Kanazawa Yasue Gold Leaf Museum

The museum was first founded in 1974 by local master Yasue Takaaki in Kitayasue as a private museum called the Yasue Golden Leaf Museum.The museum exhibits about 300 works of art sheets of gold, the history of gold leaves in Kanazawa, the process of making gold leaves and tools involved in its process. The artifacts consist of works from the early period of Japan, the Edo period and the present. Exhibits include folding screens, Kagi incubation works, Kaga varnish works, Kanazawa Buddhist altar, Kutani porcelain, Noh costumes.