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鳥取県 · Art & museums

Lake Togo and its Villages

湯梨浜町中部

A lake whose bed produces hot water, with a torii standing in the shallows.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Mt Daisen

大山町伯耆（西部）

From one side a perfect cone, from another a shattered ridge - a mountain worshipped as itself.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Pear Trellises of Tottori

倉吉市中部

Pears trained flat overhead, so each orchard becomes a green ceiling with shade beneath.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Tottori Castle Ruins

鳥取市因幡（東部）

A spherical stone bulge was added to hold a failing wall - the only such structure in Japan, engineering turned into form.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Shikano Castle Town

鳥取市因幡（東部）

A castle town of grid streets and running water channels, its lattice fronts still in place.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Iron Sand Workings of Hino

日野町伯耆（西部）

Hills washed away to extract iron sand left stepped terrain - proof that ironmaking reshaped the land itself.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Inshu Papermaking Workshops

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Winter paper is made in freezing water; the speed and angle of the shaking mould decide how even the sheet will be.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Red-Tiled Streets

倉吉市中部

Glazed Sekishu tiles resist snow and salt, and their red is what gives this coast's towns their colour.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Heian Buddhas of Tottori

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Single-block Heian images survive in mountain temples here, a record of how the provinces carved.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Pilgrim Path of Mt Mitoku

三朝町中部

The path to the cliff hall is climbed by chain and tree root - the visit itself designed as an ordeal.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Thatched Houses of Nichinan

日野町伯耆（西部）

Thatched houses in the Chugoku mountains, their eaves pulled deep against snow and cold.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Mt Senjo and its Rock Carvings

琴浦町中部

Columnar rock standing like a folding screen, with Buddhas cut into the face.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Countryside of Nanbu

南部町伯耆（西部）

Farmland below Mt Daisen, where the placement of windbreak woods and terraces follows terrain and weather.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Tottori

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Lanterns and guardian lions supplied to shrines across the region, each quarry's masons cutting differently.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Yokai as Local Form

境港市伯耆（西部）

One cartoonist's drawings remade an entire town's appearance - form tied directly to a local economy.

鳥取県 · Art & museums

Dune Farming and Windbreaks

鳥取市因幡（東部）

Belts of black pine planted to stop the sand moving - human lines now defining the dunes' own edges.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shimane Art Museum

松江市松江・隠岐

Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo

出雲市出雲

Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.

島根県 · Art & museums

Adachi Museum of Art

安来市松江・隠岐

Ranked Japan's finest garden for over twenty consecutive years by a US journal; its windows are framed to present the garden as a painting.

島根県 · Art & museums

Tanabe Art Museum

松江市松江・隠岐

Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.

島根県 · Art & museums

Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum

松江市松江・隠岐

For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.

島根県 · Art & museums

Matsue Castle

松江市松江・隠岐

A National Treasure keep built for war: its columns are wrapped in boards and banded with iron throughout.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shiomi Nawate

松江市松江・隠岐

Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.

島根県 · Art & museums

Meimean Tea House

松江市松江・隠岐

Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.