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徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Shijira Cloth

徳島市東部

Woven at uneven tension and then shrunk, so the surface puckers and touches the skin less - a cloth for heat.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Odori Kaikan

徳島市東部

On a dance four centuries old, where each troupe's matched coats and hats work as its emblem.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Tokushima Castle Museum

徳島市東部

A Momoyama garden built from the province's blue-green schist, composed from the colour and shape of the stone alone.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Puppet Theatre

徳島市東部

Indigo wealth planted puppet theatre in the villages; dozens of their open-air stages still survive and still perform.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Puppet Heads

徳島市東部

Carved larger than Bunraku's so they read from a distance outdoors; the master Tengukyu's heads are still in use.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Inukai Rural Stage

徳島市東部

A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Otani Ware

鳴門市東部

Great jars thrown on a wheel kicked by a man lying on his back while another shapes the clay - a method born of indigo vats.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Naruto German House

鳴門市東部

A First World War POW camp where the prisoners ran presses and workshops - and gave Japan its first performance of Beethoven's Ninth.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Udatsu Street, Wakimachi

美馬市西部

An indigo trading town where the firewalls between houses grew ever taller as displays of wealth.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Two-Tier Udatsu of Sadamitsu

つるぎ町西部

Firewalls stacked in two tiers - a form found in this town alone, sometimes coloured in the plaster.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Iya Vine Bridge

三好市西部

A suspension bridge woven from mountain vine and rebuilt entirely every three years, so the skill can never lapse.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Ochiai Village

三好市西部

Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Washi

吉野川市東部

Thirteen centuries of papermaking, and now a workshop that makes oversized and custom sheets for artists worldwide.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awagami Factory

吉野川市東部

Kept the hand technique and developed washi for inkjet printing - an old craft finding a current use.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Kamiyama Artist in Residence

神山町東部

A mountain village of 5,000 that has hosted artists for over twenty years; their works remain scattered through it.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center

上勝町東部

Built from windows and doors salvaged across the town, and laid out in plan as a question mark.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Earth Pillars

阿波市東部

Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Wasanbon Sugar

上板町東部

Sugar kneaded by hand and pressed into carved wooden moulds - the moulds themselves carved down the generations.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Tokushima Prefectural Museum

徳島市東部

The province's general museum, organised around its blue-green stone and the society indigo built.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Bunka no Mori Park

徳島市東部

Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Ryozenji, Temple One

鳴門市東部

The start of a 1,400-kilometre pilgrimage, where the white robe, sedge hat and staff are first assembled.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Yakuoji

美波町南部

Stairs counted out to match the unlucky years of life, and a tower at the top open to the sea.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Naruto Whirlpools

鳴門市東部

Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Indigo Merchants of Mima

美馬市西部

The storehouses of the indigo traders, built to hold the temperature and damp the fermentation needs.