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和歌山県 · Art & museums

Fudarakusanji

那智勝浦町紀南

From here monks were sealed alive into small boats and set adrift toward the southern sea; a replica boat stands in the grounds.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Niutsuhime Shrine

かつらぎ町高野

Dedicated to the deity said to have granted the land for Koyasan; its arched vermilion bridge stands in a mountain clearing.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Jisonin and the Choishi Michi

九度山町高野

Stone markers set every 109 metres up the mountain road - 180 of them over twenty kilometres, the path itself made form.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Lacquerware

海南市紀北

Red lacquer over black, so wear reveals the black beneath - a craft that treats use itself as the finishing process.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kuroe District

海南市紀北

Plots were divided on the diagonal, so the houses step along the street like saw teeth.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Chests

和歌山市紀北

Built in paulownia with almost no metal; the fit is so tight that pushing one drawer pushes another out.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Fishing Rods

橋本市高野

Bamboo from the Koyasan slopes joined through dozens of stages - treated less as tackle than as lacquerwork.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Hoda Paper

有田川町紀中

A domain-sponsored paper that died out and was reconstructed by local people from surviving records.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Binchotan Charcoal

みなべ町紀中

Fired above a thousand degrees until it rings like metal when struck; every maker draws the kiln differently.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Ryujin Lacquerware

田辺市紀中

Lacquer from a hot-spring valley, made from timber and sap taken off the same mountains.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Minakata Kumagusu Museum

白浜町紀南

A naturalist who studied slime moulds and fought to save sacred forests; his drawings and notebooks survive.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Minakata Kumagusu Archives

田辺市紀中

His house and library kept as they were - including the way the books were piled.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Yuasa Historic District

湯浅町紀中

Where Japanese soy sauce is said to have begun; the brewers' houses and storehouses still line the lanes.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Hashigui-iwa Rocks

串本町紀南

Forty rock columns in a straight line, all that remains of a hard dyke after the softer stone eroded away.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kamikura Shrine

新宮市紀南

A giant boulder is the deity, with a small hall wedged beneath it, reached by 538 steep medieval steps.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Sato Haruo Memorial Museum

新宮市紀南

The poet's Tokyo house was dismantled and rebuilt in his home town - a building returned to its birthplace.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Taiji Whale Museum

太地町紀南

Records of old-style whaling; the painted fleet formations read as working diagrams for collective labour.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Wakanoura

和歌山市紀北

A shore celebrated in poetry for thirteen centuries, with an Edo-period arched stone bridge still standing.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kimiidera

和歌山市紀北

Halls stepped up a slope above the bay, now housing one of the largest wooden standing Kannon in Japan.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Terraced Orange Groves of Arida

有田市紀中

Four centuries of stone terracing turned these slopes into stairs, planted with citrus to the ridge.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Plum Groves of Minabe

みなべ町紀中

Plums, the woodland that feeds their bees, and the charcoal made from it - one system, recognised as agricultural heritage.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Temple Lodgings of Koyasan

高野町高野

Around fifty of the mountain's 117 temples take guests, so their halls and gardens can be experienced from inside.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Nyonindo and the Women's Path

高野町高野

While women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Nachi Falls

那智勝浦町紀南

No building: the waterfall itself is the deity, Japan's highest single drop, roped at the lip.