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山口県 · Art & museums

Rurikoji Pagoda

山口市中部

One of Japan's three finest pagodas; its cypress-bark roofs thin and curve as the storeys taper upward.

山口県 · Art & museums

Sesshu Garden, Joeiji

山口市中部

Attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, and read as applying the composition of painting to stone and water.

山口県 · Art & museums

Xavier Memorial Church

山口市中部

Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.

山口県 · Art & museums

Ouchi Lacquerware

山口市中部

Made by the Ouchi lords for trade with Ming China: gold lozenges and autumn grasses on vermilion.

山口県 · Art & museums

Tokuji Washi

山口市中部

Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.

山口県 · Art & museums

Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum

山口市中部

For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.

山口県 · Art & museums

Hagi Castle Town

萩市北浦（萩）

An Edo map still works as a street map here; the citrus behind every wall was planted to support unemployed samurai.

山口県 · Art & museums

Hagi Ware

萩市北浦（萩）

Begun by Korean potters brought here by force; the crazed glaze absorbs tea, so each bowl changes colour with use.

山口県 · Art & museums

Hagi Museum

萩市北浦（萩）

Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.

山口県 · Art & museums

Shokasonjuku Academy

萩市北浦（萩）

Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.

山口県 · Art & museums

Hagi Reverberatory Furnace

萩市北浦（萩）

A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.

山口県 · Art & museums

Ebisugahana Shipyard

萩市北浦（萩）

Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.

山口県 · Art & museums

Oitayama Tatara Iron Works

萩市北浦（萩）

The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.

山口県 · Art & museums

Kikuya Residence

萩市北浦（萩）

Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.

山口県 · Art & museums

Kintaikyo Bridge

岩国市東部

Five wooden arches built to survive floods, assembled almost without nails and rebuilt every twenty years.

山口県 · Art & museums

Iwakuni Castle

岩国市東部

A mountain castle and a valley residence linked by the bridge; the rebuilt keep overhangs its lower storey.

山口県 · Art & museums

Shimonoseki City Art Museum

下関市西部

In the birthplace of Kano Hogai, who pushed Nihonga into the modern era; the museum traces how he got there.

山口県 · Art & museums

Kozanji

下関市西部

The oldest dated Zen-style hall in Japan, its roof sharply curved over fan-set rafters.

山口県 · Art & museums

Akama Shrine

下関市西部

Dedicated to the child emperor drowned at Dannoura, its vermilion gate modelled on an undersea palace.

山口県 · Art & museums

Chofu District

下関市西部

The castle town of a Mori branch house, its lanes walled in tile-laced earth between temples and samurai houses.

山口県 · Art & museums

UBE Biennale

宇部市西部

Japan's first international open-air sculpture competition; sixty years of prize works have filled the park.

山口県 · Art & museums

Akama Inkstone

宇部市西部

Cut from a fine-grained local stone that grinds ink smoothly, its edges carved with dragons and pines.

山口県 · Art & museums

Mori Museum

防府市中部

The Mori family mansion itself, holding Sesshu's sixteen-metre landscape scroll, shown each autumn.

山口県 · Art & museums

Hofu Tenmangu

防府市中部

Said to be the first shrine to Michizane; one hall began as a pagoda and was converted mid-construction.