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鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Metalwork of Satsuma

鹿児島市鹿児島

Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

White Satsuma

日置市鹿児島

Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Black Satsuma

日置市鹿児島

The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Subtropical Forest of Amami

奄美市離島

Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Bullfighting of Tokunoshima

徳之島町離島

Each hamlet keeps its own bull; the harness and rope designs work as the village's emblem.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shibushi District

志布志市大隅

A port that also held a samurai settlement, its stone walls and hedges in the Satsuma manner.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Burial Mounds of Osumi

鹿屋市大隅

Southern Kyushu has its own burial type - a shaft dug down and a chamber cut sideways, found nowhere else.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sendai Fumoto

薩摩川内市鹿児島

River cobbles walling off each plot - the technique of stacking round stone shared across this district.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki

枕崎市南薩

Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Yoron Island

与論町離島

Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shochu Distilleries of Kagoshima

鹿児島市鹿児島

Fermenting jars are sunk into the floor, so the surrounding earth holds the temperature steady.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shimazu Patronage of Craft

鹿児島市鹿児島

The lords set pottery, glass and metal workshops in their own castle town and directed them personally.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum

那覇市本島南部

Walled in limestone like a Ryukyuan castle, holding both the kingdom's record and the systematic collection of postwar Okinawan art.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Sakima Art Museum

宜野湾市本島中部

A private museum on land reclaimed from a US base; its roof stair splits into six steps and twenty-three, for the 23rd of June.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Shuri Castle

那覇市本島南部

A palace mixing Chinese and Japanese form into something Ryukyuan; burned in 1945, rebuilt, burned again in 2019, and now rising a third time.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Tamaudun Mausoleum

那覇市本島南部

The royal mausoleum, its stone roof carved to imitate wooden shingles - the first building in Okinawa designated National Treasure.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Sonohyan Utaki Stone Gate

那覇市本島南部

Shaped as a gate but never walked through - a structure built purely so the king could pray at it before leaving the castle.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Shikinaen

那覇市本島南部

A royal villa built to receive Chinese envoys, setting a Chinese hexagonal pavilion in a Japanese stroll garden.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Tsuboya Pottery Street

那覇市本島南部

The quarter where the kingdom gathered all its kilns; it escaped the war, and workshops still line the paved street.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Tsuboya Pottery Museum

那覇市本島南部

A kiln found during construction was left in place and built around, shown underground beneath the galleries.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Ryukyu Bingata

那覇市本島南部

Stencilled paste resist with pigment rubbed in - a meeting of Chinese, Southeast Asian and Japanese dyeing, in colours built for southern light.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Shuri Textiles

那覇市本島南部

Woven for the royal house; one of its weaves could be worn only by the queen and princesses.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Ryukyu Lacquerware

那覇市本島南部

Its tsuikin technique - lacquer kneaded with pigment and applied like clay - exists nowhere else; the court ran the workshops.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Sanshin

那覇市本島南部

The Chinese sanxian became the sanshin here and the shamisen in Japan; its neck has seven named forms.