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鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sakurajima

鹿児島市鹿児島

Lava from the 1914 eruption filled the strait and turned an island into a peninsula - a landform change fully documented.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Stone Bridge Memorial Park

鹿児島市鹿児島

Stone arches nearly lost to flood, dismantled and rebuilt here - the work of Kumamoto masons hired into Satsuma.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sogi Power Station Ruins

伊佐市霧島

A brick power station drowned by a dam; when the water drops it surfaces whole - a ruin visible only a few months a year.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Tanaka Isson Memorial Museum

奄美市離島

A painter who moved here at fifty, worked as a dyer to fund his painting, sold almost nothing, and was recognised only after death.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Oshima Tsumugi Silk

奄美市離島

Thread dyed with a local shrub and then trodden into iron-rich mud to blacken; the kasuri threads are themselves woven first on a separate loom.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Mud Dyeing of Amami

奄美市離島

Plant dye and mud alternated more than twenty times to reach a black no chemical dye can match.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Yakushima Forest

屋久島町離島

Vegetation stacked from subtropical to subarctic by altitude alone; even the logged stumps have grown second trees.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Yakusugi Woodcraft

屋久島町離島

Only stumps left by Edo-period logging may be used; no living tree is cut, and the timber is three centuries old before it starts.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kawanabe Butsudan

南九州市南薩

Satsuma banned Buddhism outright for a time; altars were made in secret, and when the ban lifted that skill became an industry.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Tanegashima Gun Museum

西之表市離島

The matchlock that arrived in 1543 beside the copies local smiths made - and the record of how the screw thread defeated them.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Tanegashima Scissors

西之表市離島

Gunsmithing turned to scissors; the blades are not joined but folded from a single piece of iron.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Koshikijima Villages

薩摩川内市鹿児島

Cobble walls line the island lanes; houses sit low inside them against the typhoons.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kaseda Fumoto

南さつま市南薩

Cobble walls and hedges in a samurai settlement - a village form produced by Satsuma's system of scattered garrisons.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kamo Fumoto and the Great Camphor

姶良市鹿児島

Japan's largest camphor tree, 24 metres around, stands in the shrine at the centre of the samurai settlement.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Terayama Charcoal Kiln and Sekiyoshi Sluice

鹿児島市鹿児島

The kiln that made the furnace's fuel and the channel that brought its water - the supporting infrastructure, included in the listing.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Reviving Satsuma Glass

鹿児島市鹿児島

A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma

鹿児島市鹿児島

In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shiroyama and the Castle Walls

鹿児島市鹿児島

Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami

奄美市離島

Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Takakura Granaries of Amami

奄美市離島

Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Oshima Tsumugi Village

奄美市離島

The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Volcanic Landscape of Kirishima

霧島市霧島

Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sand Baths of Ibusuki

指宿市南薩

Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

The Fumoto Village Form

出水市霧島

Instead of one castle, samurai were settled in over a hundred fortified villages across the province.