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愛知県 · Art & museums

Bishu Wool Textiles

一宮市尾張

Most of Japan's woollen cloth is woven here; the district supplies luxury suiting worldwide alongside Italy.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Fujii Tatsukichi Museum of Modern Art

碧南市西三河

For an artist who moved freely between craft and painting; small, but nationally respected for its exhibitions.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Takahama Kawara Museum

高浜市西三河

Japan's only museum of roof tiles, re-presenting an industrial product as form.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tahara City Museum

田原市東三河

The largest holding of Watanabe Kazan, the samurai painter who brought Western shading into Japanese portraiture.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History

豊橋市東三河

In the old castle park, holding work by Nakamura Fusetsu, who was both calligrapher and oil painter.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Handa Red Brick Building

半田市西三河

Among Japan's oldest surviving brewery buildings, its walls built five layers thick to hold temperature.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Kamezaki Festival Floats

半田市西三河

Floats hauled down onto the beach itself, their carvings and embroidered hangings standing on the sand.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Niimi Nankichi Memorial Museum

半田市西三河

A children's writer's museum sunk into the ground with a grass roof, so as not to disturb the fields he wrote about.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Mikawa Buddhist Altars

岡崎市西三河

Built inside like a miniature temple, finished by five separate trades working in sequence.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Hatcho Miso Breweries

岡崎市西三河

Three tonnes of river stones stacked into a cone on each two-metre vat, a two-year process that fills the warehouse.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Noritake Garden

名古屋市尾張

A 1904 porcelain works, keeping its brick buildings and the ornate export ware made in them.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyota Commemorative Museum

名古屋市尾張

In the original loom works, with the machines still running - the path from textiles to cars made visible.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Aichi Triennale

名古屋市尾張

One of Japan's largest international art festivals, running through shopping streets and warehouses alongside a performing arts programme.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Iwase Bunko Library

西尾市西三河

Japan's first private public library; its exhibitions treat bindings and illustrations as objects, not only texts.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Matcha of Nishio

西尾市西三河

Among Japan's leading matcha districts; the black shading covers change the landscape by season, and the stone mills still turn.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Meito Art Museum

長久手市尾張

Narrowed to modern Nihonga and especially bijinga, with a substantial group of works by Uemura Shoen.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Hosa Library

名古屋市尾張

The Owari Tokugawa library intact - a rare case where what a daimyo house actually read survives as a whole.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Sanage Kiln Sites

豊田市西三河

Held to be where glaze was first applied deliberately in Japan - the ash glaze invented here led on to Seto ware.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Korankei and Asuke

豊田市西三河

A post town on the salt road, beside a gorge that monks began planting with maples two centuries ago.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Toyokawa Inari

豊川市東三河

A Buddhist temple enshrining a fox deity; a thousand donated stone foxes stand massed in one corner.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Tokoname Ceramics Institute

常滑市西三河

Museum and research institute together, lining up the great medieval jars made with nothing but clay and fire.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Nagoya TV Tower

名古屋市尾張

Japan's first integrated broadcast tower, standing on the axis of a 100-metre-wide avenue cut after the war.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Shippo Art Village

あま市尾張

In the cloisonne district, where the setting of the silver wires can be watched and tried.

愛知県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Okazaki

岡崎市西三河

Masons summoned to build the castle stayed; the town became Japan's source of stone lanterns and figures.