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岩手県 · Art & museums

Morioka History and Culture Museum

盛岡市県央

Samurai armour and swords of the Nambu clan, shown beside a full-size festival float.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Morioka Memorial Museum

盛岡市県央

Devoted to 130 figures from Morioka, with a strong holding of letters and calligraphy.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Fukazawa Koko Museum

盛岡市県央

Watercolours of wild flowers, shown in a former bank on the Nakatsu river.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kogensha

盛岡市県央

The publisher of Kenji Miyazawa's only book of tales in his lifetime, now a mingei craft shop.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Nambu Ironware

盛岡市県央

Four centuries of cast ironware; the hailstone pattern on each kettle is punched by hand.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kamasada

盛岡市県央

A Nambu ironware workshop known for updating traditional forms for modern use.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Morioka Handi-Works Square

盛岡市県央

Fourteen workshops under one roof, where visitors watch and try the crafts themselves.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Goshono Jomon Museum

一戸町県央

The site that proved Jomon pit dwellings had earth-covered roofs. A World Heritage component.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Chusonji Konjikido

平泉町県南

A hall entirely covered in gold leaf, inlaid with mother-of-pearl - the sum of Heian craft in one building.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Motsuji

平泉町県南

The best-preserved Pure Land garden of the Heian period, its pond shaped to echo a rocky coast.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Hiraizumi Cultural Heritage Center

平泉町県南

Finds from the seat of the Northern Fujiwara, whose century of rule made Hiraizumi a rival to Kyoto.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Takkoku no Iwaya

平泉町県南

A hall wedged into a cliff hollow, beside a Buddha's face carved into the rock wall.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Ichinoseki City Museum

一関市県南

Centred on Mokusa swords, an early source of the curved Japanese blade.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Historic Park Esashi Fujiwara

奥州市県南

Full-scale reconstructions of Heian palaces, used repeatedly as a period-drama film set.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Shoboji

奥州市県南

Its thatched main hall is among the largest in Japan, a single roof of some 720 square metres.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Takano Choei Memorial Museum

奥州市県南

Manuscripts of a Dutch-studies scholar, showing how Western knowledge was copied under seclusion.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kitakami City Museum

北上市県南

A local museum with an open-air village of relocated farmhouses beside it.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Museum of Oni

北上市県南

A museum about demons alone, from local Onikenbai dance masks to demon faces worldwide.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Tono Municipal Museum

遠野市県南

Japan's first museum devoted to folklore, built around the tales Kunio Yanagita recorded here.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Denshoen

遠野市県南

A relocated L-shaped farmhouse where people and horses lived under one roof.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Tono Story Museum

遠野市県南

A museum of storytelling voices, built into an old inn and Yanagita's relocated house.

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Miyazawa Kenji Memorial Museum

花巻市県央

Manuscripts, minerals and the cello of the poet Kenji Miyazawa, on the slope of Mt Koshio.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kenji Ihatov Center

花巻市県央

A research centre on Kenji Miyazawa that also stages art and music inspired by his work.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Hanamaki City Museum

花巻市県央

Archaeology and castle-town history of Hanamaki, with a large local excavation holding.