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三重県 · Art & museums

Suzuka Inksticks

鈴鹿市北勢

Soot from burnt rapeseed oil kneaded with glue; the fineness of the particles decides the ink's colour and bleed.

三重県 · Art & museums

Banko Ware

四日市市北勢

Eighty percent of Japan's clay pots; the district developed a heat-proof body, and its unglazed teapots fire purple-brown.

三重県 · Art & museums

Banko no Sato Hall

四日市市北勢

The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.

三重県 · Art & museums

Rokkaen

桑名市北勢

The only Conder house surviving outside the big cities: a turreted Western villa joined directly to a Japanese wing.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kuwana Ironware

桑名市北勢

Casting since the Edo period, from cooking pots to - today - a large share of Japan's manhole covers.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kuwana Senbazuru

桑名市北勢

Multiple cranes folded from one sheet, still joined; a 1797 book records 49 different configurations.

三重県 · Art & museums

Paramita Museum

菰野町北勢

Permanently shows Masuo Ikeda's late ceramic Heart Sutra series, in a sculpture garden facing the Suzuka range.

三重県 · Art & museums

Seki-juku

亀山市中勢

No other Tokaido post town keeps this much of its Edo streetscape - 1.8 kilometres, with cables buried and signs controlled.

三重県 · Art & museums

Matsusaka Merchant House

松阪市中勢

A cotton merchant's home town house: plain to the street, lavish within - the merchant code in built form.

三重県 · Art & museums

Motoori Norinaga Memorial Museum

松阪市中勢

The scholar who spent 35 years deciphering the Kojiki; his manuscripts survive, and the study he hung with bells.

三重県 · Art & museums

Matsuura Takeshiro Memorial Museum

松阪市中勢

The man who walked Ezo six times and proposed the name Hokkaido; he built a one-mat study from old timbers gathered nationwide.

三重県 · Art & museums

Matsusaka Cotton

松阪市中勢

Striped cotton that swept Edo: sober enough to slip past sumptuary law, but luxurious in the quality of its thread.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ware

伊賀市伊賀

Fired so hot the pots crack - and the cracks are prized; the kiln where Momoyama tea masters found beauty in damage.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Braided Cords

伊賀市伊賀

Silk threads crossed on a wooden stand; the craft moved from sword cords to kimono sashes and survived.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ninja Museum

伊賀市伊賀

A relocated farmhouse full of mechanisms - revolving walls and floor caches - shown as carpentry, not legend.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ueno Castle

伊賀市伊賀

Its stone wall rises thirty metres straight from the moat, among the highest in Japan.

三重県 · Art & museums

Basho Memorial Museum

伊賀市伊賀

In Basho's birthplace, showing his poem cards and travel drafts as calligraphy.

三重県 · Art & museums

Toba Sea-Folk Museum

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

The building that made Hiroshi Naito's name: timber-framed storehouses standing as strongly as what they hold.

三重県 · Art & museums

Mikimoto Pearl Island

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

Where cultured pearls first succeeded; its Meiji exhibition pieces come apart and reassemble into different ornaments.

三重県 · Art & museums

Saiku Historical Museum

明和町伊勢志摩

The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kumano Kodo Iseji

尾鷲市東紀州

Stone paving laid so the rain could not wash the path away - a structure built for walking that became the landscape.

三重県 · Art & museums

Hana no Iwaya

熊野市東紀州

No building at all: a 45-metre rock is the deity, and twice a year a rope is strung from its summit.

三重県 · Art & museums

Onigajo

熊野市東紀州

A kilometre of rock terraces cut by waves and lifted by earthquakes - a colonnade made without a hand.

三重県 · Art & museums

Pseudo-Western Buildings of Tsu

津市中勢

As the provincial capital, Tsu keeps Meiji public buildings in which local carpenters read Western style their own way.