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高知県 · Art & museums

Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center

高知市中央

The photographer whose images of Katsura changed how Japanese architecture is seen; all 34,000 of his works came here.

高知県 · Art & museums

Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum

高知市中央

On a headland with galleries cantilevered over the Pacific, holding letters whose handwriting breaks into something like drawing.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Castle

高知市中央

The only castle in Japan keeping both its keep and its main palace, fitted with stone spouts against the heavy rain.

高知県 · Art & museums

Makino Botanical Garden

高知市中央

Holds the botanist Makino's exacting plant drawings, under timber roofs that Naito made ripple along the slope.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Museum of History

南国市中央

On the Chosokabe clan's castle site, covering medieval Tosa and the province's folk material.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ekin Gura

香南市中央

The blood-soaked theatre screens of the late-Edo painter Ekin, shown in a darkened storehouse by near-candlelight.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ekin Festival, Akaoka

香南市中央

For two nights a year the screens are set out along the shopfronts and lit only by candles - as they were meant to be seen.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Washi

いの町中央

Its tengujo is the thinnest handmade paper in the world - 0.03 mm - and is used to conserve artworks globally.

高知県 · Art & museums

Ino Paper Museum

いの町中央

On the river that made the paper, following the process from bark to the thinnest sheet in the world.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Blades

香美市東部

Forged without templates, each blade shaped to its order - a trade built on hatchets and sickles for mountain work.

高知県 · Art & museums

Yanase Takashi Memorial Museum

香美市東部

For the creator of Anpanman, who found his great subject in his mid-fifties, and who was also a poet.

高知県 · Art & museums

Submersible Bridges of the Shimanto

四万十市西部

Bridges built without railings, designed to be submerged by floods rather than resist them.

高知県 · Art & museums

The Shimanto River

四万十市西部

No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kengo Kuma Buildings in Yusuhara

梼原町西部

Six Kuma buildings in a mountain village of three thousand, each designed outward from locally sourced cedar and thatch.

高知県 · Art & museums

Yusuhara Community Library

梼原町西部

Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.

高知県 · Art & museums

Monet's Garden Marmottan

北川村東部

Giverny recreated in a mountain valley with the foundation's blessing - and here the blue water lilies Monet never got actually bloom.

高知県 · Art & museums

Nora Dokei

安芸市東部

A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Plaster and Drip Tiles

安芸市東部

Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.

高知県 · Art & museums

Uchiharano Ware

安芸市東部

Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.

高知県 · Art & museums

Cape Muroto

室戸市東部

Each earthquake lifts the coast a little more, leaving terraces - a global geopark where the ground's movement is legible.

高知県 · Art & museums

Hotsumisakiji

室戸市東部

Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tatsukushi Coast

土佐清水市西部

Sandstone eaten by wind and wave into honeycombs and marbled surfaces - a shoreline carved by weather.

高知県 · Art & museums

Cape Ashizuri

土佐清水市西部

Granite cliffs at Shikoku's southern tip, reached through a tunnel of camellia branches.

高知県 · Art & museums

John Manjiro Museum

土佐清水市西部

A castaway who reached America and returned as an interpreter; copies of the phrasebook he made survive.