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富山県 · Art & museums

Toyama Civic Hall

富山市 呉東

Built during recovery from wartime bombing, one of a cluster of postwar modernist civic buildings.

富山県 · Art & museums

Fairytale Buildings of Oyabe

小矢部市 呉西

A mayor had the town's schools and offices built as copies of famous world architecture - some thirty of them stand.

富山県 · Art & museums

Uchikawa Canal

射水市 呉西

Fishing boats moor at the front doors along this canal, each of its twelve bridges designed differently.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shinminato Float Festival

射水市 呉西

Floats dressed in flowers by day are re-hung with lanterns at night - one object with two forms in a day.

富山県 · Art & museums

Himi Fixed-Net Fishing

氷見市 呉西

Four centuries of fixed nets laid out across the bay - an invisible structure drawn on water.

富山県 · Art & museums

Uozu Buried Forest Museum

魚津市 呉東

Two-thousand-year-old cedar stumps displayed still submerged - natural masses presented as sculpture.

富山県 · Art & museums

Industrial Structures of Kurobe Gorge

黒部市 呉東

Power stations deep in the gorge, built to a level of design nobody was expected to see.

富山県 · Art & museums

Hillside Streets of Yatsuo

富山市 呉東

Townhouses raised on stone retaining walls above a cliff - silk and paper wealth expressed as vertical construction.

富山県 · Art & museums

Medicine Peddlers' Woodblocks

富山市 呉東

The peddlers who walked all Japan handed out woodblock-printed papers and prints - a channel that carried pictures to ordinary homes.

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Shomyo Falls

立山町 呉東

Japan's highest waterfall, painted into the Tateyama mandalas as the boundary between hell and paradise.

富山県 · Art & museums

Fugan Canal Park

富山市 呉東

A disused canal kept as water and made into a park - industrial remains recomposed as landscape.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Great Buddha

高岡市 呉西

Cast over thirty years by the town's own founders - a great bronze made entirely with local technique.

富山県 · Art & museums

Tulip Fields of Tonami

砺波市 呉西

Bulb fields divided by colour for production become, unintentionally, a vast composition in flat colour.

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Inami Streets

南砺市 呉西

Carving studios line the temple approach, and even the shop signs are carved - the whole town a display.

富山県 · Art & museums

Kaiwomaru Park

射水市 呉西

A 1930 training barque preserved afloat, its rigging standing as pure structure.

富山県 · Art & museums

Takaoka Butsudan

高岡市 呉西

Woodworker, carver, metalsmith, lacquerer and gilder each take a part - the town's whole craft in one object.

富山県 · Art & museums

Lion Dances of Himi

氷見市 呉西

Over a hundred lion dances survive in one city, each hamlet's carved head differing enough to trace its lineage.

富山県 · Art & museums

Shipping Agents' Houses of Namerikawa

滑川市 呉東

Merchant houses at a Kitamae port, opening to the sea with their storehouses ranked behind.

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Paper and Hemp of Fukumitsu

南砺市 呉西

Paper from Gokayama kozo and hemp cloth woven in the hills - work for the months the snow shut everyone in.

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Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

立山町 呉東

A route climbing 2,000 metres, whose annual snow clearing carves twenty-metre walls - a form remade each spring.

富山県 · Art & museums

Modern Painters of Toyama

富山市 呉東

Painters born in this province, among them the bird-and-flower master Ishizaki Koyo, are held across its museums.

富山県 · Industry & crafts

Inside 高岡銅器: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 富山県

高岡銅器 offers international visitors a practical gateway into 富山県's 鋳造・国指定工芸. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, skills, …

富山県 · Industry & crafts

Inside 高岡漆器: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 富山県

高岡漆器 offers international visitors a practical gateway into 富山県's 漆工・国指定工芸. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, skills, …

富山県 · Industry & crafts

Inside 井波彫刻: Industry, Technology and Local Knowledge in 富山県

井波彫刻 offers international visitors a practical gateway into 富山県's 木彫・国指定工芸. The site should be understood as a connected system of resources, skills, …