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宮城県 · Art & museums

Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum

仙台市仙台

Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kamei Museum

仙台市仙台

Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Osaki Hachimangu

仙台市仙台

Built by Date Masamune in 1607, the oldest surviving gongen-zukuri shrine, in black lacquer and gold.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Zuihoden

仙台市仙台

Date Masamune's mausoleum, rebuilt in full Momoyama polychromy after wartime fire.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Miyagi Prefectural Library

仙台市仙台

By Hiroshi Hara, architect of the Umeda Sky Building; a vast hull seeming to float on the hill.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Jotei no Mori Museum

仙台市仙台

A 20,000-year-old forest floor and campfire preserved underground exactly as excavated.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Jomon Forest Park

仙台市仙台

Built on a middle Jomon settlement, where visitors can try potting and fire-making.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Akiu Craft Village

仙台市仙台

Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tamamushi Lacquer

仙台市仙台

Colour lacquer over silver powder, shifting like a jewel beetle's wing; developed for export in the 1930s.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Chest

仙台市仙台

Zelkova grain glowing through lacquer, dressed in hand-forged iron mounts; its size came from storing swords.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sculptures on Jozenji Street

仙台市仙台

Three bronzes by Italian sculptors stand in the median of a zelkova-lined boulevard.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Daikannon

仙台市仙台

A 100-metre white Kannon; visitors climb inside past 108 Buddhist figures.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Zuiganji

松島町三陸沿岸

A Zen temple Date Masamune took five years to build, its rooms painted in gold by the Kano school.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Entsuin

松島町三陸沿岸

Its shrine doors are carved with roses and daffodils - Western motifs that slipped in under national seclusion.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Godaido

松島町三陸沿岸

A small hall on an islet, its eaves carved with the twelve zodiac animals facing their compass points.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kanrantei

松島町三陸沿岸

A tea room said to have been given by Hideyoshi, opened solely toward the view of Matsushima Bay.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Shiogama Shrine Museum

塩竈市三陸沿岸

Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Mutsu province, with the tools of its salt-making rites.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tohoku History Museum

多賀城市三陸沿岸

Beside the ancient government seat of Taga Castle, with an Edo-period thatched farmhouse in its grounds.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Taga Castle Ruins

多賀城市三陸沿岸

The ancient seat of government in the north, keeping one of Japan's three oldest inscribed stones.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Ishinomori Manga Museum

石巻市三陸沿岸

A saucer-shaped museum on a river islet for the creator of Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider, reopened after the tsunami.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Ishinomaki City Museum

石巻市三陸沿岸

Built around a local industrialist's antiquities collection, reassembled after the tsunami.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sant Juan Bautista Museum

石巻市三陸沿岸

A full-scale replica of the galleon that carried Hasekura Tsunenaga to Rome.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Ogatsu Inkstone

石巻市三陸沿岸

Black slate inkstones made here for six centuries, once the source of most inkstones in Japan.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Rias Ark Museum of Art

気仙沼市県北

Curators' own photographs and salvaged objects from the 2011 disaster, shown as a permanent exhibition.