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和歌山県 · Art & museums

Wakayama Castle

和歌山市紀北

Three eras of stone-stacking technique stand within one castle, built from a local greenish schist.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan

高野町高野

Kukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Koyasan Reihokan Museum

高野町高野

The treasures of the whole mountain; Unkei's eight youthful attendants are unmatched as wrathful figures in boyish form.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Okunoin, Koyasan

高野町高野

Over 200,000 memorials under ancient cedars - two kilometres in which the whole history of Japanese stone monuments is ranked.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kongo Sanmaiin

高野町高野

A pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Negoroji

岩出市紀北

Japan's largest wooden pagoda of its type, spared in Hideyoshi's burning - its pillars still show musket holes.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kokawadera

紀の川市紀北

A Momoyama garden of massive upright stones built into the slope before the hall - a composition without parallel.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Dojoji

日高川町紀中

The temple of the bell legend, where the story is still narrated aloud from a painted scroll, as it has been for centuries.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Hongu Taisha

田辺市紀中

The centre of the Kumano shrines; on the old river-island site now stands only a 34-metre torii.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Hayatama Taisha

新宮市紀南

A thousand objects made for the gods and never used - Muromachi craft surviving as if new.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Nachi Taisha and Seiganto-ji

那智勝浦町紀南

A vermilion pagoda and a 133-metre waterfall in one frame - the fused Shinto-Buddhist landscape left intact.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kumano Kodo Nakahechi

田辺市紀中

A pilgrim road walked by emperors and peasants alike, its ninety-nine wayside shrines turning distance into devotion.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Fudarakusanji

那智勝浦町紀南

From here monks were sealed alive into small boats and set adrift toward the southern sea; a replica boat stands in the grounds.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Niutsuhime Shrine

かつらぎ町高野

Dedicated to the deity said to have granted the land for Koyasan; its arched vermilion bridge stands in a mountain clearing.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Jisonin and the Choishi Michi

九度山町高野

Stone markers set every 109 metres up the mountain road - 180 of them over twenty kilometres, the path itself made form.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Lacquerware

海南市紀北

Red lacquer over black, so wear reveals the black beneath - a craft that treats use itself as the finishing process.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kuroe District

海南市紀北

Plots were divided on the diagonal, so the houses step along the street like saw teeth.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Chests

和歌山市紀北

Built in paulownia with almost no metal; the fit is so tight that pushing one drawer pushes another out.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Fishing Rods

橋本市高野

Bamboo from the Koyasan slopes joined through dozens of stages - treated less as tackle than as lacquerwork.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Hoda Paper

有田川町紀中

A domain-sponsored paper that died out and was reconstructed by local people from surviving records.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Kishu Binchotan Charcoal

みなべ町紀中

Fired above a thousand degrees until it rings like metal when struck; every maker draws the kiln differently.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Ryujin Lacquerware

田辺市紀中

Lacquer from a hot-spring valley, made from timber and sap taken off the same mountains.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Minakata Kumagusu Museum

白浜町紀南

A naturalist who studied slime moulds and fought to save sacred forests; his drawings and notebooks survive.

和歌山県 · Art & museums

Minakata Kumagusu Archives

田辺市紀中

His house and library kept as they were - including the way the books were piled.