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和歌山県 · Art & museums

Negoro Lacquer Technique

岩出市紀北

Made by monks for their own use; stripped of ornament and built only for strength, the utility became the style.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Coastal Rock Forms of Shirahama

白浜町紀南

Sandstone planed flat by waves, and an islet pierced by a round hole the setting sun drops through.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Tokugawa Furnishings

和歌山市紀北

Furnishings made for one of the three Tokugawa houses; the wedding sets were designed as a single coordinated suite.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Sculptors of Koyasan

高野町高野

Many images here were carved for the mountain by the capital's leading sculptors, so the workshops can be traced.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Gobo Temple Town

御坊市紀中

A town grown around a temple, its grid plan still legible in the streets.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kushimoto Coast

串本町紀南

One of Japan's earliest stone lighthouses, by Richard Brunton, at the southern tip of the main island.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kilns of Kishu

和歌山市紀北

Several kilns nurtured by the Kishu domain survive, among them a celadon imitation made for the lord's own use.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Ichimai-iwa of Kozagawa

古座川町紀南

A single rock face five hundred metres wide standing over the river - among the largest monoliths in Japan.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Pile Fabrics of Koyaguchi

橋本市高野

Cotton raised into a pile until it reads as fur; most of Japan's pile fabric is woven in this valley.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Lacquer Wholesalers of Kuroe

海南市紀北

The warehouses of the lacquer wholesalers survive, showing how making and distribution worked as one.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Picture Preaching

新宮市紀南

Nuns walked all Japan explaining a painted mandala of heaven and hell - pictures used as the instrument of preaching.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Tomogashima Fortifications

和歌山市紀北

Meiji brick gun batteries left on an island, now overgrown - engineering become ruin landscape.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Ritual Implements of Koyasan

高野町高野

Metal implements for esoteric ritual - made to be used, yet every form is a symbol.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art

倉吉市中部

A new prefectural museum whose purchase of Warhol's Brillo Boxes became a public argument about what art is worth.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Tottori Folk Crafts Museum

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Founded by a doctor who did not merely collect folk craft but commissioned new designs from living potters.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Takumi Craft Shop

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Across the street from the museum, selling not the collection but what is being made now - the same doctor's experiment.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Tottori Prefectural Museum

鳥取市因幡（東部）

At the foot of the castle hill, holding the Ikeda lords' furnishings and the province's art.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Jinpukaku

鳥取市因幡（東部）

A white timber villa by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, with an unsupported spiral stair in its hall.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Watanabe Art Museum

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Thirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Inshu Washi

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Ushinoto Ware

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Nakai Kiln

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Tottori Sand Dunes

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Wind redraws the ripple patterns every night - a design remade daily, and photographed for a century.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

The Sand Museum

鳥取市因幡（東部）

The only museum in the world for sand sculpture; each year's works are destroyed and returned to sand when the show closes.