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佐賀県 · Art & museums

Ozaki Clay Dolls

神埼市佐賀

Said to descend from Mongol prisoners of the 13th-century invasions; its dove whistles died out and were revived.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Yumino Dolls

武雄市西部（有田・伊万里）

Large, strongly coloured clay dolls in the Hakata manner, kept going by a single workshop and its moulds.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Tonbai Walls of Arita

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Arita Ceramic Fair

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Four kilometres of stalls and half a million visitors - the whole district's output visible in one week.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Imari Port District

伊万里市西部（有田・伊万里）

Arita porcelain shipped from this port, which is why the world came to call it Imari instead.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Tidal Flats of the Ariake Sea

佐賀市佐賀

A six-metre tidal range leaves mud to the horizon, ranked with the geometric poles of the seaweed farms.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Creeks of the Saga Plain

佐賀市佐賀

A net of channels dug across reclaimed land to hold water; from the air the whole plain reads as a drawing.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Mt Kagami

唐津市唐津

A plateau from which pine forest, sea and castle fall into one view - a composition sung about since antiquity.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Nanatsugama Caves

唐津市唐津

Waves cut seven caves into columnar basalt; the pillar sections pattern the whole wall.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Butsudan of Saga

佐賀市佐賀

A strongly Pure Land region kept the altar trade alive, its lacquering, gilding and metalwork divided between hands.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Climbing Kiln Sites of Arita

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Chambered kilns stepped up the hillsides; the slope and the number of chambers decided the firing.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Nabeshima Dantsu Rugs

佐賀市佐賀

Cotton rugs knotted one stitch at a time as domain tribute; the craft lapsed and was reconstructed.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Christian Sites of Hizen

佐賀市佐賀

Christianity arrived early in this province; crosses and inscribed graves survive hidden among ordinary temples.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Ureshino Onsen and its Tea Fields

嬉野市西部（有田・伊万里）

Hot spring and tea district share one valley; the contour-planted fields fill the inn windows.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Contemporary Arita

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

At its 400th anniversary the district began pairing kilns with foreign designers - a tradition deliberately updating itself.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Karatsu Kilns and the Tataki Method

唐津市唐津

Clay compacted by beating with a paddle rather than thrown - a Korean method still in use here.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Saga Castle Town

佐賀市佐賀

The Nagasaki highway ran through here, carrying sugar and Western learning toward Edo.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Stone Bridges of Saga

佐賀市佐賀

Stone-arch technique spread inland from Nagasaki; the way each arch is laid identifies its mason's line.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Old Kilns of Hizen

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

The failed shards from these kilns date the styles - they carry more information than the finished pots.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Arita Porcelain Park

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

A replica of the Zwinger, built by the Saxon elector who bought Arita porcelain by the shipload - the export destination made visible.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum

長崎市長崎

Two blocks straddling a canal, joined by a bridge, holding Japan's foremost collection of Spanish art.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

長崎市長崎

The shogunal magistrate's office rebuilt in timber, housing the record of Japan's one open window on the world.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Oura Cathedral

長崎市長崎

Japan's oldest church and the only Western-style building designated National Treasure - where hidden Christians revealed themselves after 250 years.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Glover Garden

長崎市長崎

Nine Western houses gathered on a hillside above the harbour, including the oldest Western-style timber building in Japan.