Kano Museum of Art, Yasugi City

This compact museum in Yasugi's Hirose district was founded in 1996 on the site of painter Kano Kanrai's family home by his eldest son. Kano trained as a Western oil painter before serving as a war artist in China, where he shifted to ink painting and calligraphy. After Japan's surrender he spent years petitioning the Philippine government for amnesty for convicted Japanese war criminals, eventually succeeding in 1953 when President Quirino, whose own family had been killed by Japanese soldiers, granted the request and formed a personal friendship with Kano. The museum holds rotating selections of his paintings alongside one of Japan's most significant collections of Bizen pottery.