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京都府 · Art & museums

Sen-oku Hakukokan

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Shang and Zhou bronzes of a quality rarely found outside China, displayed close enough to read the casting.

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Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art

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A narrow Gion building used vertically, with a light court on the top floor as the only place the sky appears.

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Raku Museum

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Four and a half centuries in one family line, from the bowls Chojiro made for Rikyu - all formed by hand, never on a wheel.

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Kitamura Museum

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Tea utensils rearranged to the season's gathering, beside a modern sukiya house of the first rank.

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Nomura Art Museum

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A financier tea master's collection, holding the equipment of both tea and Noh in one place.

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Yurinkan Museum

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Japan's first private museum of Chinese art, under an octagonal pavilion roof by Goichi Takeda.

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Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum

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Meiji export craft only: metalwork so fine that every leg and wing of an insect is separately made.

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Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design

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Seventy-four Kyoto crafts under one roof, laid out by process to show the city's division of labour itself.

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Kawai Kanjiro's House

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The potter designed his own house; wheel, kiln and furniture remain exactly as they were, work and life undivided.

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Nishijin Textiles

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Named for the camp of a 15th-century war where the weavers regrouped; still built on small runs and divided labour.

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Kyo Yuzen Dyeing

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Paste is drawn along every outline to keep the colours apart, leaving the fine white line that identifies the technique.

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Kyo Ware and Kiyomizu Ware

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Not tied to local clay: materials were brought in from everywhere to meet each commission, which is why the styles multiplied.

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Karakami Woodblock Paper

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Mica pressed from woodblocks onto paper by hand, so the pattern appears and vanishes as the light moves.

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Nijo Castle Ninomaru Palace

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Subject matter and ceiling height change with each room's rank, and every painting is composed for the shogun's own seat.

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Toji

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Kukai arranged 21 sculptures into a mandala you can walk around; its pagoda is the tallest in Japan.

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Sanjusangendo

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A 120-metre hall holding 1,001 life-size Kannon; 124 survive from the 1100s, and no two faces are the same.

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Koryuji

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Holds the image registered as National Treasure number one - a seventh-century Maitreya cut from a single pine.

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Rokuharamitsuji

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Six tiny Amida figures issue from the monk's mouth - the act of chanting itself rendered as sculpture.

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Kosanji

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Keeps the Choju-jinbutsu-giga scrolls - animals behaving as people, drawn in line alone, often called Japan's first manga.

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Jingoji

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Its early Heian Yakushi, severe and heavy, marks the start of esoteric Buddhist sculpture in Japan.

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Ginkakuji

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Its four-and-a-half-mat study is the prototype of the shoin room - where the Japanese house plan begins.

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Kinkakuji

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Each of its three floors is built in a different architectural style - three eras stacked vertically in one building.

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Ryoanji Rock Garden

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Fifteen stones on 75 square metres of gravel, placed so that from any viewpoint one is always hidden.

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Daitokuji Sub-temples

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Twenty-two sub-temples bound up with the tea ceremony; several of its National Treasure rooms are still closed to the public.