鳥取県 · Art & museums
Tottori Prefectural Museum
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
At the foot of the castle hill, holding the Ikeda lords' furnishings and the province's art.
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鳥取県 · Art & museums
Jinpukaku
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
A white timber villa by the architect of the Akasaka Palace, with an unsupported spiral stair in its hall.
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Watanabe Art Museum
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
Thirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.
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Inshu Washi
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
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Ushinoto Ware
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
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Nakai Kiln
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
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Tottori Sand Dunes
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
Wind redraws the ripple patterns every night - a design remade daily, and photographed for a century.
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The Sand Museum
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
The only museum in the world for sand sculpture; each year's works are destroyed and returned to sand when the show closes.
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Nageiredo of Sanbutsuji
三朝町 中部
A hall in a cliff hollow that nobody can explain the building of - legend says an ascetic threw it there.
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Kurayoshi White-Walled Storehouses
倉吉市 中部
White walls and red Sekishu tiles along a canal, each household with its own stone bridge across to its storehouse.
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Kurayoshi Kasuri
倉吉市 中部
Landscapes and birds woven from tie-dyed thread; the technique died out and was reconstructed by a preservation society.
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Yonago City Museum of Art
米子市 伯耆（西部）
A small municipal museum, steady in showing local artists and printmaking.
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Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography
伯耆町 伯耆（西部）
For the photographer who staged figures on the dunes; a window frames Mt Daisen as if through his own lens.
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Mizuki Shigeru Road
境港市 伯耆（西部）
A hundred and seventy-seven bronze monsters along 800 metres of street - comic characters installed as public sculpture.
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Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
境港市 伯耆（西部）
Original pages showing how he drew backgrounds in obsessive detail and figures in almost none.
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Yumihama Kasuri
境港市 伯耆（西部）
Kasuri woven from cotton grown on the sand spit, its lucky motifs boldly simplified into pattern.
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Daisenji
大山町 伯耆（西部）
Over a hundred sub-temples once filled this mountain; the stone paving and terraces still show the scale.
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Mukibanda Site
大山町 伯耆（西部）
One of Japan's largest Yayoi settlements, found just before a golf course was built and saved by local campaigning.
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Aoya Kamijichi Site
鳥取市 因幡（東部）
Groundwater preserved wooden and lacquered objects in quantity - a rare chance to see Yayoi lacquer work directly.
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Kamiyodo Temple Site
米子市 伯耆（西部）
Fragments of wall painting contemporary with Horyuji's - proof the provinces held work of capital quality.
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Ishitani Residence
智頭町 因幡（東部）
A timber baron's forty-room house, its earthen hall crossed by tier upon tier of local cedar beams.
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Itaibara Village
智頭町 因幡（東部）
A mountain hamlet no road ever reached, its board roofs and stone terraces unchanged since the 1950s.
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Inkyuzan Ware
八頭町 因幡（東部）
A former domain kiln still firing in a climbing kiln, using the same local clay and ash glaze.
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Wakasa Railway Stations
若桜町 因幡（東部）
The original 1930 wooden stations, turntable and water tower survive along the line, listed together.
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