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長野県 · Art & museums

Hokusaikan

小布施町北信

Hokusai came here four times in his eighties; the waves he painted on a festival float ceiling are shown still in the float.

長野県 · Art & museums

Ganshoin

小布施町北信

Hokusai painted this 21-mat ceiling at 89; the phoenix is said to meet your eye from anywhere in the hall.

長野県 · Art & museums

Obuse Museum, Nakajima Chinami Gallery

小布施町北信

A contemporary Nihonga painter shown alongside the town's festival floats, carved in Hokusai's own era.

長野県 · Art & museums

Obuse Townscape Project

小布施町北信

Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.

長野県 · Art & museums

Sezon Museum of Modern Art

軽井沢町東信

Postwar Western and Japanese art collected in parallel, in galleries merged into a garden below Mt Asama.

長野県 · Art & museums

Karuizawa New Art Museum

軽井沢町東信

A glass box in the middle of the resort, programming only Japanese art made after 1945.

長野県 · Art & museums

Stone Church, Uchimura Kanzo Memorial

軽井沢町東信

Alternating arches of stone and glass drop bands of light and dark - organic architecture in the Wright lineage.

長野県 · Art & museums

Former Mikasa Hotel

軽井沢町東信

A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.

長野県 · Art & museums

Tsumago-juku

南木曽町中信

The first town in Japan to organise its own preservation, under three rules its residents set: do not sell, lend, or destroy.

長野県 · Art & museums

Narai-juku

塩尻市中信

The longest post town on the Nakasendo: a kilometre of houses with jettied upper floors, lined with lacquer shops.

長野県 · Art & museums

Kiso Lacquerware

塩尻市中信

Iron-rich local earth in the ground coat makes it exceptionally tough; it grew as souvenirs for travellers on the highway.

長野県 · Art & museums

Nagiso Woodturning

南木曽町中信

Kiso hardwoods turned on the lathe and often left unlacquered, so choosing the timber is the real skill.

長野県 · Art & museums

Obasute Rice Terraces

千曲市北信

The moon reflected in each separate paddy - a subject for painters since the Edo period.

長野県 · Art & museums

Suzaka Classic Museum

須坂市北信

In a Meiji silk merchant's house, hanging Nihonga in the same rooms as its collection of old kimono.

長野県 · Art & museums

Storehouse Town of Suzaka

須坂市北信

Storehouses built on silk money, now kept alive by conversion into shops and galleries.

長野県 · Art & museums

Nakano Clay Dolls

中野市北信

Two families keep two separate moulds and palettes in the same town - an unusual survival of parallel lineages.

長野県 · Art & museums

Stone Carvers of Takato

伊那市南信

Takato's masons travelled the country carving; one of them, Sadaji Moriya, recorded 336 images in his lifetime.

長野県 · Art & museums

Takato Castle Site

伊那市南信

Fifteen hundred trees of a cherry unique to this place, flowering along the line of the old earthworks.

長野県 · Art & museums

Matsushiro Samurai Town

長野市北信

The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.

長野県 · Art & museums

Togakushi Bamboo Craft

長野市北信

Baskets woven from bamboo bent by snow, made at the gate of a mountain of ascetics for the pilgrims who came.

長野県 · Art & museums

Shinshu Shinmachi Museum of Art

長野市北信

A small municipal museum in the hills, centred on the painter Ikuma Arishima.

長野県 · Art & museums

Onbashira Festival

諏訪市南信

Every seven years sixteen fir trunks are hauled from the mountain, ridden down a slope and stood at the shrine corners.

長野県 · Art & museums

Kamikochi

松本市中信

Introduced to the world by the Englishman Weston, and returned to by painters ever since - the source of Japanese mountain painting.

長野県 · Art & museums

Wasabi Fields of Azumino

安曇野市中信

Fields fed by Alpine groundwater, their stone channels and water wheels making a landscape out of farm equipment.