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山梨県 · Art & museums

Kiyoharu Art Colony

北杜市国中

On a closed school site, architects each built one work - from a circular block copying a Paris artists' hive to a tea room in a tree.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Itchiku Kubota Art Museum

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

A dyer who reinvented the lost Muromachi tsujigahana technique; his kimono are hung in rows that form one continuous landscape.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yo Yuki Museum

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kawaguchiko Museum of Art

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Collecting one mountain only; photographers who spent lifetimes on Fuji can be compared side by side.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Mt Fuji World Heritage Center

富士河口湖町郡内（富士北麓）

Shigeru Ban hung a paper-covered inverted cone over water, so its reflection becomes the mountain.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Koshu Inden Deerskin

甲府市国中

Lacquer patterned onto deerskin, and a smoke-dyeing method kept as oral secret for four centuries.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Koshu Crystal Carving

甲府市国中

Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yamanashi Jewelry Museum

甲府市国中

A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Fujimura Memorial Hall

甲府市国中

An 1875 pseudo-Western schoolhouse with balcony and drum tower - local carpenters' reading of Western form.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kai Zenkoji

甲府市国中

Built by Takeda Shingen to house a relocated icon; clap beneath its ceiling and the sound spirals back.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Daizenji

甲州市国中

The province's only National Treasure building; its Buddha holds a bunch of grapes, tied to the origin legend of local viticulture.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Seihakuji

山梨市国中

A small Zen hall designated National Treasure, its curved roof and packed bracketing showing the Chinese style fully absorbed.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Erinji

甲州市国中

A garden by the monk Muso Soseki, borrowing the mountain behind so it reads as a single painting from the room.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kuonji

身延町峡南

A straight flight of 287 steps leads to the halls - the act of climbing built into the plan.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Shakado Museum of Jomon Culture

笛吹市国中

One site yielded 1,116 clay figures, nearly all deliberately broken - breaking them appears to have been the ritual.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yamanashi Archaeological Museum

甲府市国中

Run together with the keyhole tomb beside it, and strong in the over-ornamented pottery of the middle Jomon.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Nirasaki Omura Art Museum

韮崎市国中

Founded by a Nobel laureate with his own funds, and collecting women artists exclusively - rare in Japan.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kanzo Yashiki

甲州市国中

A house that supplied liquorice to the shogunate, its roof raised in three tiers for silkworm rearing.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Shosenkyo Gorge

甲府市国中

Granite towers left by weathering; the same valley yielded the crystal that founded the local carving trade.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Saruhashi Bridge

大月市郡内（富士北麓）

No piers: timbers cantilever out from both banks in stages - a method invented because the gorge was too deep to stand in.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine

富士吉田市郡内（富士北麓）

The start of the Yoshida climbing route, its painted Momoyama sanctuary standing at the end of a giant cedar avenue.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Oshi Pilgrim Lodgings

富士吉田市郡内（富士北麓）

Lodgings for Fuji pilgrims: long narrow plots running back from the road, with a channel drawn in for purification.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Nishijima Washi

身延町峡南

Paper for calligraphy, made since the 1500s and still varied sheet by sheet to control how ink bleeds.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Paper and Fireworks of Ichikawa

市川三郷町峡南

A paper town that also makes fireworks - the shells are wound from paper, so the two trades grew together.