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徳島県 · Art & museums

Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center

上勝町東部

Built from windows and doors salvaged across the town, and laid out in plan as a question mark.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Earth Pillars

阿波市東部

Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Wasanbon Sugar

上板町東部

Sugar kneaded by hand and pressed into carved wooden moulds - the moulds themselves carved down the generations.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Tokushima Prefectural Museum

徳島市東部

The province's general museum, organised around its blue-green stone and the society indigo built.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Bunka no Mori Park

徳島市東部

Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Ryozenji, Temple One

鳴門市東部

The start of a 1,400-kilometre pilgrimage, where the white robe, sedge hat and staff are first assembled.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Yakuoji

美波町南部

Stairs counted out to match the unlucky years of life, and a tower at the top open to the sea.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Naruto Whirlpools

鳴門市東部

Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Indigo Merchants of Mima

美馬市西部

The storehouses of the indigo traders, built to hold the temperature and damp the fermentation needs.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Chiiori and the Thatched Houses of Iya

三好市西部

A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Odori

徳島市東部

Four centuries old; each troupe's matched colours and crest function as its identifying mark.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Indigo Vats

徳島市東部

Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Mt Bizan and Tokushima

徳島市東部

A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Anan Coast

阿南市南部

A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Mugi

牟岐町南部

Houses ringed with stone against wind and wave, the whole hamlet built almost as one structure.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Forestry of Naka

那賀町南部

Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Indigo Fields of Ishii

石井町東部

Indigo planted where the river floods and enriches the soil - a crop chosen to turn disaster into profit.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Blue Stone of Awa

徳島市東部

A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Images of Awa

徳島市東部

Heian and Kamakura images survive along the pilgrim route - the pilgrimage itself acting as their protection.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Festival Floats of Awa

三好市西部

Indigo money paid for the floats; the carving and embroidery record the merchants' wealth.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Salt Making of Naruto

鳴門市東部

Salt fields once covered this shore; their divisions remain in the land, an industry that stood beside indigo.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Hachisuka Family Furnishings

徳島市東部

The furnishings of a domain enriched by its indigo monopoly - the economy visible in the lacquer.

徳島県 · Art & museums

The Yoshino River

徳島市東部

Stretches were deliberately left unbanked to let floods pass - villages and fields laid out on the assumption of inundation.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Townhouses of Tokushima

徳島市東部

A town laid out along its rivers, with landing stages behind the storehouses.