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石川県 · Art & museums

Miyamoto Saburo Museum of Art

小松市加賀

One painter's swing from wartime documentary painting to lush postwar nudes, shown in his home town.

石川県 · Art & museums

Komatsu City Museum

小松市加賀

At the centre of the Kutani district, on the twin industries of stone quarrying and pottery.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nanao Art Museum

七尾市能登

In the birthplace of Hasegawa Tohaku, painter of the Pine Trees screens, and holding an annual exhibition of his work.

石川県 · Art & museums

Ipponsugi Street, Nanao

七尾市能登

The merchant street of old Noto, its townhouses still trading, each shopfront designed differently.

石川県 · Art & museums

Wajima Lacquerware

輪島市能登

Powdered diatomaceous earth in the ground coat and 124 divided steps make it the toughest lacquer in Japan.

石川県 · Art & museums

Wajima Museum of Urushi Art

輪島市能登

Said to be the world's only museum devoted solely to lacquer, comparing Japanese work with Chinese and Southeast Asian.

石川県 · Art & museums

Shiroyone Senmaida

輪島市能登

A thousand and four paddies stacked down to the sea, each too small for a machine and still worked by hand.

石川県 · Art & museums

Sojiji Soin

輪島市能登

Once the head temple of Soto Zen; rebuilt after fire and earthquake, its cloisters still bind the halls together.

石川県 · Art & museums

Suzu Ware

珠洲市能登

Medieval grey-black stoneware shipped as far as Hokkaido, extinct for 500 years and revived in 1976.

石川県 · Art & museums

Oku-Noto Triennale

珠洲市能登

Held at the tip of a peninsula, using depopulated hamlets as its venue and their residents as its guides.

石川県 · Art & museums

Agehama Salt Making

珠洲市能登

Japan's last agehama salt fields, where seawater is carried by bucket and scattered over sand by hand.

石川県 · Art & museums

Keta Taisha

羽咋市能登

Behind the halls lies a primeval wood no one may enter - preserved precisely by being left alone.

石川県 · Art & museums

Shiramine District

白山市加賀

Three-storey farmhouses in a deep-snow village, their height built for silkworm rearing.

石川県 · Art & museums

Shirayama Hime Shrine Treasury

白山市加賀

Head shrine of 3,000 Hakusan shrines, keeping Heian-period guardian lions among its offerings.

石川県 · Art & museums

Nishida Kitaro Museum of Philosophy

かほく市金沢

Tadao Ando cut a long stair up the hill so that the climb itself stands for the act of thinking.

石川県 · Art & museums

Yamashiro Kosoyu

加賀市加賀

A Meiji bathhouse rebuilt from its original drawings, tiled in Kutani ware and glazed with stained glass.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop

金沢市金沢

The city takes in young craftspeople for three years; their workshops are open, so the daily work is visible.

石川県 · Art & museums

Teahouse Architecture of Kanazawa

金沢市金沢

Guest rooms painted in ultramarine and red ochre - colour permitted only in the pleasure quarters of a samurai town.

石川県 · Art & museums

Notojima Glass Art Museum

七尾市能登

Stacked geometric volumes laid out by feng shui, standing on an island hill.

石川県 · Art & museums

Wakura Onsen

七尾市能登

A seaside spa whose inns use Wajima lacquer and Kaga yuzen indoors, putting the region's crafts inside the architecture.

石川県 · Art & museums

Magaki Fences of Noto

輪島市能登

Five-metre bamboo fences packed solid against the winter wind - a wall produced purely by function.

石川県 · Art & museums

Teramachi Temple District

金沢市金沢

Temples massed at the edge of the castle town for defence - seventy of them, wall after wall, gate after gate.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Hachiman Tumbler Doll

金沢市金沢

A tumbler doll shaped as a swaddled infant, painted red to ward off smallpox.

石川県 · Art & museums

Kaga Mizuhiki

金沢市金沢

Kanazawa turned flat paper cords into three-dimensional cranes and pines - the wrapping itself becoming the object.