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石川県 · Art & museums

Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of History

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Three Meiji brick arsenals in a row on a wooded hill, all Important Cultural Properties.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nakamura Memorial Museum

金沢市金沢

A sake brewer's tea utensils, shown in his relocated house so the bowls are seen from a tea room.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Noh Museum

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Masks and robes of the Kaga Hosho school, with masks visitors may wear to feel how narrow the sight becomes.

石川県 · Art & museums

Maeda Tosanokami Family Museum

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The heirlooms of the Kaga domain's chief retainers - armour and letters marking the rank of a great house.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kenrokuen

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One of Japan's three great gardens; the ropes rigged each winter to save the pines have become the winter view itself.

石川県 · Art & museums

Seisonkaku

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A lord built it for his mother; one room's ceiling is painted in imported ultramarine, a luxury of pure colour.

石川県 · Art & museums

Higashi Chaya District

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Teahouse buildings raise their upper floors for the guest rooms; fine red lattices align the whole street.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kazuemachi Chaya District

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Three-storey teahouses along the river, with narrow lanes dropping to the water.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nagamachi Samurai District

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Earthen walls line the samurai quarter, wrapped in straw mats each winter - protection that becomes a seasonal sight.

石川県 · Art & museums

Oyama Shrine Gate

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A three-tier gate mixing Japanese, Chinese and Western elements, topped with Dutch stained glass.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Castle

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Roofed in lead tiles that weather white; one turret is built on a rhombus plan to widen its field of view.

石川県 · Art & museums

Myoryuji

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Two storeys from outside, four floors and seven levels within - a temple built as a defensive machine.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Yuzen

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More realist than Kyoto yuzen - it even paints the holes insects left in leaves - and built on five set colours.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Gold Leaf

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Ninety-nine percent of Japan's gold leaf, beaten to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre - the gilding of Kinkakuji and Nikko alike.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Lacquerware

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Begun when the domain imported Edo lacquerers; its raised maki-e uses gold without restraint.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Inlay

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Gold and silver hammered into cut iron, a technique born on armour and now turned to jewellery.

石川県 · Art & museums

Ohi Museum

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Three and a half centuries, father to son: bowls formed entirely by hand without a wheel, under an amber glaze.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kutani Ware Museum

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Rooms divided by style, so the bold colour fields of old Kutani can be set against the later fine red painting.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kutani Ware

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Five overglaze colours covering the surface entirely; the kiln died out once, and each revival changed its style.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nomi Kutani Ware Museum

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Kiln-site sherds trace the technique's changes, beside a working studio and climbing kiln.

石川県 · Art & museums

Yamanaka Lacquerware

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Held to have Japan's finest woodturning: blanks cut with the grain, then scored on the lathe in hairline rings.

石川県 · Art & museums

Hashidate Shipowners' Village

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Once called Japan's richest village; the shipowners fenced their houses with old hull planks under red tiles.

石川県 · Art & museums

Rosanjin's Lodging Iroha Soan

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Where a young Rosanjin lodged and met the Kutani potters and lacquerers who shaped everything he made later.

石川県 · Art & museums

Natadera

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Halls built into the rock caves; garden, cliff and architecture composed as a single continuous view.