秋田県 · Art & museums
Neburi Nagashi Museum
秋田市 中央
A nine-metre bamboo pole hung with 46 lanterns, shown and demonstrated all year.
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秋田県 · Art & museums
Akita Kanto Festival
秋田市 中央
Fifty-kilo lantern poles balanced on foreheads and hips, standing in for ears of rice.
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Tsuchizaki Float Festival
秋田市 中央
Warrior-doll floats carrying satirical placards on their backs; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.
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Akita Silver Filigree
秋田市 中央
Silver wire finer than hair, coiled into spirals - a mine technology turned into jewellery.
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Yabase Doll
秋田市 中央
Unglazed clay dolls painted in mud pigments, a folk tradition brought back from near extinction.
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Akita Arts Center
秋田市 中央
The 1967 former prefectural museum reborn as a place to make art rather than only view it.
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BIYONG POINT
秋田市 中央
A city gallery run by Akita University of Art, alternating student and invited shows.
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Kakunodate Samurai District
仙北市 県南
Black-fenced samurai streets under weeping cherries, laid out in the early 1600s and preserved.
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Aoyagi Family Residence
仙北市 県南
The largest of Kakunodate's samurai houses, with storehouses of armour and antiquities.
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Ishiguro Family Residence
仙北市 県南
Kakunodate's oldest samurai house, still lived in by the family, with a tortoise carved into the transom.
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Kabazaiku Craft Museum
仙北市 県南
Wild cherry bark planed thin and pressed onto wood; airtight, and so ideal for tea caddies.
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Statue of Tatsuko
仙北市 県南
A gilded bronze on the shore of Lake Tazawa by the sculptor Yasutake Funakoshi.
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Shiraiwa Ware
仙北市 県南
A kiln extinct for a century, revived in 1975; known for its blue namako glaze.
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Itaya Basketry
仙北市 県南
Baskets woven from split Itaya maple, a winter craft of farming households.
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Kamihinokinai Paper Balloons
仙北市 県南
Eight-metre paper balloons painted with warriors, launched into the winter night sky.
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Masuda Storehouses
横手市 県南
Lacquered storehouses built inside the house itself - a form born of deep snow and merchant wealth.
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Yokote Kamakura
横手市 県南
A hundred snow huts lit from within, each enshrining the water deity.
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Nakayama Doll
横手市 県南
A kiln of clay dolls and bells, best known for its annual zodiac bell.
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Yokote Masuda Manga Museum
横手市 県南
Japan's first museum for original manga drawings, holding 400,000 sheets and researching how to preserve them.
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Kawatsura Lacquerware
湯沢市 県南
Finished by brush without polishing, this lacquer was always made for daily bowls, not display.
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Inaniwa Streets
湯沢市 県南
The merchant houses of the Inaniwa noodle district, along a street lined with water channels.
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Namahage Museum
男鹿市 中央
A hundred and fifty Namahage masks, one style per village - the same rite, a different face in each.
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Oga Shinzan Folk Museum
男鹿市 中央
In a thatched farmhouse, the Namahage rite is performed exactly as it enters a home.
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Oyu Stone Circles
鹿角市 県北
Two stone circles fifty metres across, each with a radiating 'sundial' setting at its heart.
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