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香川県 · Art & museums

Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands

丸亀市中讃

An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Fuji and its Reservoirs

丸亀市中讃

Fourteen thousand reservoirs were dug across this dry plain; the cones of its hills and those artificial ponds compose it.

香川県 · Art & museums

Manno Reservoir

まんのう町中讃

Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.

香川県 · Art & museums

Tange Buildings in Takamatsu

高松市高松

Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.

香川県 · Art & museums

Terraces of Teshima

土庄町東讃

Abandoned terraces were brought back into cultivation alongside the museum's construction, so field and artwork share one view.

香川県 · Art & museums

Lion Dances of Sanuki

高松市高松

Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.

香川県 · Art & museums

Honmura Village, Naoshima

直島町東讃

A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kankakei Gorge

小豆島町東讃

Volcanic rock eroded into towers and cliffs, each formation named along the route.

香川県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Mure

高松市高松

A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.

香川県 · Art & museums

Arcades of Takamatsu

高松市高松

Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art

松山市中予

Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Matsuyama Castle

松山市中予

One of twelve surviving keeps, ringed by lesser towers and defended by stone walls climbing the slope itself.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Dogo Onsen Honkan

松山市中予

A working public bath that is also an Important Cultural Property, extended so often that its interior became a maze.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo

松山市中予

Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Shiki Memorial Museum

松山市中予

For the poet who modernised haiku by preaching sketching from life; his own drawings and sickbed manuscripts survive.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Bansuiso

松山市中予

A French-Renaissance villa built by a descendant of the local lords, its stairwell filled with stained glass.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Oyamazumi Shrine Treasure Hall

今治市東予

Around eighty percent of all Japan's designated armour is in this one shrine, dedicated by sea warriors after each victory.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture

今治市東予

Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Tokoro Museum Omishima

今治市東予

Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum

今治市東予

A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Imabari Towels

今治市東予

Yarn is bleached before weaving so it keeps its loft, in water soft enough to make that possible.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kikuma Roof Tiles

今治市東予

Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Sakurai Lacquerware

今治市東予

Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uchikoza Theatre

内子町南予

Built by townspeople to mark an emperor's accession, saved from demolition by campaign, and still playing.