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沖縄県 · Art & museums

Markets of Naha

那覇市本島南部

Markets and alleys descended from the postwar black market - unplanned, endlessly extended, and still trading.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Utaki Sacred Groves

南城市本島南部

No buildings: a grove or a rock is the sacred place, marked by nothing but a stone incense holder - hundreds of them across the islands.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Kudaka Island

南城市本島南部

The island of the Ryukyuan creation myth, where land is still held communally rather than owned by individuals.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Arayachi and Jouyachi

那覇市本島南部

Storage jars are left unglazed and tableware glazed - the use deciding the firing, with nothing in between.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Ryukyu Dance Costume

那覇市本島南部

Dance the court developed to entertain Chinese envoys; its bingata costumes are coloured to carry from a stage.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Eisa

沖縄市本島中部

Danced by each village's young men's association; the drum shape and costume colour tell you which village at a glance.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Koza and the American Era

沖縄市本島中部

A shopping district built under US administration; its English signage and American forms remain as a visible layer.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Sabani Boats

糸満市本島南部

Planks sewn together with cord and bamboo pegs; because it can be re-sewn when it splits, it went far out to sea.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Villages of Nakijin

今帰仁村本島北部

A screen wall stands just inside each gate to block sight and wind - a Chinese device that took its own form here.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Farmland of Miyakojima

宮古島市宮古

With no rivers, the island built walls underground to hold water - invisible engineering that made its farming possible.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Iriomote Island

竹富町八重山

Nine-tenths forest, its rivers lined with mangrove, and people confined to a thin strip along the shore.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Yonaguni Island

与那国町八重山

Stepped rock formations underwater whose artificial or natural origin is still argued - and the argument has become their character.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Trade and Craft of the Ryukyu Kingdom

那覇市本島南部

A palace bell declares the kingdom a bridge between all nations by ship - and its crafts arrived along those same routes.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Postwar Art of Okinawa

那覇市本島南部

Under occupation, painters formed their own village, living by selling pictures to American servicemen while making their own work.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Masonry of the Gusuku

中城村本島中部

Stones cut into polygons and interlocked without gaps - a Ryukyuan method built on a different idea from mainland walling.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Jiro Kinjo and Okinawan Mingei

読谷村本島中部

Known for fish and shrimp cut in line; found by the mingei leaders, he became Okinawa's first Living National Treasure.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Art of Ryukyu

那覇市本島南部

The royal temple burned in 1945 and only its gate survives; most of Ryukyuan Buddhist art was lost with it.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Former Ogimi Village Office

大宜味村本島北部

The oldest reinforced concrete building left in Okinawa, and one that stood through the shelling of 1945.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Gardens of Ryukyu

那覇市本島南部

Porous Ryukyuan limestone stacked among subtropical planting - neither the material nor the plants of a mainland garden.

北海道 · Regional selections

Ten ni Tsuzuku Michi (the Road to Heaven)

知床・網走・紋別エリア

A road that runs dead straight across the hills of Shari. It holds its line for some 28 kilometres, and the far end appears to dissolve into the sky.

北海道 · Regional selections

Shirogane Blue Pond

富良野・美瑛近郊エリア

A pond created as a by-product of works built to hold back volcanic mudflows. Minerals dissolved in the water scatter the light, and the depth of blue…

北海道 · Regional selections

Mount Yotei (Ezo Fuji)

小樽・ニセコ近郊エリア

Its even cone has earned it the name Ezo Fuji. Spring water is abundant around its base and has long supplied the villages below.

北海道 · Regional selections

Shikaribetsu-ko Kotei Senro

十勝・帯広エリア

The highest lake in Hokkaido. It freezes over in winter, and the ice formations that appear on its surface have become a fixture of the season.

北海道 · Regional selections

Kamui Misaki

小樽・ニセコ近郊エリア

The tip of the Shakotan Peninsula. A narrow path follows the ridge of a cliff about 80 metres high, with sea on both sides.