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愛媛県 · Art & museums

Iyo Kasuri

松山市中予

Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Himedaruma Dolls

松山市中予

A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ishiteji

松山市中予

The 51st pilgrimage temple; its Kamakura gate is a National Treasure, its bracketing still forceful.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru

新居浜市東予

Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Paper Town Museum

四国中央市東予

In the city with Japan's highest output of paper products, covering everything from hand sheets to machine rolls.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ozu Washi

内子町南予

Made since the Heian period; thin sheets that take ink evenly, used for calligraphy practice.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kites of Ikazaki

内子町南予

Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ushioni of Uwajima

宇和島市南予

A six-metre papier-mache beast with an ox's body and a demon's head, its neck stretched to poke into the eaves.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kuma Museum of Art

久万高原町中予

A museum in a mountain town, built on modern oil paintings gathered by a local businessman.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kirosan Observatory

今治市東予

Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Imabari Castle

今治市東予

Built on the sea with saltwater moats - Todo Takatora's design joining harbour and fortress as one.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Dogo Art

松山市中予

An art festival through a hot-spring town, where artists remake inn rooms as works you sleep in.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kashima Island

松山市中予

Seen from the shore it reads as a green mass floating on the sea - the archetype of an Inland Sea view.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Uwa Rice Museum

西予市南予

A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Mt Ishizuchi

西条市東予

The highest peak in western Japan, climbed on three sets of hanging chains provided as part of the pilgrimage.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Artesian Wells of Saijo

西条市東予

Three thousand wells rise of their own pressure through the town - water built into the streets themselves.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Iyo Mizuhiki

四国中央市東予

A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Terraced Fields of Yawatahama

八幡浜市南予

Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea - said to be cultivated all the way to heaven.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Date Family of Uwajima

宇和島市南予

Ruled by a branch of the Sendai Date house; its armour and furnishings share motifs with the main family's.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Ozu Historic Streets

大洲市南予

A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Coopers of Ehime

内子町南予

Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Kagura of Nanyo

西予市南予

Dances in animal masks - deer above all - with each village's masks carved differently.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Shipyards of Imabari

今治市東予

Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.

愛媛県 · Art & museums

Haiku in the Streets of Matsuyama

松山市中予

Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.