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静岡県 · Art & museums

Kilns and Dyeing of Fujieda

藤枝市中部

Kiln sites scattered along a river whose clay fed them, and whose water fed the dye houses too.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Modern Villas of Izu

伊東市伊豆

Villas and inns where writers and painters stayed, scattered down the peninsula - modern Japanese leisure in built form.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Slopes of Atami

熱海市伊豆

A city stacked down a slope to the sea, its stairs and alleys serving as the street plan.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Omaezaki Lighthouse

御前崎市中部

One of Richard Brunton's lighthouses, a white cylinder on the point; an Important Cultural Property.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Woodwork of Shizuoka

静岡市中部

Craftsmen gathered to build the shrine and stayed; the woodworking line runs from altars to furniture to model kits.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Instrument Making of Hamamatsu

浜松市西部

It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Tea Houses of Shizuoka

静岡市中部

As a tea-growing province it keeps many tea houses - small spaces designed as one with their gardens.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art

名古屋市尾張

A systematic 20th-century collection, holding one of the very few Klimt oils in Japan.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Nagoya City Art Museum

名古屋市尾張

Four collecting pillars, including a rare Japanese holding of the Mexican muralists, in a Kurokawa building.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokugawa Art Museum

名古屋市尾張

The Owari Tokugawa treasury intact, including the 12th-century Tale of Genji scrolls - shown a few scenes a year, each November.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Nagoya Castle Honmaru Palace

名古屋市尾張

A palace burned in 1945 and rebuilt in real timber from surveys and photographs, its Kano-school gold rooms recreated.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Atsuta Jingu Treasure Hall

名古屋市尾張

The treasury of the shrine of the sacred sword, holding over 6,000 dedicated blades shown in rotation.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art

名古屋市尾張

Three centuries of French painting hung in order, with a room where visitors may sit on Galle and Majorelle furniture.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Furukawa Art Museum

名古屋市尾張

Its annex is a fine sukiya house, where tea is served looking into the garden.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Kuwayama Art Museum

名古屋市尾張

Tea utensils rearranged each season according to the logic of a tea gathering, not of art history.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Showa Art Museum

名古屋市尾張

Edo tea houses moved into the garden, so the utensils and the rooms they were made for sit on one site.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Futabakan

名古屋市尾張

The house of Japan's first actress and an electricity magnate, relocated and restored with its stained glass.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Yokiso

名古屋市尾張

A department-store family's estate; one villa mixes Indian motifs and hides a ballroom in its basement.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Arimatsu Shibori Tie-Dye

名古屋市尾張

Over a hundred distinct resist techniques - tied, stitched, clamped - grown as souvenirs for travellers on the Tokaido.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Arimatsu Historic District

名古屋市尾張

A highway street of shibori wholesalers, their thick fireproof plaster fronts still standing.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Nagoya Yuzen and Black Crest Dyeing

名古屋市尾張

A restrained, near-monochrome yuzen; the related craft dyes a kimono black while leaving the family crest white.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Owari Cloisonne

あま市尾張

Silver wires outline the design on copper before the enamel is laid in; Meiji exports made it famous worldwide.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum

瀬戸市尾張

Among Japan's largest public ceramics museums, running from the ancient Sanage kilns to the present, with kiln sites on the grounds.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Seto Ware

瀬戸市尾張

Alone among medieval Japanese kilns it used glaze, and its name became the common Japanese word for pottery itself.