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三重県 · Art & museums

Okage Yokocho

伊勢市伊勢志摩

A street rebuilt in the gable-fronted form typical of Ise, showing how a pilgrimage town was shaped.

三重県 · Art & museums

Meoto Iwa

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Two sea rocks joined by a sacred rope; at the summer solstice the sun rises between them, completing the composition.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ria Coast of Shima

志摩市伊勢志摩

Drowned valleys forming a maze of inlets, across which pearl rafts lay out their regular artificial lines.

三重県 · Art & museums

Tado Taisha

桑名市北勢

Halls set along a mountain stream, with a rite in which horses charge straight up an earth bank.

三重県 · Art & museums

Akame Waterfalls

名張市伊賀

Four kilometres of continuous waterfalls, used as a training ground by mountain ascetics.

三重県 · Art & museums

Owase Cypress Forestry

尾鷲市東紀州

Cypress grown in one of Japan's wettest places; dense planting and thinning rule the slopes into pattern.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ueno Castle Town

伊賀市伊賀

Streets deliberately bent at right angles for defence, the layout still as Todo Takatora planned it.

三重県 · Art & museums

Candles of Kameyama

亀山市中勢

A post town trading in candles and daily goods; the Japanese candle is wound from paper and rush pith.

三重県 · Art & museums

Tools of the Ama Divers

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

The gear of free-diving women, their cloth still stitched with star and grid marks to ward off harm.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ring Levees of Kuwana

桑名市北勢

Whole villages ringed by their own levees, each homestead keeping a stone-raised refuge building against flood.

三重県 · Art & museums

Industrial Landscape of Yokkaichi

四日市市北勢

A petrochemical complex that at night becomes an assembly of light - a landscape that also carries a pollution history.

三重県 · Art & museums

Gikakushi Paper of Ise

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Paper lacquered and embossed to pass as leather, made for pilgrims, lost, and recently reconstructed.

三重県 · Art & museums

Heian Buddhas of Mie

津市中勢

On the road between the capital and Ise, so small temples here keep an unusual number of Heian images.

三重県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Shima

志摩市伊勢志摩

Stone piled into the narrow inlets to make level ground, and houses set along it - a village shaped by terrain.

三重県 · Art & museums

Flood Works of Nagashima

桑名市北勢

Levees built by the Satsuma domain under shogunal order still divide three rivers and govern the terrain.

三重県 · Art & museums

Thatched Houses of Iga

伊賀市伊賀

Thatched farmhouses around the basin rim, the pitch and orientation of each roof set by wind and snow.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Shiga Museum of Art

大津市湖南

The first public museum in Japan to make art brut a collecting pillar - work by makers who never trained, taken seriously.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

MIHO MUSEUM

甲賀市湖南

By I.M. Pei, architect of the Louvre pyramid: a tunnel bored through a mountain and a suspension bridge, modelled on a Chinese vision of paradise.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Sagawa Art Museum

守山市湖南

Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Otsu City Museum of History

大津市湖南

Built around Otsu-e folk paintings and the Buddhist art of Mt Hiei, in the town that served both.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Otsu-e Folk Paintings

大津市湖南

Mass-produced roadside paintings sold to travellers, drawn fast to fixed subjects - later hailed by Yanagi as folk art.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Enryakuji Konpon Chudo

大津市湖南

The Tendai head temple, where the icon sits below the worshippers so the two meet at eye level - a section found nowhere else.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Miidera

大津市湖南

Four National Treasure buildings; burned and rebuilt again and again, so each era's architecture stands in one precinct.

滋賀県 · Art & museums

Ishiyamadera

大津市湖南

Halls built on a mass of wollastonite rock; its pagoda is the oldest of its type, and Murasaki is said to have begun Genji here.