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高知県 · Art & museums

Yanase Takashi Memorial Museum

香美市東部

For the creator of Anpanman, who found his great subject in his mid-fifties, and who was also a poet.

高知県 · Art & museums

Submersible Bridges of the Shimanto

四万十市西部

Bridges built without railings, designed to be submerged by floods rather than resist them.

高知県 · Art & museums

The Shimanto River

四万十市西部

No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kengo Kuma Buildings in Yusuhara

梼原町西部

Six Kuma buildings in a mountain village of three thousand, each designed outward from locally sourced cedar and thatch.

高知県 · Art & museums

Yusuhara Community Library

梼原町西部

Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.

高知県 · Art & museums

Monet's Garden Marmottan

北川村東部

Giverny recreated in a mountain valley with the foundation's blessing - and here the blue water lilies Monet never got actually bloom.

高知県 · Art & museums

Nora Dokei

安芸市東部

A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Plaster and Drip Tiles

安芸市東部

Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.

高知県 · Art & museums

Uchiharano Ware

安芸市東部

Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.

高知県 · Art & museums

Cape Muroto

室戸市東部

Each earthquake lifts the coast a little more, leaving terraces - a global geopark where the ground's movement is legible.

高知県 · Art & museums

Hotsumisakiji

室戸市東部

Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tatsukushi Coast

土佐清水市西部

Sandstone eaten by wind and wave into honeycombs and marbled surfaces - a shoreline carved by weather.

高知県 · Art & museums

Cape Ashizuri

土佐清水市西部

Granite cliffs at Shikoku's southern tip, reached through a tunnel of camellia branches.

高知県 · Art & museums

John Manjiro Museum

土佐清水市西部

A castaway who reached America and returned as an interpreter; copies of the phrasebook he made survive.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Sunday Market

高知市中央

A street market held for over three centuries; once a week a city avenue changes character entirely.

高知県 · Art & museums

Yosakoi Festival

高知市中央

Invented after the war to lift a depressed city; each team makes its own costume and music, and the form spread nationwide.

高知県 · Art & museums

Katsurahama Beach

高知市中央

A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.

高知県 · Art & museums

Chikurinji

高知市中央

The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.

高知県 · Art & museums

Hirome Market

高知市中央

Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.

高知県 · Art & museums

The Niyodo River

仁淀川町西部

Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Coral Carving

高知市中央

Red coral from these waters, carved over months by hands working a material that shatters if pushed.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Papermaking Workshops

いの町中央

To make paper 0.03 mm thick the screen itself must be woven that fine - the precision starts with the tools.

高知県 · Art & museums

Thatched Villages of the Shimanto

四万十市西部

Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.

高知県 · Art & museums

Butsudan of Tosa

高知市中央

Rich forests made this a woodworking province; its altars pass through carving, lacquer and gilding in turn.