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富山県 · Art & museums

Iwase District and Mori House

富山市呉東

A Kitamae shipping port whose main street still holds its merchant houses, the Mori residence among them.

富山県 · Art & museums

Owara Kaze no Bon

富山市呉東

Dancers hide their faces under deep sedge hats and move through a hillside town all night - dance and streets inseparable.

富山県 · Art & museums

Etchu Washi

富山市呉東

Three papermaking districts designated together; at Yatsuo the paper itself is stencil-dyed.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Art Museum

高岡市呉西

Collecting around metalwork, as befits a casting town - and working the border between craft and sculpture.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Bronze Casting

高岡市呉西

Ninety percent of Japan's bronzeware; begun when the Kaga domain summoned seven casters, now casting contemporary design.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Lacquerware

高岡市呉西

Known for aogai - shell shaved paper-thin and inlaid, shifting through the spectrum as the light moves.

富山県 · Art & museums

Zuiryuji

高岡市呉西

Gate, Buddha hall and lecture hall stand on one axis - and all three are National Treasures, a combination unique in Japan.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shokoji

高岡市呉西

Once the stronghold of the Etchu Ikko uprising; twenty-three buildings survive, two of them National Treasures since 2022.

富山県 · Art & museums

Kanayamachi District

高岡市呉西

The casters' quarter, its lattice fronts unbroken and its pavements inlaid with the town's own bronze.

富山県 · Art & museums

Yamachosuji District

高岡市呉西

Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, its black plaster fronts hung with cast bronze signs.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Mikurumayama Festival

高岡市呉西

Floats that gather the town's metalwork, lacquer and textiles into single objects; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

富山県 · Art & museums

Etchu Fukuoka Sedge Hats

高岡市呉西

Most of Japan's sedge hats are made here, from growing the sedge to the final stitch.

富山県 · Art & museums

Inami Woodcarving

南砺市呉西

Taught by Kyoto carvers who came to rebuild the temple; the street is still lined with workshops using 200 kinds of chisel.

富山県 · Art & museums

Zuisenji

南砺市呉西

The temple that gave birth to Inami carving; local carvers have worked on its gate for generations.

富山県 · Art & museums

Gokayama Gassho Villages

南砺市呉西

Thatched roofs pitched at 60 degrees to shed snow, framed without nails and tied with rope; a World Heritage village.

富山県 · Art & museums

Johana Float Festival

南砺市呉西

Lacquered and carved floats followed by small music pavilions; UNESCO Intangible Heritage.

富山県 · Art & museums

Aizen-en, Munakata Shiko's House

南砺市呉西

Munakata lived here for nearly seven years and painted directly onto the walls - even the lavatory - making the house itself the work.

富山県 · Art & museums

Scattered Farmsteads of Tonami

砺波市呉西

Farmhouses stand singly in the fields, each ringed by its own windbreak - a whole plain stippled in green.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shogawa Turned Woodwork

砺波市呉西

Turning begun with timber floated down the river; the blanks it makes go to lacquer towns across Japan.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shimoyama Art Forest Power Plant Museum

入善町呉東

A 1926 hydroelectric plant turned gallery, keeping its penstocks and turbine beds; artists make work for that space.

富山県 · Art & museums

Selene Art Museum

黒部市呉東

Seven contemporary Nihonga painters were commissioned to paint one gorge; the results hang here permanently.

富山県 · Art & museums

Oiwasan Nissekiji

上市町呉東

The main image is carved straight into a boulder; the hall was built around the rock, so image and terrain are one.

富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Prefectural Tateyama Museum

立山町呉東

Holds Tateyama mandalas - paintings that mapped the mountain as heaven and hell, produced in numbers for pilgrims.

富山県 · Art & museums

Nunobashi Kanjoe

立山町呉東

Women barred from the sacred peak crossed a bridge laid with white cloth instead; the revived procession is itself a form.