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新潟県 · Art & museums

Shimizuen

新発田市下越

A domain villa whose Kyoto-trained gardener kept the pond low, so it reads correctly from a seated eye.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Fukiya Koji Memorial Museum

新発田市下越

For an illustrator whose lyrical girls filled Taisho magazines, in a white building by Shozo Uchii.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Ryokan Memorial Museum

出雲崎町中越

The calligraphy of a begging monk whose deliberately artless line reshaped modern Japanese writing.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Kimura Tea Ceremony Museum

柏崎市中越

Visitors drink from the collection's own bowls - a museum that hands over its objects rather than glazing them in.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Kobayashi Kokei Memorial Museum of Art

上越市上越

For a Nihonga painter who reduced everything to line; his house and studio by Isoya Yoshida stand restored beside it.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Gangi Arcades of Takada

上越市上越

Householders gave up their own frontage to roof a continuous walkway - 16 kilometres of it, the longest in Japan.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Sado Gold Mine

佐渡市佐渡

A mountain split in two by hand; the mine that backed Edo's gold currency, now a World Heritage industrial landscape.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Mumyoi Ware

佐渡市佐渡

Made from iron-rich earth taken from the gold mine, fired so hard the pots ring like metal.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Noh Stages of Sado

佐渡市佐渡

Over thirty Noh stages survive on this island - a third of all those left in Japan, one to a village.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Sado Museum

佐渡市佐渡

An island museum where exile brought court culture; its Noh masks and Buddhist images still show it.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Aikawa Craft Museum

佐渡市佐渡

Keeps Sado's pottery and its rag weaving - both born from using up what the island had.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Yahiko Shrine Treasure Hall

弥彦村中越

Swords dedicated to the first shrine of Echigo, including a two-metre blade forged not to fight but to be given.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Shirone Giant Kite Battle

新潟市下越

Kites the size of 24 tatami mats, painted with warriors each year, flown across a river to tangle and tear.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Niigata Lacquerware

新潟市下越

Specialising in trick finishes - lacquer made to look exactly like bamboo, or stone, over a wooden body.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Nuttari Terrace

新潟市下越

A dying market terrace taken over shop by shop by makers - regeneration without a public plan.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Water and Land Niigata Art Festival

新潟市下越

A festival themed on land reclaimed from marsh, asking through art how water and soil made this place.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Nagaoka Fireworks

長岡市中越

Begun as recovery from wartime bombing; its largest shells open 650 metres across over the river.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Flame-Shaped Pottery

長岡市中越

Made only along this one river: cooking pots whose rims erupt into flame-like projections.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Jade of Itoigawa

糸魚川市上越

Among the world's oldest jade-working sites: 5,000 years ago people here were drilling and polishing the hardest stone.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Zen Temples and Ink Painting

新潟市下越

Zen arrived early by sea trade; medieval ink paintings and calligraphy survive in temples across the province.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Kakudahama and Old Farmhouses

新潟市下越

A village on the dunes, where the direction of every house and windbreak still follows the old rule.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Shibata Castle

新発田市下越

Its turret roof is T-shaped and carries three shachi finials - the only such example in Japan.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Gosen Silk

五泉市下越

A silk district working both weave and knit, its foundation the technique of twisting the yarn.

新潟県 · Art & museums

Tokamachi Kimono

十日町市中越

From ramie to silk kasuri and yuzen; the snow's humidity is what makes the dyeing work.