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三重県 · Art & museums

Mie Prefectural Museum

津市中勢

Natural history and human history in one building, organised around the bay that shaped the province.

三重県 · Art & museums

Sekisui Museum

津市中勢

Holds the tea bowls of Kawakita Handeishi, a banker-potter ranked in his day beside Rosanjin.

三重県 · Art & museums

Senjuji

津市中勢

Its main hall takes 725 tatami mats - among the largest wooden buildings in Japan; both halls became National Treasures in 2017.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ise Jingu

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Rebuilt identically every twenty years for thirteen centuries - architecture preserved not as an object but as an act.

三重県 · Art & museums

Jingu Chokokan Museum

伊勢市伊勢志摩

A Western building by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, holding the robes and treasures replaced at each rebuilding.

三重県 · Art & museums

Sengukan Museum

伊勢市伊勢志摩

The rebuilding shown stage by stage, with a full-size section of the sanctuary that makes the roof's thickness real.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kawasaki Merchant District, Ise

伊勢市伊勢志摩

The wholesalers' quarter that supplied the pilgrim trade, its storehouses opening straight onto the river.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ise Katagami Stencils

鈴鹿市北勢

Stencils for dyeing kimono, sometimes cut with over a hundred holes per square centimetre - admired abroad as art in themselves.

三重県 · Art & museums

Suzuka Traditional Crafts Hall

鈴鹿市北勢

On stencil cutting and inkstick making, with carvers working in front of visitors.

三重県 · Art & museums

Suzuka Inksticks

鈴鹿市北勢

Soot from burnt rapeseed oil kneaded with glue; the fineness of the particles decides the ink's colour and bleed.

三重県 · Art & museums

Banko Ware

四日市市北勢

Eighty percent of Japan's clay pots; the district developed a heat-proof body, and its unglazed teapots fire purple-brown.

三重県 · Art & museums

Banko no Sato Hall

四日市市北勢

The Banko district's own hall, showing mould forming and the cutting of a teapot's built-in strainer.

三重県 · Art & museums

Rokkaen

桑名市北勢

The only Conder house surviving outside the big cities: a turreted Western villa joined directly to a Japanese wing.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kuwana Ironware

桑名市北勢

Casting since the Edo period, from cooking pots to - today - a large share of Japan's manhole covers.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kuwana Senbazuru

桑名市北勢

Multiple cranes folded from one sheet, still joined; a 1797 book records 49 different configurations.

三重県 · Art & museums

Paramita Museum

菰野町北勢

Permanently shows Masuo Ikeda's late ceramic Heart Sutra series, in a sculpture garden facing the Suzuka range.

三重県 · Art & museums

Seki-juku

亀山市中勢

No other Tokaido post town keeps this much of its Edo streetscape - 1.8 kilometres, with cables buried and signs controlled.

三重県 · Art & museums

Matsusaka Merchant House

松阪市中勢

A cotton merchant's home town house: plain to the street, lavish within - the merchant code in built form.

三重県 · Art & museums

Motoori Norinaga Memorial Museum

松阪市中勢

The scholar who spent 35 years deciphering the Kojiki; his manuscripts survive, and the study he hung with bells.

三重県 · Art & museums

Matsuura Takeshiro Memorial Museum

松阪市中勢

The man who walked Ezo six times and proposed the name Hokkaido; he built a one-mat study from old timbers gathered nationwide.

三重県 · Art & museums

Matsusaka Cotton

松阪市中勢

Striped cotton that swept Edo: sober enough to slip past sumptuary law, but luxurious in the quality of its thread.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ware

伊賀市伊賀

Fired so hot the pots crack - and the cracks are prized; the kiln where Momoyama tea masters found beauty in damage.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Braided Cords

伊賀市伊賀

Silk threads crossed on a wooden stand; the craft moved from sword cords to kimono sashes and survived.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ninja Museum

伊賀市伊賀

A relocated farmhouse full of mechanisms - revolving walls and floor caches - shown as carpentry, not legend.