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大分県 · Art & museums

Bamboo Artists of Oita

別府市大分

Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.

大分県 · Art & museums

Votive Plaques of Usa

宇佐市国東・宇佐

As head shrine it drew offerings from all Japan; the pictures on its votive plaques show what each era prayed for.

大分県 · Art & museums

Villages of Kunisaki

国東市国東・宇佐

A dry peninsula riddled with reservoirs, its stone-walled homesteads set between them.

大分県 · Art & museums

Funai and its Christian Past

大分市大分

The town of a Christian daimyo, with a church and hospital - among the first Japanese cities to take in European culture.

大分県 · Art & museums

Communal Bathhouses of Oita

別府市大分

Over a hundred bathhouses in Beppu are run by neighbourhood associations - plain buildings whose form follows who manages them.

大分県 · Art & museums

Takeyoi Festival, Usuki

臼杵市県南

Twenty thousand bamboo lanterns cut and lit along the streets, so the town's plan appears as lines of light.

大分県 · Art & museums

Sculptors of Bungo

豊後高田市国東・宇佐

A peninsula far from the capital that kept many Heian and Kamakura images - enough to compare provincial hands.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum

宮崎市宮崎

Home of Ei-Q, who made images by laying objects straight onto photographic paper; this is the fullest collection of his work.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyazaki Prefectural Museum

宮崎市宮崎

With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Haniwa Garden, Heiwadai Park

宮崎市宮崎

Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Saitobaru Burial Mounds

西都市宮崎

Three hundred and nineteen mounds across a plateau, kept as grassland so their shapes stay readable as terrain.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Saitobaru Archaeological Museum

西都市宮崎

Buried underground so as not to disturb the mounds, and unusual in letting visitors handle some of the finds.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Takachiho Night Kagura

高千穂町県北

Thirty-three dances performed through the night in ordinary houses, in masks repaired and reused for generations.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Amano Iwato Shrine

高千穂町県北

Worship is directed not at a hall but at a cave across the river; nearby, stones piled by visitors have accumulated into a landscape.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Takachiho Gorge

高千穂町県北

Columnar joints from cooling Aso ash form seven kilometres of vertical wall, best seen looking up from a boat.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Udo Shrine

日南市県南

A vermilion shrine standing inside a sea cave, under a rock ceiling with the Pacific breaking outside.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Obi Castle Town

日南市県南

A castle town of cedar fences and stone walls, the first in Kyushu designated a preservation district.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Obi Cedar

日南市県南

Resinous and water-resistant, this cedar was prized for ship timber, and the domain lived on managing its forests.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Aoshima and the Devil's Washboard

宮崎市宮崎

Alternating sandstone and mudstone eroded into regular ridges that ring the island at low tide.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Mimitsu District

日向市県北

A port trading with Osaka, and so lined with Kyoto-style townhouses rarely seen elsewhere in Kyushu.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Hososhima

日向市県北

A natural harbour ringed by hills, keeping its shipping agents' houses and paved lanes.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Miyakonojo Bows

都城市都城

Bamboo and sumac laminated with hide glue through over two hundred steps; most Japanese bamboo bows are made here.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Takanabe Daishi

高鍋町宮崎

One man began carving in his sixties and spent thirty years cutting 700 stone figures over a burial ground - untrained, and overwhelming in number.

宮崎県 · Art & museums

Sadowara Clay Dolls

宮崎市宮崎

Clay dolls counted among the sources of the Kyushu tradition, still made from Edo-period moulds.