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岡山県 · Art & museums

Kurashiki Archaeological Museum

倉敷市備中

In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Japan Rural Toy Museum

倉敷市備中

Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Ohashi Residence

倉敷市備中

A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Former Nozaki Residence

倉敷市備中

The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Kojima Denim

倉敷市備中

A tabi and school-uniform town that made Japan's first jeans; its old shuttle looms now supply the world.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Kurashiki Canvas

倉敷市備中

Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art

岡山市備前

Built around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Hayashibara Museum of Art

岡山市備前

Built on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Okayama Orient Museum

岡山市備前

One of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Yumeji Art Museum

岡山市備前

In Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Korakuen

岡山市備前

One of Japan's three great gardens, and unusual for laying out broad lawn rather than gravel, with a hill to look down from.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Okayama Castle

岡山市備前

Clad in black-lacquered boards and nicknamed the crow castle, on an irregular pentagonal base.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Kibitsu Shrine

岡山市備前

Two hipped-gable roofs joined side by side in a form found in only this one building, with a 360-metre corridor down the hill.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Inujima Seirensho Art Museum

岡山市備前

A ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Inujima Art House Project

岡山市備前

On an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bizen Ware

備前市備前

The oldest of the six ancient kilns: no glaze, no painting - only what ash, flame and straw leave on the clay.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bizen Ware Museum

備前市備前

Bizen ware alone, from medieval storage jars to living masters - the full range of what fire alone can do.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Shizutani School

備前市備前

Among the world's oldest schools built for commoners, roofed in Bizen tile and ringed by 765 metres of rounded stone wall.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bizen Osafune Sword Museum

瀬戸内市備前

In the greatest of Japan's five sword provinces, with working smiths, polishers and hilt-binders on site.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Ushimado

瀬戸内市備前

A port where the Korean embassies put in; its merchant houses remain, and so does a dance they left behind.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Nagi Museum Of Contemporary Art

奈義町美作

The artworks were chosen first and the building designed around them - including a cylinder with Ryoanji's rock garden on its inner wall.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Joto District, Tsuyama

津山市美作

A merchants' quarter along the old Izumo highway, 1.2 kilometres of Edo and Meiji townhouses.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Tsuyama Museum of Western Learning

津山市美作

This domain produced a line of Dutch-studies scholars who coined the Japanese words for oxygen and cell.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Sakushu Kasuri

津山市美作

Kasuri farmers once wove for themselves; the craft died out and has been brought back.