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徳島県 · Art & museums

Umbrellas and Lanterns of Mima

美馬市西部

Umbrellas and lanterns of bamboo and paper, some covered in indigo-dyed sheets.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Butsudan of Awa

徳島市東部

Indigo-rich farming villages could afford altars, and so a whole trade grew to supply them.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Satoyama of Kamiyama

神山町東部

Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Oboke Gorge

三好市西部

The river cut down through crystalline schist; the layered rock faces repeat like a drawn pattern.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Kokubunji Garden

徳島市東部

Blue schist set upright in ranks - an unusually forceful dry garden of the Momoyama period.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Jurobe Yashiki

徳島市東部

The house behind a famous puppet play, now performing it daily so the handling can be watched at close range.

徳島県 · Art & museums

The Shikoku Pilgrimage

徳島市東部

Eighty-eight temples over 1,400 kilometres, with stone markers turning the distance itself into structure.

香川県 · Art & museums

Chichu Art Museum

直島町東讃

Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.

香川県 · Art & museums

Benesse House Museum

直島町東讃

A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.

香川県 · Art & museums

Art House Project

直島町東讃

Empty houses and a shrine in a working village turned into artworks, with residents themselves acting as guides.

香川県 · Art & museums

Lee Ufan Museum

直島町東讃

For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kusama's Pumpkins, Naoshima

直島町東讃

A polka-dotted pumpkin at the end of a pier became the island's emblem; washed away by a typhoon, it was repaired and returned.

香川県 · Art & museums

Naoshima Bath I Love Yu

直島町東讃

A working public bath plastered with the artist's collected signage and tile - an artwork the islanders wash in.

香川県 · Art & museums

Teshima Art Museum

土庄町東讃

A columnless concrete shell shaped like a water drop; water seeps from the floor and moves through the day - work and building indistinguishable.

香川県 · Art & museums

Teshima Yokoo House

土庄町東讃

An old house rebuilt with red glass in the garden so the whole site reads red, and a mirrored tower at its edge.

香川県 · Art & museums

Setouchi Triennale

高松市高松

An international exhibition across twelve islands, begun as an attempt to bring people back to depopulated and polluted places.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kagawa Museum

高松市高松

History and art in one institution, built around calligraphy and Buddhist art in the province that produced Kukai.

香川県 · Art & museums

Takamatsu Art Museum

高松市高松

Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.

香川県 · Art & museums

Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

高松市高松

Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.

香川県 · Art & museums

Ritsurin Garden

高松市高松

It takes the mountain behind it into the garden; its pines have been shaped by hand, tree by tree, for three centuries.

香川県 · Art & museums

Takamatsu Castle

高松市高松

Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.

香川県 · Art & museums

Shikoku Mura

高松市高松

Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Folk Craft Museum

高松市高松

Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.

香川県 · Art & museums

Aji Granite

高松市高松

Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.