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山形県 · Art & museums

Former Saiseikan Hospital

山形市村山

A pseudo-Western hospital of stacked octagonal and hexadecagonal towers, built by local carpenters from prints.

山形県 · Art & museums

Mogami Yoshiaki Museum

山形市村山

The helmet and records of Mogami Yoshiaki, showing the flamboyance of Momoyama armour.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamadera Risshakuji

山形市村山

Halls wedged into a rock mountain up 1,015 stone steps, where Basho wrote his most famous haiku.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum

山形市村山

Manuscripts from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, shown as calligraphy.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamadera Goto Museum

山形市村山

A private collection of 19th-century European painting, strong in the Barbizon school.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Biennale

山形市村山

A biennial run by the local art university, taking over empty shops and temples.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

山形市村山

Asia's leading documentary festival, begun through the filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa's years filming Yamagata farmers.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Ironware

山形市村山

Cast iron of unusually thin, smooth skin; nine centuries of tea-ceremony kettles.

山形県 · Art & museums

Hirashimizu Ware

山形市村山

Iron in the local clay speckles the celadon like a pear's skin - the earth itself becomes the pattern.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tendo City Art Museum

天童市村山

Built on Hiroshige prints, from the time the Tendo domain paid its debts in his paintings.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tendo Shogi Pieces

天童市村山

Nine in ten of Japan's shogi pieces are made here; writing the characters is calligraphy in miniature.

山形県 · Art & museums

Dewazakura Art Museum

天童市村山

Joseon ceramics collected by a sake brewer, chosen with the eye of the mingei movement.

山形県 · Art & museums

Kaisendo

上山市村山

One of Japan's finest holdings of Chinese carved lacquer, gathered by a single industrialist.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yonezawa Uesugi Museum

米沢市置賜

Kano Eitoku's screen of Kyoto, said to be Nobunaga's gift to Uesugi Kenshin, holding 2,500 painted figures.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yonezawa Textiles

米沢市置賜

Begun as a domain-rescue industry by Uesugi Yozan; silk dyed with safflower and gromwell, still yarn-dyed.

山形県 · Art & museums

Narushima Ware

米沢市置賜

A former Uesugi domain kiln, revived after extinction; known for deep iron-black glazes.

山形県 · Art & museums

Chido Museum

鶴岡市庄内

Pseudo-Western offices, a thatched farmhouse and samurai armour gathered on one site.

山形県 · Art & museums

Heishindo

鶴岡市庄内

A merchant house whose shingle roof is held down by forty thousand stones.

山形県 · Art & museums

Fujisawa Shuhei Memorial Museum

鶴岡市庄内

Manuscripts of the novelist whose samurai stories were all set in this plain.

山形県 · Art & museums

Haguro Five-Storey Pagoda

鶴岡市庄内

An unpainted five-storey pagoda standing among 400-year-old cedars; the oldest in Tohoku.

山形県 · Art & museums

Dewa Sanzan Shrine

鶴岡市庄内

A thatched roof over two metres thick, sheltering the gods of all three sacred mountains at once.

山形県 · Art & museums

Churenji and the Living Buddha

鶴岡市庄内

The mummified body of a monk who fasted himself to death; six such figures survive in this plain alone.

山形県 · Art & museums

Ken Domon Museum of Photography

酒田市庄内

Japan's first museum for a single photographer, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi and architecture by Yoshio Taniguchi.

山形県 · Art & museums

Homma Museum of Art

酒田市庄内

The villa of the Homma family, once Japan's greatest landowners, its garden borrowing Mt Chokai.