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栃木県 · Art & museums

Oya Stone Buildings

宇都宮市県央

The soft stone Frank Lloyd Wright used for the Imperial Hotel; Utsunomiya is built of it.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Tochigi Prefectural Museum

宇都宮市県央

A general museum juxtaposing the two cultural spheres of the province, Nikko and Ashikaga.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nikko Toshogu

日光市県北

Over 5,000 carvings smother these halls in gold and colour - the summit of Japanese decorative architecture.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Rinnoji Taiyuin

日光市県北

Iemitsu's mausoleum answers Toshogu's brilliance with restraint - black and gold, and 315 lanterns on the slope.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nikko Futarasan Shrine

日光市県北

The heart of Nikko's mountain worship, keeping a National Treasure sword in its treasury.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Kosugi Hoan Museum of Art

日光市県北

A Nikko-born painter who began in oils and crossed into Nihonga, working both to the end.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nikko Kanaya Hotel

日光市県北

Japan's oldest surviving resort hotel, its interiors carved in the local Nikko-bori style.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Tamozawa Imperial Villa

日光市県北

An Edo merchant house, a Meiji villa and a Taisho wing joined into one 106-room building.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Former Italian Embassy Villa

日光市県北

Antonin Raymond clad this lakeside villa in cedar bark laid in a checkerboard - geometry from raw material.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Former British Embassy Villa

日光市県北

Built by the diplomat Ernest Satow, the villa that made Nikko an international summer resort.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nikko Woodcarving

日光市県北

Begun by the craftsmen who built Toshogu, using a hooked blade that draws curves by dragging.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Bake-jizo of Kanmangafuchi

日光市県北

Some seventy mossy stone Jizo along a gorge, said never to give the same count twice.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Mashiko Sankokan Museum

益子町県東

Shoji Hamada built it to show the objects he learned from - other people's work, not his own, takes the lead.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art

益子町県東

Holds the potters at the centre of the mingei movement, with Hamada's relocated house in the grounds.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Mashiko Ware

益子町県東

Heavy everyday ware that became the face of mingei once Shoji Hamada settled here; nearly 400 kilns remain.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Ashikaga School

足利市県南

Called Japan's oldest school, keeping National Treasure Chinese classics and a Confucian hall.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Banna-ji

足利市県南

A temple inside a moated samurai compound; its hall, in early Zen style, is a National Treasure.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Kurita Museum

足利市県南

The world's largest museum devoted solely to Imari and Nabeshima porcelain, spread over a wooded hill.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Ashikaga Museum of Art

足利市県南

Built around the local painter Riichiro Kawashima, and known for the sharpness of its temporary shows.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Tochigi Storehouse Town

栃木市県南

A river-trade town of white-walled storehouses, nicknamed 'little Edo'.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Tochigi Kura Museum

栃木市県南

Three 200-year-old earthen storehouses turned into galleries, exhibiting under their original beams.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Okada Memorial Museum

栃木市県南

The estate of a family of village heads for 550 years, its sukiya-style annex exceptional in materials.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Kanuma Kumiko Woodwork

鹿沼市県央

Geometric lattices assembled without a single nail, a trade descended from the Toshogu craftsmen.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Kanuma Float Festival

鹿沼市県央

Floats carved in bare wood with no paint - the depth of the cut is the whole display.