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Here are some of Japan’s best outdoor art galleries and museums. Allow a couple of hours – or half-day for the larger museums – so you can take a slower pace and enjoy the natural surroundings.

A century ago, the Japanese critic Sōetsu Yanagi, with the potters Shōji Hamada and Kawai Kanjirō, coined the term Mingei (“art of the people”), an elision of minshūteki kōgei ...