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愛媛県 · Art & museums

Mt Ishizuchi

西条市東予

The highest peak in western Japan, climbed on three sets of hanging chains provided as part of the pilgrimage.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Artesian Wells of Saijo

西条市東予

Three thousand wells rise of their own pressure through the town - water built into the streets themselves.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Iyo Mizuhiki

四国中央市東予

A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Terraced Fields of Yawatahama

八幡浜市南予

Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea - said to be cultivated all the way to heaven.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Date Family of Uwajima

宇和島市南予

Ruled by a branch of the Sendai Date house; its armour and furnishings share motifs with the main family's.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ozu Historic Streets

大洲市南予

A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Coopers of Ehime

内子町南予

Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kagura of Nanyo

西予市南予

Dances in animal masks - deer above all - with each village's masks carved differently.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Shipyards of Imabari

今治市東予

Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Haiku in the Streets of Matsuyama

松山市中予

Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Citrus Groves of Omishima

今治市東予

Citrus terraces cover the island's slopes; Toyo Ito has worked here on tying farming back to architecture.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Cormorant Fishing on the Hiji

大洲市南予

On winter mornings a river fog pours down to the sea; the river changes character with the season.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Pilgrimage Temples of Nanyo

宇和島市南予

The southern temples lie deep in the hills, where the paved pilgrim road and its distance markers survive longest.

高知県 · Art & museums

The Museum of Art, Kochi

高知市中央

Among Japan's major Chagall holdings, in a building faced with local plaster and tile, and fitted with a Noh stage.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center

高知市中央

The photographer whose images of Katsura changed how Japanese architecture is seen; all 34,000 of his works came here.

高知県 · Art & museums

Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum

高知市中央

On a headland with galleries cantilevered over the Pacific, holding letters whose handwriting breaks into something like drawing.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Castle

高知市中央

The only castle in Japan keeping both its keep and its main palace, fitted with stone spouts against the heavy rain.

高知県 · Art & museums

Makino Botanical Garden

高知市中央

Holds the botanist Makino's exacting plant drawings, under timber roofs that Naito made ripple along the slope.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Museum of History

南国市中央

On the Chosokabe clan's castle site, covering medieval Tosa and the province's folk material.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ekin Gura

香南市中央

The blood-soaked theatre screens of the late-Edo painter Ekin, shown in a darkened storehouse by near-candlelight.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ekin Festival, Akaoka

香南市中央

For two nights a year the screens are set out along the shopfronts and lit only by candles - as they were meant to be seen.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Washi

いの町中央

Its tengujo is the thinnest handmade paper in the world - 0.03 mm - and is used to conserve artworks globally.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ino Paper Museum

いの町中央

On the river that made the paper, following the process from bark to the thinnest sheet in the world.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Blades

香美市東部

Forged without templates, each blade shaped to its order - a trade built on hatchets and sickles for mountain work.