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山口県 · Art & museums

Omijima Coast

長門市西部

Basalt cut by wind and wave into arches and stacks, most of it visible only from a boat.

山口県 · Art & museums

Korean Potters of Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

The families of the abducted Korean potters still run kilns here - a transfer of technique preserved as lineage.

山口県 · Art & museums

Kanmon Strait Crossings

下関市西部

One strait crossed four ways - bridge, rail, road and a pedestrian tunnel walked beneath the seabed.

山口県 · Art & museums

Townhouse Reuse in Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

Empty townhouses turned into inns and studios - an ongoing test of how to preserve by using.

山口県 · Art & museums

Medieval Sculpture of Suo

防府市中部

Ouchi patronage left many medieval images here, showing how the capital's style shifted in provincial hands.

徳島県 · Art & museums

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum

徳島市東部

Collecting on three axes - the human figure, this province, and the present - centred on how the body was depicted in the 20th century.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Otsuka Museum of Art

鳴門市東部

A thousand Western masterpieces reproduced full size on ceramic panels said to last two millennia - including works long destroyed.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Indigo

徳島市東部

Indigo leaves composted into sukumo; only a handful of makers remain, and most Japanese indigo dyeing still depends on them.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Ai no Yakata Indigo Museum

藍住町東部

In an indigo merchant's mansion, with the fermenting beds and the whole composting process shown at full size.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Shijira Cloth

徳島市東部

Woven at uneven tension and then shrunk, so the surface puckers and touches the skin less - a cloth for heat.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Odori Kaikan

徳島市東部

On a dance four centuries old, where each troupe's matched coats and hats work as its emblem.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Tokushima Castle Museum

徳島市東部

A Momoyama garden built from the province's blue-green schist, composed from the colour and shape of the stone alone.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Puppet Theatre

徳島市東部

Indigo wealth planted puppet theatre in the villages; dozens of their open-air stages still survive and still perform.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Puppet Heads

徳島市東部

Carved larger than Bunraku's so they read from a distance outdoors; the master Tengukyu's heads are still in use.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Inukai Rural Stage

徳島市東部

A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Otani Ware

鳴門市東部

Great jars thrown on a wheel kicked by a man lying on his back while another shapes the clay - a method born of indigo vats.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Naruto German House

鳴門市東部

A First World War POW camp where the prisoners ran presses and workshops - and gave Japan its first performance of Beethoven's Ninth.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Udatsu Street, Wakimachi

美馬市西部

An indigo trading town where the firewalls between houses grew ever taller as displays of wealth.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Two-Tier Udatsu of Sadamitsu

つるぎ町西部

Firewalls stacked in two tiers - a form found in this town alone, sometimes coloured in the plaster.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Iya Vine Bridge

三好市西部

A suspension bridge woven from mountain vine and rebuilt entirely every three years, so the skill can never lapse.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Ochiai Village

三好市西部

Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Washi

吉野川市東部

Thirteen centuries of papermaking, and now a workshop that makes oversized and custom sheets for artists worldwide.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awagami Factory

吉野川市東部

Kept the hand technique and developed washi for inkjet printing - an old craft finding a current use.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Kamiyama Artist in Residence

神山町東部

A mountain village of 5,000 that has hosted artists for over twenty years; their works remain scattered through it.