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山形県 · Art & museums

Homma Family Residence

酒田市庄内

Samurai house at the front, merchant house behind - wealth negotiating the class system in built form.

山形県 · Art & museums

Sankyo Rice Warehouses

酒田市庄内

Rice warehouses with double roofs and a screen of zelkovas planted to block the afternoon sun.

山形県 · Art & museums

Somaro

酒田市庄内

A port-town teahouse still staging maiko dance, with Yumeji Takehisa's works upstairs.

山形県 · Art & museums

Matsuyama Culture Museum

酒田市庄内

Noh masks and robes of the small Matsuyama domain, showing how minor lords sustained the art.

山形県 · Art & museums

Jionji

寒河江市村山

Eighteen Heian and Kamakura Buddhist sculptures survive here, a concentration rare outside the capital.

山形県 · Art & museums

Safflower Museum

河北町村山

In a safflower merchant's house, tracing how petals became rouge and travelled to Kyoto.

山形県 · Art & museums

Ginzan Onsen

尾花沢市村山

Wooden inns of the 1920s facing each other across a stream, their plaster walls modelled in relief.

山形県 · Art & museums

Shinjo Festival Floats

新庄市最上

Twenty floats rebuilt from scratch each year, each staging a scene from kabuki in three dimensions.

山形県 · Art & museums

Snow Museum

新庄市最上

Research on snow crystals, whose microscope photographs stand as natural design.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tsuruoka Art Forum

鶴岡市庄内

A circular gallery serving as the city's main venue for regional artists.

山形県 · Art & museums

Oyama Sake District

鶴岡市庄内

Once called the Nada of Tohoku; the white-walled breweries still line the street.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tatekawa School Carvings

鶴岡市庄内

Deep-relief dragons and lions carved into shrine and temple beams across the Shonai plain.

山形県 · Art & museums

Kaminoyama Castle Museum

上山市村山

A reconstructed keep telling how castle town, hot spring and post station grew as one.

山形県 · Art & museums

Nagai Waterways

長井市置賜

A river-trade town threaded with canals that reach behind the merchant houses themselves.

山形県 · Art & museums

Miyama Washi

白鷹町置賜

Hand-made paper of pure kozo bark, once reserved for the Uesugi domain.

山形県 · Art & museums

Takahata Stone Quarries

高畠町置賜

Vertical walls left by tuff quarrying; the cut stone became the town's storehouses.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yonezawa Armour

米沢市置賜

Armour and swords said to be Uesugi Kenshin's own, kept in the shrine treasury.

山形県 · Art & museums

Hanagasa Festival Hats

山形市村山

Sedge hats hung with imitation safflowers, each district decorating its own.

山形県 · Art & museums

Zao Snow Monsters

山形市村山

Ice and snow layer onto conifers until they become vast figures - sculpture made by weather.

山形県 · Art & museums

Mogami River Boat Route

戸沢村最上

The route that carried safflower and rice to Kyoto, its banks unrolling like a painted scroll.

山形県 · Art & museums

Yamagata Forged Blades

山形市村山

Blacksmithing that grew alongside the casting trade, still forging farm tools and kitchen knives.

山形県 · Art & museums

Sagae Orchards

寒河江市村山

Orchards terraced across an alluvial fan, a farmed landscape that changes colour by season.

山形県 · Art & museums

Tsuruoka Silk

鶴岡市庄内

One of the few places in Japan where silk is raised, reeled and woven in a single district.

山形県 · Art & museums

Matsugaoka Reclamation Site

鶴岡市庄内

Three thousand former samurai cleared this land; the silkworm houses are roofed with tiles from their demolished castle.