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新潟県 · Tourism

Akashi Chirimen

十日町市中越

A summer silk given its crisp hand by tightly twisted thread.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art

長岡市中越

Unusual among prefectural museums for its Western modern holdings, shared with its sister museum in Niigata city.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Bandaijima Art Museum

新潟市下越

On the fifth floor of a tower by the river mouth, sharing one collection with the museum in Nagaoka.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Niigata City Art Museum

新潟市下越

A late work by Kunio Maekawa, its tiled walls kept low along the edge of the park.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Aizu Yaichi Memorial Museum

新潟市下越

For the poet and art historian whose blunt, unadorned calligraphy stands apart in modern Japanese writing.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Northern Culture Museum

新潟市下越

The estate of Echigo's greatest landlord: over a hundred rooms on three hectares, with a hall spanned by single cedar beams.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Former Saito Family Villa

新潟市下越

A merchant's villa built into a dune; the garden came first, and the rooms were placed to look at it.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Niigata City History Museum

新潟市下越

Keeps the only surviving customs house of Japan's five treaty ports, built at the end of the shogunate.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Niigata Prefectural Museum of History

長岡市中越

Systematic on the flame-shaped Jomon pots, and on snow-country life reconstructed at full size.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Tokamachi City Museum

十日町市中越

Fifty-seven flame-shaped Jomon vessels designated National Treasure together - pottery rarely receives that status.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale

十日町市中越

One of the world's largest rural art festivals: 760 square kilometres of farmland, where finding the works means touring the hamlets.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art

十日町市中越

Hiroshi Hara's cloister of galleries around a square pool, the building working as a frame for the art.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Matsudai Nohbutai

十日町市中越

A raised building for looking at rice terraces; Kabakov's figures stand in the real field, overlaying poem on landscape.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel

十日町市中越

An existing tunnel remade as an artwork; a film of water on the floor doubles the gorge in perfect symmetry.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Echigo Jofu Ramie Cloth

南魚沼市中越

Ramie split by fingernail, spun by hand, woven, then bleached on the snow; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Shiozawa Tsumugi

南魚沼市中越

The ramie technique applied to silk, its kasuri dots so small the pattern is named after mosquitoes.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Ojiya Chijimi

小千谷市中越

Hard-twisted weft crinkled by hot water into a summer cloth that never clings; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Nishikigoi Carp

小千谷市中越

Two centuries of selecting colour and pattern in terrace-fed ponds - a design carried out through living animals.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Tsubame Industrial Museum

燕市中越

A metalworking town's archive, following a single copper sheet as hammering turns it into a vessel.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Gyokusendo

燕市中越

Two centuries of raising copper vessels - spout and body from a single sheet, without a join.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Sanjo Blacksmith Dojo

三条市中越

A blade town that began by forging nails for Edo; its forge is open, the fire worked in front of visitors.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Kamo Paulownia Chests

加茂市下越

A major share of Japan's paulownia chests; the wood swells with humidity, sealing the drawers by itself.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Murakami Carved Lacquer

村上市下越

Carved wood layered with a dozen coats of lacquer and matted down; use wears the surface until the red shows through.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Townhouses of Murakami

村上市下越

A castle-town street of living merchant houses; each spring the families set out their inherited dolls, turning homes into galleries.