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香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Lacquer Art

高松市高松

Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Temari Balls

高松市高松

Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.

香川県 · Art & museums

MIMOCA

丸亀市中讃

Twenty seconds from the station: a white Taniguchi box with the artist's own mural hung across its face.

香川県 · Art & museums

Marugame Castle

丸亀市中讃

The smallest of Japan's surviving keeps on its tallest stone walls - four tiers curving up like an opened fan.

香川県 · Art & museums

Marugame Fans

丸亀市中讃

Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.

香川県 · Art & museums

Nakazu Banshoen

丸亀市中讃

A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kotohiragu

琴平町中讃

Seven hundred and eighty-five steps to the main hall, and rooms painted by Maruyama Okyo at the top of them.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kanamaruza Theatre

琴平町中讃

Japan's oldest surviving playhouse; its revolve and traps are still turned by men working under the stage.

香川県 · Art & museums

Zentsuji

善通寺市中讃

Built where Kukai was born, its 45-metre pagoda standing over two separate precincts.

香川県 · Art & museums

Zenigata Sand Coin

観音寺市西讃

A giant coin dug into the beach and re-cut by the whole town twice a year - which is why it has held its shape for four centuries.

香川県 · Art & museums

Chichibugahama Beach

三豊市西讃

Tide pools left on the flats mirror the sky; a beach that photography discovered and turned into a destination.

香川県 · Art & museums

Hiketa District

東かがわ市東讃

A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Wasanbon Sugar

東かがわ市東讃

Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.

香川県 · Art & museums

Village Kabuki Stages of Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.

香川県 · Art & museums

Nakayama Rice Terraces

小豆島町東讃

Eight hundred paddies stacked up a slope, with a kabuki stage among them - farming and theatre in one view.

香川県 · Art & museums

Soy Sauce Village, Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.

香川県 · Art & museums

Ogijima and Megijima

高松市高松

Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.

香川県 · Art & museums

Yashima

高松市高松

A flat lava plateau jutting into the sea, crowned by a temple and painted for centuries as a battlefield.

香川県 · Art & museums

Hiraga Gennai Museum

さぬき市東讃

For the inventor Hiraga Gennai, whose kiln pressed maps and Western pictures onto the surface of pottery.

香川県 · Art & museums

Bota-ori Cloth

高松市高松

Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Lanterns

高松市高松

Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.

香川県 · Art & museums

Olive Groves of Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

Where olives first took root in Japan; terraces cut into the slopes give the island a Mediterranean look.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kotohiki Park

観音寺市西讃

A viewpoint built on the hill so the sand coin below can be read - the vantage point completing the work.

香川県 · Art & museums

Teshima and its Waste

土庄町東讃

An island known for illegal industrial dumping became a festival site - and how openly that history is handled remains at issue.