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山梨県 · Art & museums

Takeda Clan Residence Site

甲府市 国中

Shingen ruled from a square residence, not a castle - his saying that people are the castle, left in the ground.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Shingen Levee

甲斐市 国中

Rather than sealing the river, the levee is deliberately gapped to let water escape - engineering doctrine as landscape.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Vineyards of Katsunuma

甲州市 国中

Trellised vineyards covering the slopes, where Japanese winemaking began; Meiji brick cellars still stand.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature

甲府市 国中

In the same park as the art museum, showing manuscripts as much for the hand as for the text.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Oshino Hakkai

忍野村 郡内（富士北麓）

Eight springs fed by Fuji's groundwater, visited in sequence by pilgrims - belief mapped onto terrain.

山梨県 · Art & museums

The Five Lakes and Fuji's Viewpoints

富士河口湖町 郡内（富士北麓）

The exact spots Hokusai and Hiroshige drew can still be stood on, and the compositions checked against the view.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Yamura and Gunnai Textiles

都留市 郡内（富士北麓）

Thin lustrous silk that sold in Edo for linings and umbrellas, woven in this valley.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Kiyosato Highland Buildings

北杜市 国中

A highland community founded by an American missionary, its timber lodge buildings still standing in the woods.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Koumi Line and the Yatsugatake

北杜市 国中

A railway at 1,375 metres, a single drawn line across the plateau that photographers return to.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Enzan

甲州市 国中

Stone that weathers to rust-red, quarried for gardens; the craft includes choosing and setting it, not only cutting.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Jindai Zakura

北杜市 国中

One of Japan's three great cherries: hollowed out and held up by props, standing as a form made by time.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Modern Architecture of Kofu

甲府市 国中

From pseudo-Western schools to postwar modernism, Kofu keeps the layers of a provincial city's modernity.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Villages of Hayakawa

早川町 峡南

A pilgrimage stop between two sacred mountains, its houses stepped up stone terraces on a steep slope.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Implements of Minobu

身延町 峡南

A temple-gate trade in Buddhist implements, the beads turned and the tassels braided by separate hands.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Zen Temples of Kai

甲州市 国中

Zen spread here under Takeda patronage, leaving medieval halls and images scattered across the province.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Jewellery Quarter of Kofu

甲府市 国中

A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Mt Kaikoma and Mountain Worship

北杜市 国中

A white granite peak worshipped as a body of the god, its climbing path punctuated by stone shrines.

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Honcho Street, Fujiyoshida

富士吉田市 郡内（富士北麓）

A street aimed straight at Mt Fuji, its Showa shopfronts and the mountain falling into one frame.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Stone Walls of Kofu Castle

甲府市 国中

The keep is gone; only the rough-stacked stone walls remain, rising in the middle of the modern city.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Round Stone Deities of Kai

笛吹市 国中

In this basin the roadside deity is not carved into a figure but is simply a rounded stone - a form found almost nowhere else.

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Shichiriiwa Cliffs of Nirasaki

韮崎市 国中

Thirty kilometres of cliff formed by pyroclastic flow, with halls dug sideways into the rock face.

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Alluvial Fan of the Midai River

南アルプス市 国中

Stone works built to tame a violent river; the terrain and the villages on it were shaped by that engineering.

山梨県 · Art & museums

Joinery of Kai

甲府市 国中

Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.

山梨県 · Regional selections

Genpoen

A visitor farm in Yamanashi with grape picking. The prefecture has many such farms.