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北海道 · Art & museums

Sapporo Shiryokan

札幌市道央

A former courthouse in soft stone; a restored courtroom sits beside rooms given over to citizens' exhibitions.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art

旭川市道北

Collecting around 'form in wood' - a policy that follows directly from Asahikawa's furniture industry.

北海道 · Art & museums

Nakahara Teijiro Memorial Asahikawa Museum of Sculpture

旭川市道北

The sculpture of Teijiro Nakahara, dead young, shown in a 1902 army officers' club that is itself an Important Cultural Property.

北海道 · Art & museums

Asahikawa City Museum

旭川市道北

Built around Kamikawa Ainu material - dugout canoes and ritual objects presented as working tools rather than curiosities.

北海道 · Art & museums

Higashikawa International Photo Festival

東川町道北

A town of 8,000 declared itself the photography town and has run this festival, and its international prize, for forty years.

北海道 · Art & museums

Takushinkan

美瑛町道央

A converted school in the middle of the hills, showing the landscape photographs Shinzo Maeda took of those same hills.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kenbuchi Picture Book Village

剣淵町道北

A village of 3,000 rebuilt its identity around picture books, and has run an original-illustration prize ever since.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art

帯広市道東

Built around printmaking, in a wood in Midorigaoka park, with regular shows of artists from the Tokachi plain.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kanda Nissho Memorial Museum of Art

鹿追町道東

A farmer who painted while working the land and died at 32; his unfinished horse, brushed onto plywood, is the centrepiece.

北海道 · Art & museums

Rokka no Mori

中札内村道東

The wildflower paintings known from a confectioner's wrapping paper, shown in huts scattered through a Tokachi wood - the garden is the display.

北海道 · Art & museums

Aihara Kyuichiro Museum

中札内村道東

In a converted bathhouse at the heart of a small museum village, for a painter who worked only on Hokkaido's winter mountains and seas.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Kushiro Museum of Art

釧路市道東

Gallery and theatre in one building, collecting eastern Hokkaido artists and work taking the Kushiro marshes as subject.

北海道 · Art & museums

Kushiro City Museum of Art

釧路市道東

Inside a lifelong learning centre, quietly showing and collecting the work of local artists.

北海道 · Art & museums

Akanko Ainu Kotan

釧路市道東

A settlement of some thirty Ainu woodcarving workshops, where the carving is done in the open and bought directly from the maker.

北海道 · Art & museums

Abashiri City Museum of Art

網走市道東

One of the older municipal museums in the province, built around Kaichi Igushi's paintings of the Okhotsk fisheries.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples

網走市道東

Ranges Ainu material beside Sami and Inuit - the only museum in Japan that treats the whole circumpolar north as one subject.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art

函館市道南

Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hakodate City Museum

函館市道南

One of the oldest museums in Japan, holding what gathered in this treaty port and the Ainu craft of southern Hokkaido.

北海道 · Art & museums

Former Hakodate Public Hall

函館市道南

A timber Western hall on the slope above the port; its original furniture and blue-and-yellow colour scheme show what the trade was worth.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples

函館市道南

In a former Bank of Japan branch, holding a major Ainu collection strong in attus, the cloth woven from tree bark.

北海道 · Art & museums

Hakodate Orthodox Church

函館市道南

The birthplace of Japanese Orthodoxy: white walls, green domes and the icons inside, all designated together.

北海道 · Art & museums

Otaru Art Base

小樽市道央

Four historic banks and warehouses turned into one museum complex; the stained glass came from English churches.

北海道 · Art & museums

Otaru City Museum of Art

小樽市道央

Three local artists get permanent rooms, among them Yutoku Ichihara, who printed from corroded metal plates.

北海道 · Art & museums

Bank of Japan Otaru Museum

小樽市道央

By Kingo Tatsuno, architect of Tokyo Station, at the centre of what was called the Wall Street of the north; entry is free.