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島根県 · Art & museums

Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum

松江市松江・隠岐

For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.

島根県 · Art & museums

Matsue Castle

松江市松江・隠岐

A National Treasure keep built for war: its columns are wrapped in boards and banded with iron throughout.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shiomi Nawate

松江市松江・隠岐

Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.

島根県 · Art & museums

Meimean Tea House

松江市松江・隠岐

Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.

島根県 · Art & museums

Kandenan

松江市松江・隠岐

A tea house and garden in a retainer's grounds, its path laid so the slope looks untouched.

島根県 · Art & museums

Yakumo Lacquerware

松江市松江・隠岐

Pictures painted in coloured lacquer and covered with clear coats; as the years pass the top clears and the picture brightens.

島根県 · Art & museums

Fujina Ware

松江市松江・隠岐

Its slip technique resembles English country pottery; Bernard Leach came here, and the exchange went both ways.

島根県 · Art & museums

Izumo Taisha

出雲市出雲

The oldest shrine form in Japan; giant triple pillars dug up here support the claim that it once stood 48 metres tall.

島根県 · Art & museums

Kojindani Site

出雲市出雲

Three hundred and fifty-eight swords buried in four neat rows on one slope; nobody knows why.

島根県 · Art & museums

Kamo Iwakura Site

雲南市出雲

Thirty-nine bronze bells buried nested one inside another - the largest such find in Japan.

島根県 · Art & museums

Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine

大田市石見

Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.

島根県 · Art & museums

Omori District

大田市石見

Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.

島根県 · Art & museums

Yunotsu

大田市石見

A silver port and a hot-spring town at once, and the only port designated a preservation district.

島根県 · Art & museums

Sekishu Ware

江津市石見

Great water jars fired so hard they resist salt and acid, sold to kitchens and pickling sheds all over Japan.

島根県 · Art & museums

Iwami Art Museum, Grand Toit

益田市石見

Hiroshi Naito clad walls and roof alike in 280,000 local red tiles, wrapped around a courtyard pool.

島根県 · Art & museums

Gardens of Sesshu

益田市石見

Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.

島根県 · Art & museums

Tsuwano Historic District

津和野町石見

Carp swim in the channels beside the street of this castle town, its plan unchanged in a narrow mountain basin.

島根県 · Art & museums

Anno Art Museum

津和野町石見

For a picture-book artist known worldwide for books without words, in a tile-roofed building by Hiroshi Naito.

島根県 · Art & museums

Mori Ogai Memorial Museum

津和野町石見

For the army surgeon and novelist; the house he lived in until he was ten stands beside it.

島根県 · Art & museums

Taikodani Inari Shrine

津和野町石見

A thousand vermilion gates climb the hillside in a single line above the town.

島根県 · Art & museums

Iwami Kagura

浜田市石見

Gold-embroidered robes and a serpent built from rolled paper - costume, mask and beast all made by local craftsmen.

島根県 · Art & museums

Hamada Children's Museum of Art

浜田市石見

Collects and exhibits children's own drawings, and does not separate the making from the looking.

島根県 · Art & museums

Wako Museum

安来市松江・隠岐

On tatara ironmaking, which produced the steel for Japanese swords using only iron sand and charcoal.

島根県 · Art & museums

Okuizumo Tatara and Sword Museum

奥出雲町出雲

The only place still smelting tamahagane for swords, in a furnace fired continuously for three days and nights.