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鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kagoshima City Museum of Art

鹿児島市鹿児島

This province sent an unusual number of painters into Japanese modern art; the museum collects them systematically.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Reimeikan Museum

鹿児島市鹿児島

On the castle site; because this province destroyed its Buddhist art more thoroughly than any other, it also records what was lost.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Nagashima Museum

鹿児島市鹿児島

On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sengan-en

鹿児島市鹿児島

The volcano stands in for the garden's hill and the bay for its pond - borrowed scenery on the largest scale in Japan.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shoko Shuseikan

鹿児島市鹿児島

Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Satsuma Ware

日置市鹿児島

Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Miyama Pottery Village

日置市鹿児島

The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Satsuma Cut Glass

鹿児島市鹿児島

Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Chiran Samurai District

南九州市南薩

Seven of its samurai gardens are designated scenic, their clipped hedges borrowing the mountain behind.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Chiran Peace Museum

南九州市南薩

On the airfield they flew from, holding the letters teenage pilots left - the handwriting itself part of the record.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Izumi Fumoto Samurai District

出水市霧島

A fumoto - the Satsuma domain's own form of samurai settlement - of 150 houses on a grid, the largest in the province.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Iriki Fumoto

薩摩川内市鹿児島

Walls built from rounded river cobbles - a distinctive technique, since nothing in them has a flat face.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kirishima Shrine

霧島市霧島

Burned repeatedly by eruptions and rebuilt by the Shimazu lords; designated National Treasure in 2022.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Uenohara Jomon Forest

霧島市霧島

A settled village 9,500 years old, which rewrote assumptions about when people in Japan stopped moving.

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.