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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.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Setogura Museum

瀬戸市尾張

A Showa-era pottery town rebuilt full size, the kiln sheds standing beside the station that carried the wares out.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Maneki-neko Museum

瀬戸市尾張

Three thousand beckoning cats; set side by side, each district's face and paw height give its origin away.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokoname Ware

常滑市西三河

The oldest and largest of the six ancient kilns; its iron-rich clay fires vermilion, and its teapots are said to soften the tea.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokoname Pottery Walk

常滑市西三河

A lane paved and walled with discarded clay pipes and bottles - industrial waste become the fabric of the town.

愛知県 · Art & museums

INAX Live Museum

常滑市西三河

Six buildings on the single theme of clay, from Islamic and European decorative tiles to a hall where visitors handle mud.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Meiji Mura

犬山市尾張

Sixty-seven Meiji buildings saved from demolition and rebuilt here, including the entrance of Wright's Imperial Hotel.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Inuyama Castle

犬山市尾張

A National Treasure keep, small but placed on a cliff above the river - the siting is the castle's whole argument.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Joan Tea House

犬山市尾張

Built by Nobunaga's brother and one of only three tea houses designated National Treasure, lit through a screen of split bamboo.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Inuyama Festival Floats

犬山市尾張

Three-tiered floats with clockwork puppets performing on top, each hung with 365 lanterns after dark.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

豊田市西三河

Held to be Yoshio Taniguchi's finest work: white volumes over water and lawn, the route framing view after view.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Migishi Setsuko Memorial Museum

一宮市尾張

For a painter who kept working in an era that gave women little room, on the site of the house where she was born.