanese swords, its lighting designed specifically to reveal the grain and temper line of a blade.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Mishima Taisha Treasure Hall

三島市伊豆

A Kamakura-period lacquer box, National Treasure: plum branches in gold powder with shell inlay, a summit of medieval craft.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Bernard Buffet Museum

長泉町東部

Built for a living painter; the world's largest holding of Bernard Buffet, in a building by Kiyonori Kikutake.