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福岡県 · Art & museums

Fukuoka City Museum

福岡市福岡

Holds the gold seal a farmer dug up in 1784 - 2.3 centimetres of metal that anchors the start of recorded Japanese history.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Dazaifu Tenmangu

太宰府市福岡

Head shrine of all Tenmangu; its temporary hall, by Sou Fujimoto, carries a living grove on its roof.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kanzeonji

太宰府市福岡

Its bell, among the oldest in Japan, still rings; the treasury holds five-metre figures from when this was Kyushu's Buddhist centre.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Textiles

福岡市福岡

Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Dolls

福岡市福岡

Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Hakata Gion Yamakasa

福岡市福岡

Two kinds of float: one thirteen metres tall to be looked at, one built to be run with - and their design logic differs entirely.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kushida Shrine

福岡市福岡

Where the float festival begins; one decorated float stands here all year, so the doll-makers' work is always visible.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Tochoji

福岡市福岡

Said to be the first temple Kukai founded in Japan; its 10.8-metre wooden Buddha took four years to carve in the 1990s.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

北九州市北九州

Two square tubes projecting horizontally from a hilltop - nicknamed the binoculars, and a key early Isozaki.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Mojiko Retro District

北九州市北九州

A cluster of buildings from the port's trading heyday; its timber station was the first in Japan made an Important Cultural Property.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Imperial Steel Works, Yahata

北九州市北九州

Where Japanese heavy industry began; its red-brick head office survives inside a still-working steelworks.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum

北九州市北九州

The novelist's Tokyo house rebuilt full size, library and all, down to how the papers were piled.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kitakyushu Manga Museum

北九州市北九州

Built around local artists including the creator of Galaxy Express 999, with 60,000 volumes free to read.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kokura Castle

北九州市北九州

Its top storey overhangs the one below - the 'Chinese style' keep - beside a reconstructed shoin and garden.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kurume City Art Museum

久留米市筑後

At the heart of a cultural centre the Bridgestone founder gave his home town, built around two painters born here.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Kurume Kasuri

久留米市筑後

Said to have been invented by a twelve-year-old girl who noticed the pattern in a faded cloth; now an Important Intangible Cultural Property.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit

大牟田市筑後

The steel headframe of a pit that fuelled Japan's industrialisation - including its reliance on convict labour.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Canals of Yanagawa

柳川市筑後

Four hundred and seventy kilometres of canal serving daily life, farming and defence at once - saved from being filled in by residents.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Tachibana Family Garden, Ohana

柳川市筑後

A daimyo villa whose pond stands for the sea, ringed by 280 pines, with Western and Japanese wings joined.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Yame Fukushima District

八女市筑後

A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Yame Fukushima Butsudan

八女市筑後

Built inside like a miniature temple, and finished by seven separate trades in sequence.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Yame Lanterns

八女市筑後

A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Koishiwara Ware

東峰村筑後

Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.

福岡県 · Art & museums

Takatori Ware

東峰村筑後

Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.