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愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art

松山市中予

Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Matsuyama Castle

松山市中予

One of twelve surviving keeps, ringed by lesser towers and defended by stone walls climbing the slope itself.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Dogo Onsen Honkan

松山市中予

A working public bath that is also an Important Cultural Property, extended so often that its interior became a maze.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo

松山市中予

Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Shiki Memorial Museum

松山市中予

For the poet who modernised haiku by preaching sketching from life; his own drawings and sickbed manuscripts survive.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Bansuiso

松山市中予

A French-Renaissance villa built by a descendant of the local lords, its stairwell filled with stained glass.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Oyamazumi Shrine Treasure Hall

今治市東予

Around eighty percent of all Japan's designated armour is in this one shrine, dedicated by sea warriors after each victory.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture

今治市東予

Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Tokoro Museum Omishima

今治市東予

Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum

今治市東予

A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Imabari Towels

今治市東予

Yarn is bleached before weaving so it keeps its loft, in water soft enough to make that possible.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kikuma Roof Tiles

今治市東予

Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Sakurai Lacquerware

今治市東予

Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uchikoza Theatre

内子町南予

Built by townspeople to mark an emperor's accession, saved from demolition by campaign, and still playing.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uchiko Historic District

内子町南予

Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kamihaga Residence

内子町南予

A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Garyu Sanso

大洲市南予

Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ozu Castle

大洲市南予

Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uwajima Castle

宇和島市南予

Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Tenshaen

宇和島市南予

The Date crest was bamboo, so the garden is planted with many kinds; the wisteria is set to reflect in the pond.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Unomachi Historic District

西予市南予

A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kaimei School

西予市南予

A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ehime Museum of History and Culture

西予市南予

A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Tobe Ware

砥部町中予

Porcelain begun from whetstone waste: thick, hard to chip, and painted freehand in blue arabesque.