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高知県 · Art & museums

Coastal Erosion of Tosa Bay

高知市中央

The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.

高知県 · Art & museums

Doi Kachu, Aki

安芸市東部

A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kagura of Monobe

香美市東部

A mountain valley keeping a rite descended from Onmyodo, whose paper-cut implements have a form of their own.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tea Halls of Yusuhara

梼原町西部

Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.

高知県 · Art & museums

Paper Products of Tosa

いの町中央

A paper province that also made the goods; thickness and fibre are varied for each intended use.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Castle Town

高知市中央

Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.

高知県 · Art & museums

Sakawa Brewery Town

佐川町中央

A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.

高知県 · Art & museums

Stone Guardians of Tosa

高知市中央

Local masons' habits show in these guardian lions, most set low to survive typhoons.

高知県 · Art & museums

Terraces of the Upper Shimanto

津野町西部

Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.

高知県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Nakatosa

中土佐町中央

A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.

高知県 · Art & museums

Farmland of the Konan Plateau

四万十町西部

Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.

高知県 · Art & museums

Sunsets of Sukumo

宿毛市西部

In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.

高知県 · Art & museums

River Boats of the Shimanto

四万十市西部

Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.

高知県 · Art & museums

Mt Godai

高知市中央

Temple, botanical garden and viewpoint share one hill - faith, science and landscape on the same ground.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Fighting Dogs and Festival Form

高知市中央

Fighting dogs are dressed in embroidered aprons modelled on sumo champions' - a rare case of ceremonial textile on an animal.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Art Museum

福岡市福岡

A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

福岡市福岡

The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

福岡市福岡

Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kyushu National Museum

太宰府市福岡

Japan's fourth national museum, framed to show Japanese culture as it formed through exchange with the rest of Asia.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka City Museum

福岡市福岡

Holds the gold seal a farmer dug up in 1784 - 2.3 centimetres of metal that anchors the start of recorded Japanese history.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Dazaifu Tenmangu

太宰府市福岡

Head shrine of all Tenmangu; its temporary hall, by Sou Fujimoto, carries a living grove on its roof.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kanzeonji

太宰府市福岡

Its bell, among the oldest in Japan, still rings; the treasury holds five-metre figures from when this was Kyushu's Buddhist centre.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Textiles

福岡市福岡

Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Dolls

福岡市福岡

Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.