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岐阜県 · Art & museums

Hida Shunkei Lacquer

高山市飛騨

Clear lacquer that reveals rather than hides the grain, so choosing the wood decides the finished piece.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Carpenters of Hida

高山市飛騨

In the Nara period Hida paid its tax in carpenters sent to the capital; that lineage runs through everything built here.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Setogawa Canal, Hida Furukawa

飛騨市飛騨

A canal of carp running beside white storehouses, the town regulating even the colour of its signs.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Hida City Museum of Art

飛騨市飛騨

A small municipal museum built around glass, with a programme for local makers.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Shirakawa-go Gassho Villages

白川村飛騨

Roofs pitched near 60 degrees against the snow, rethatched by the whole village working together under an old mutual-aid system.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gujo Hachiman

郡上市中濃

Spring water is channelled past every door for washing and firefighting, with strict rules on the order of use.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gujo Indigo Dyeing

郡上市中濃

Dyed in live indigo vats without chemicals, then rinsed in the winter river - a sight the town turns out for.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Food Samples of Gujo

郡上市中濃

Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Moriya Tadashi Art Museum

大垣市西濃

Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro

養老町西濃

A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Iwamura Historic District

恵那市東濃

Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a merchant street running 1.3 kilometres.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Magome-juku

中津川市東濃

A post town paved up a slope, its houses stepped along the hill; the novelist Toson Shimazaki was born here.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gero Gassho Village

下呂市中濃

Gassho houses moved from a valley about to be dammed; visitors can climb into the lofts built for silkworms.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Usuzumi Cherry of Neodani

本巣市岐阜

One of Japan's three great cherries, named for the ink-grey the petals turn as they fall.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Japan Taisho Village

恵那市東濃

A whole town preserving its Taisho-era offices and clinics, keeping one layer of provincial modernity intact.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Ceramic Park MINO

多治見市東濃

Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Furuta Oribe

可児市東濃

A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Mino Washi Museum

美濃市中濃

Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Suimon River, Ogaki

大垣市西濃

Where Basho ended The Narrow Road; a town of springs, its river landing steps and stone lantern still in place.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Sekigahara Battlefield

関ケ原町西濃

Armies were placed around a ring of hills; the relation of terrain to formation can still be walked.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum

各務原市岐阜

Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Kegonji

揖斐川町西濃

The last of the 33 western pilgrimage temples; its straight cedar avenue was built to feel like an arrival.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Hida Butsudan

高山市飛騨

Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.

岐阜県 · Art & museums

Paper Crafts of Mino

美濃市中濃

A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.