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佐賀県 · Art & museums

Kyushu Ceramic Museum

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

The largest systematic collection of Kyushu ceramics, tracing Arita porcelain unbroken from the 1600s to now.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Arita Porcelain

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Izumiyama Quarry

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Four centuries of digging removed an entire mountain; the white cliff left behind records what the industry did to the land.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Arita Uchiyama District

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Tozan Shrine

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Kakiemon Kiln

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Its milk-white body and sparing use of colour were copied across Europe and shaped Meissen's own style.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Imaemon Kiln

有田町西部（有田・伊万里）

Hereditary enamellers to the Nabeshima lords, keeping a technique where ink drawn on the glaze burns away and leaves white.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Okawachiyama, the Nabeshima Domain Kiln

伊万里市西部（有田・伊万里）

To stop the technique leaking, the potters were confined in a walled valley with a checkpoint, firing only for the shogun.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Iro-Nabeshima Porcelain

伊万里市西部（有田・伊万里）

Made only as gifts and never for sale, so nothing was compromised; even the underside and foot ring follow a fixed standard.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Karatsu Ware

唐津市唐津

Ranked third among tea wares after Raku and Hagi; its coarse clay and quick iron-drawn grasses were chosen for their plainness.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Karatsu Kunchi Floats

唐津市唐津

Floats built from hundreds of layers of paper finished in lacquer and gold - light, strong, and still hauled after two centuries.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Karatsu Float Exhibition Hall

唐津市唐津

All fourteen floats on permanent view, close enough to read the depth of the lacquer.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Former Takatori Residence

唐津市唐津

A coal baron's house with a Noh stage built into it, and 72 painted cedar doors, no two rooms alike.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Former Karatsu Bank

唐津市唐津

Kingo Tatsuno, born here, oversaw this for his home town, and his pupil drew it in the master's manner.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Nagoya Castle Ruins

唐津市唐津

Built in a single year as the base for invading Korea, ringed by 130 lords' camps - and abandoned seven years later.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Niji no Matsubara

唐津市唐津

A million pines planted as a windbreak four centuries ago, now a designated Place of Special Scenic Beauty.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Yoshinogari Site

吉野ヶ里町佐賀

Japan's largest Yayoi settlement, its moats, palisades and watchtowers reconstructed across forty hectares.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Saga Castle History Museum

佐賀市佐賀

Japan's first full timber reconstruction of a castle palace, including a 320-mat hall rebuilt with few columns.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Chokokan Museum

佐賀市佐賀

A private museum built by the Nabeshima family, holding photographs the domain itself took in the 1860s.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Mietsu Naval Dock Site

佐賀市佐賀

Where Japan's first working steamship was built; the timber dock survives underground and is deliberately left buried.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Mifuneyama Rakuen

武雄市西部（有田・伊万里）

A lord's garden three years in the making, now overlaid each summer night by teamLab's light works.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Takeo Onsen Gate

武雄市西部（有田・伊万里）

Tatsuno built this vermilion gate at home; eight zodiac animals are carved in its ceiling - the missing four turned up in Tokyo Station.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Hizen Hamashuku

鹿島市南部（鹿島・小城）

Two streets preserved side by side: one of white-walled breweries, one of thatched townhouses.

佐賀県 · Art & museums

Yutoku Inari Shrine

鹿島市南部（鹿島・小城）

Halls lifted on vermilion posts against a steep slope, built to be looked up at from below.