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岩手県 · Art & museums

Zaimokucho Yoichi

盛岡市県央

A weekly street market lined with monuments to Kenji Miyazawa.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Kanjizaio-in Ruins

平泉町県南

Only the Pure Land garden survives of a temple built by the wife of Fujiwara no Motohira.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Genbikei

一関市県南

A gorge of water-carved rock, famous for dumplings delivered across it by basket and rope.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Nambu Chest

二戸市県央

Chests of zelkova wood fitted with hand-forged iron mounts, made by two trades working in tandem.

岩手県 · Art & museums

Konyacho, Morioka

盛岡市県央

The old indigo dyers' quarter, where Edo-period townhouses still trade as shops.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Miyagi Museum of Art

仙台市仙台

One of Kunio Maekawa's finest buildings, with a wing devoted to the sculptor Churyo Sato.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Mediatheque

仙台市仙台

Toyo Ito replaced columns with woven steel tubes, stacking floors with no walls - a landmark of 21st-century public architecture.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai City Museum

仙台市仙台

Holds the National Treasure records of the Keicho embassy to Rome, and Date Masamune's black armour.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Serizawa Keisuke Art and Craft Museum

仙台市仙台

Stencil-dyed works by Living National Treasure Keisuke Serizawa, shown with the folk objects he collected.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kamei Museum

仙台市仙台

Five thousand kokeshi dolls arranged by regional lineage, beside butterflies and Western-style paintings.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Osaki Hachimangu

仙台市仙台

Built by Date Masamune in 1607, the oldest surviving gongen-zukuri shrine, in black lacquer and gold.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Zuihoden

仙台市仙台

Date Masamune's mausoleum, rebuilt in full Momoyama polychromy after wartime fire.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Miyagi Prefectural Library

仙台市仙台

By Hiroshi Hara, architect of the Umeda Sky Building; a vast hull seeming to float on the hill.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Jotei no Mori Museum

仙台市仙台

A 20,000-year-old forest floor and campfire preserved underground exactly as excavated.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Jomon Forest Park

仙台市仙台

Built on a middle Jomon settlement, where visitors can try potting and fire-making.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Akiu Craft Village

仙台市仙台

Nine workshops in one hamlet, where the three trades behind a Sendai chest can be watched separately.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Tamamushi Lacquer

仙台市仙台

Colour lacquer over silver powder, shifting like a jewel beetle's wing; developed for export in the 1930s.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Chest

仙台市仙台

Zelkova grain glowing through lacquer, dressed in hand-forged iron mounts; its size came from storing swords.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sculptures on Jozenji Street

仙台市仙台

Three bronzes by Italian sculptors stand in the median of a zelkova-lined boulevard.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Sendai Daikannon

仙台市仙台

A 100-metre white Kannon; visitors climb inside past 108 Buddhist figures.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Zuiganji

松島町三陸沿岸

A Zen temple Date Masamune took five years to build, its rooms painted in gold by the Kano school.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Entsuin

松島町三陸沿岸

Its shrine doors are carved with roses and daffodils - Western motifs that slipped in under national seclusion.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Godaido

松島町三陸沿岸

A small hall on an islet, its eaves carved with the twelve zodiac animals facing their compass points.

宮城県 · Art & museums

Kanrantei

松島町三陸沿岸

A tea room said to have been given by Hideyoshi, opened solely toward the view of Matsushima Bay.