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岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gifu City Museum of History

岐阜市岐阜

On the castle town Nobunaga built, with his free-market street reconstructed at full size to be walked through.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gifu Media Cosmos

岐阜市岐阜

Toyo Ito's lattice of thin timber spans the whole hall; fabric 'globes' divide air and light instead of air-conditioning.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gifu Lanterns

岐阜市岐阜

Mino paper stretched so thin the bamboo ribs show through when the lantern is lit.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gifu Paper Umbrellas

岐阜市岐阜

Most of Japan's paper umbrellas came from here; looked up into, the threads binding the ribs form a geometric pattern.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Kawaramachi District

岐阜市岐阜

A wholesalers' quarter on the river, its lattice fronts once fronting the paper and lantern trades.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Cormorant Fishing of the Nagara

岐阜市岐阜

Hereditary fishermen of the Imperial Household keep the dress and boats of 1,300 years ago, working by firelight.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu

多治見市東濃

Japan's only public museum devoted to contemporary ceramics, inside Isozaki's Ceramic Park.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Tajimi Mosaic Tile Museum

多治見市東濃

Terunobu Fujimori shaped the building like the clay pit itself, its walls studded with tiles so the architecture is the specimen.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Mino Ware

多治見市東濃

Over half of Japan's tableware; and the place where Shino and Oribe first made deliberate distortion into beauty.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Toki Mino Ceramics History Museum

土岐市東濃

Sherds from the kilns that fired Shino and Oribe - technique read from the failures rather than the finished pots.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Mizunami Ceramics Museum

瑞浪市東濃

From Momoyama tea ware to modern export porcelain, including the designs made purely for foreign markets.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Arakawa Toyozo Museum

可児市東濃

The man who found a Shino sherd in these hills and proved Momoyama tea ware was made in Mino, not Kyoto.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Udatsu Townscape of Mino

美濃市中濃

Firewalls between houses grew into displays of wealth here - the origin of a Japanese idiom for getting ahead in life.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Hon-Minoshi Paper

美濃市中濃

Paper made here survives in the 8th-century Shosoin; fibres crossed both ways make it thin, even and hard to tear.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Mino Washi Akari Art Exhibition

美濃市中濃

Paper light sculptures set out along the old street, with the town's own lamps switched off for the night.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Seki Blades

関市中濃

Swordsmiths gathered here from the 1300s; the town still ships blades worldwide.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Seki Sword Tradition Museum

関市中濃

Smiths forge in public here on set days - the sparks and the sound included in what is shown.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Enku Buddhas

関市中濃

The monk Enku carved with a hatchet as he walked Japan; over 5,000 survive, smiling out of raw split wood.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Sanmachi District, Takayama

高山市飛騨

A merchant town under direct shogunal rule, its eaves heights and lattice spacing aligned along the whole street.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Takayama Festival Floats

高山市飛騨

Floats into which the Hida craftsmen poured everything - carving, lacquer, metalwork and clockwork puppets.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Takayama Jinya

高山市飛騨

The only shogunal magistrate's office left standing in Japan - office, residence and granary intact as one complex.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Kusakabe Folk Museum

高山市飛騨

A merchant house whose massive beam frame was deliberately left exposed to display the Hida carpenters' skill.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Yoshijima Family Residence

高山市飛騨

A brewer's house next door, its slender members latticed and lit from a high window so the frame reads as pattern.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Ichii Wood Carving

高山市飛騨

Carved from yew and never painted, so the wood's red and white heartwood does the work and deepens with age.