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愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uchiko Historic District

内子町南予

Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kamihaga Residence

内子町南予

A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Garyu Sanso

大洲市南予

Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ozu Castle

大洲市南予

Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uwajima Castle

宇和島市南予

Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Tenshaen

宇和島市南予

The Date crest was bamboo, so the garden is planted with many kinds; the wisteria is set to reflect in the pond.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Unomachi Historic District

西予市南予

A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kaimei School

西予市南予

A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ehime Museum of History and Culture

西予市南予

A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Tobe Ware

砥部町中予

Porcelain begun from whetstone waste: thick, hard to chip, and painted freehand in blue arabesque.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Iyo Kasuri

松山市中予

Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Himedaruma Dolls

松山市中予

A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ishiteji

松山市中予

The 51st pilgrimage temple; its Kamakura gate is a National Treasure, its bracketing still forceful.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru

新居浜市東予

Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Paper Town Museum

四国中央市東予

In the city with Japan's highest output of paper products, covering everything from hand sheets to machine rolls.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ozu Washi

内子町南予

Made since the Heian period; thin sheets that take ink evenly, used for calligraphy practice.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kites of Ikazaki

内子町南予

Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ushioni of Uwajima

宇和島市南予

A six-metre papier-mache beast with an ox's body and a demon's head, its neck stretched to poke into the eaves.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kuma Museum of Art

久万高原町中予

A museum in a mountain town, built on modern oil paintings gathered by a local businessman.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kirosan Observatory

今治市東予

Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Imabari Castle

今治市東予

Built on the sea with saltwater moats - Todo Takatora's design joining harbour and fortress as one.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Dogo Art

松山市中予

An art festival through a hot-spring town, where artists remake inn rooms as works you sleep in.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kashima Island

松山市中予

Seen from the shore it reads as a green mass floating on the sea - the archetype of an Inland Sea view.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uwa Rice Museum

西予市南予

A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.