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愛知県 · Art & museums

Iwase Bunko Library

西尾市西三河

Japan's first private public library; its exhibitions treat bindings and illustrations as objects, not only texts.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Matcha of Nishio

西尾市西三河

Among Japan's leading matcha districts; the black shading covers change the landscape by season, and the stone mills still turn.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Meito Art Museum

長久手市尾張

Narrowed to modern Nihonga and especially bijinga, with a substantial group of works by Uemura Shoen.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Hosa Library

名古屋市尾張

The Owari Tokugawa library intact - a rare case where what a daimyo house actually read survives as a whole.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Sanage Kiln Sites

豊田市西三河

Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Korankei and Asuke

豊田市西三河

A post town on the salt road, beside a gorge that monks began planting with maples two centuries ago.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyokawa Inari

豊川市東三河

A Buddhist temple enshrining a fox deity; a thousand donated stone foxes stand massed in one corner.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokoname Ceramics Institute

常滑市西三河

Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Nagoya TV Tower

名古屋市尾張

Japan's first integrated broadcast tower, standing on the axis of a 100-metre-wide avenue cut after the war.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Shippo Art Village

あま市尾張

In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Okazaki

岡崎市西三河

Masons summoned to build the castle stayed; the town became Japan's source of stone lanterns and figures.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Kiyosu Castle

清須市尾張

Nobunaga's first seat; the entire town was later moved to Nagoya - a rare case of a city relocated whole.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Handa Canal

半田市西三河

A canal that shipped vinegar and sake to Edo, lined with black-boarded brewery warehouses.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Oni Festival of Toyohashi

豊橋市東三河

A red demon and a tengu do battle and scatter white powder; the masks are repaired and handed down.

三重県 · Art & museums

Mie Prefectural Art Museum

津市中勢

Systematic in Soga Shohaku, the eccentric Edo ink painter who stayed long in this province and left his work behind.

三重県 · Art & museums

Mie Prefectural Museum

津市中勢

Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.

三重県 · Art & museums

Sekisui Museum

津市中勢

Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.

三重県 · Art & museums

Senjuji

津市中勢

Its main hall takes 725 tatami mats - among the largest wooden buildings in Japan; both halls became National Treasures in 2017.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ise Jingu

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Rebuilt identically every twenty years for thirteen centuries - architecture preserved not as an object but as an act.

三重県 · Art & museums

Jingu Chokokan Museum

伊勢市伊勢志摩

A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.

三重県 · Art & museums

Sengukan Museum

伊勢市伊勢志摩

The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kawasaki Merchant District, Ise

伊勢市伊勢志摩

The wholesalers' quarter that supplied the pilgrim trade, its storehouses opening straight onto the river.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ise Katagami Stencils

鈴鹿市北勢

Stencils for dyeing kimono, sometimes cut with over a hundred holes per square centimetre - admired abroad as art in themselves.

三重県 · Art & museums

Suzuka Traditional Crafts Hall

鈴鹿市北勢

On stencil cutting and inkstick making, with carvers working in front of visitors.