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静岡県 · Art & museums

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

静岡市中部

Collecting landscape painting East and West, with a Rodin wing of 32 works including the Gates of Hell.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shizuoka City Museum of Art

静岡市中部

No collection of its own; a gallery set inside a station-front commercial building, in the middle of the commute.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Serizawa Keisuke Art Museum

静岡市中部

For the Living National Treasure of stencil dyeing, in a stone building that ranks among Seiichi Shirai's best.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Toro Site

静岡市中部

A Yayoi paddy village found during the war - the first time Japanese archaeology took a whole settlement as its object.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kunozan Toshogu

静岡市中部

Ieyasu was first buried here, six years before Nikko; this is the prototype of the gongen style, atop 1,159 steps.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shizuoka Sengen Shrine

静岡市中部

Sixty years in the building; twenty-six of its halls are Important Cultural Properties, a rare concentration of late Edo polychromy.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Suruga Bamboo Basketry

静岡市中部

Bamboo shaved into round rods and slotted together - other regions use flat splints, so its curves are unique.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Suruga Lacquerware

静岡市中部

Begun when Ieyasu gathered craftsmen at his retirement capital, and carried from vessels into furniture.

静岡県 · Art & museums

MOA Museum of Art

熱海市伊豆

Three National Treasures, in galleries remade by Hiroshi Sugimoto in black plaster to rebuild the light for the objects.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kiunkaku

熱海市伊豆

A magnate's villa turned inn, where Japanese rooms run straight into Art Deco parlours and a stained-glass bath.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Sawada Seiko Memorial Museum

熱海市伊豆

A wood sculptor from Atami who carved Buddhist images by the methods of modern sculpture.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art

伊東市伊豆

Collects 20th-century art on one theme alone - the human figure; Japan's first museum devoted to that century.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Tokaikan

伊東市伊豆

Each floor was built by a different master carpenter competing with the others, so no two transoms are alike.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Uehara Museum of Art

下田市伊豆

A Buddhist wing and a modern wing, built on decades of surveying the Buddhist sculpture of the peninsula.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Namako Walls of Shimoda

下田市伊豆

Flat tiles fixed to the wall with plaster ridged over the joints - fireproofing that became a black-and-white grid.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Izu Chohachi Art Museum

松崎町伊豆

For Chohachi Irie, who modelled pictures in plaster with a trowel; plasterers came from all Japan to build the museum itself.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Namako Walls of Matsuzaki

松崎町伊豆

Nearly two hundred namako-walled buildings, the plasterers' art left where it belongs - on ordinary houses.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Sano Art Museum

三島市伊豆

A private museum of Japanese swords, its lighting designed specifically to reveal the grain and temper line of a blade.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Mishima Taisha Treasure Hall

三島市伊豆

A Kamakura-period lacquer box, National Treasure: plum branches in gold powder with shell inlay, a summit of medieval craft.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Bernard Buffet Museum

長泉町東部

Built for a living painter; the world's largest holding of Bernard Buffet, in a building by Kiyonori Kikutake.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Mt Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka

富士宮市東部

An inverted cone of cypress lattice whose reflection forms the mountain; the spiral inside stands in for the climb.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha

富士宮市東部

A two-storey sanctuary in a form found nowhere else, beside the spring where the pilgrim route to the summit begins.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Shiseido Art House

掛川市西部

A corporate collection shown free to the public, in an early Yoshio Taniguchi building that won the architectural institute's prize.

静岡県 · Art & museums

Kakegawa Castle

掛川市西部

The first castle keep rebuilt in real timber after the war, beside one of only seven surviving castle palaces.