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栃木県 · Art & museums

Seiji Fujishiro Museum

那須町県北

Shadow pictures shown as they were meant to be seen - cut paper lit from behind in a darkened room.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nasu Stained Glass Museum

那須町県北

Nineteenth-century English stained glass reinstalled in purpose-built stone chapels.

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N's YARD

那須塩原市県北

Yoshitomo Nara's own space, where his works sit beside the records and folk objects he collects.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nasunogahara Museum

那須塩原市県北

The record of how irrigation canals turned an alluvial fan into farmland.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nasu no Yoichi Museum

大田原市県北

On the archer of the Heike epic, showing medieval warrior dress and bows.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Arai Kampo Memorial Museum

さくら市県央

A Nihonga painter who copied the Ajanta cave murals in India, renewing Buddhist painting in modern Japan.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Oyama Kurumaya Museum

小山市県南

A rice merchant's storehouse and residence converted into galleries, the buildings themselves listed.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Shimotsuke Yakushiji Ruins

下野市県南

One of only three national ordination platforms in ancient Japan, and the only one in the east.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nogi Brick Kiln

野木町県南

A sixteen-sided Hoffmann kiln for continuous brick firing - one of only four left in Japan.

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Mooka Cotton

真岡市県東

In Edo, cotton meant Mooka; the trade died out and was revived from hand-spinning up.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Tenmyo Ironware

佐野市県南

A thousand years of casting; tea masters ranked its kettles second only to Ashiya in the west.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Karasuyama Washi

那須烏山市県東

Thick Hodomura paper, used for mounting scrolls and formal certificates.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Mibu Toy Museum

壬生町県央

In a town of toy factories, collecting mass-produced Showa toys as design objects.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Wisteria of Ashikaga

足利市県南

A wisteria trained over 1,000 square metres - a living structure made possible by transplanting the old tree.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Oya Underground Space and Art

宇都宮市県央

The quarry void is now used for exhibitions and performance, the space itself part of the work.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Nikko Cedar Avenue

日光市県北

Twelve thousand cedars planted over two decades, roofing 37 km of highway - the world's longest tree avenue.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Matsugamine Catholic Church

宇都宮市県央

A Romanesque church built entirely of Oya stone, among the largest stone churches in Japan.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Craft Studios of Nasu

那須町県北

Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, built up by artists who moved here.

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Mashiko Pottery Fair

益子町県東

Five hundred stalls twice a year, the model on which Japan's other pottery fairs were built.

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Utsunomiya Civic Gallery

宇都宮市県央

A civic gallery that keeps the base of the local art scene in constant exhibition.

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Bell Casting of Sano

佐野市県南

Casters here supplied temple bells across Japan; the inscriptions let their lineage be traced.

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Nikko Temple Town

日光市県北

A pilgrimage town whose inns and shopfronts layer centuries of visitors.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Uzuma River and Black Fences

栃木市県南

Black fences run the length of the river - a logistics structure that became the town's face.

栃木県 · Art & museums

Moka Railway Steam Locomotive

真岡市県東

A station built in the shape of a steam locomotive - machinery translated into architecture.