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広島県 · Art & museums

Irifuneyama Memorial Museum

呉市安芸

A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.

広島県 · Art & museums

Kumano Brushes

熊野町安芸

Eight in ten Japanese brushes; the hair tips are never cut, so the point forms itself.

広島県 · Art & museums

Kawajiri Brushes

呉市安芸

Hair blended in water rather than dry; a brush town specialising in calligraphy alongside Kumano.

広島県 · Art & museums

Fuchu Furniture

府中市備後

A wedding-furniture town where the trades divide the work and compete on the precision of the joinery.

広島県 · Art & museums

Bingo Kasuri

福山市備後

One of Japan's three great kasuri districts; its toughness made it workwear, and the town later turned to denim.

広島県 · Art & museums

Fukuyama Koto

福山市備後

Over sixty percent of Japan's koto; the sound is cut into the paulownia body as a pattern of grooves inside the lid.

広島県 · Art & museums

Hirayama Ikuo Museum of Art

尾道市備後

Born on this island and a survivor of the bomb; the museum runs from his boyhood sketches to his last large works.

広島県 · Art & museums

Kosanji and the Hill of Hope

尾道市備後

A businessman built it for his mother, copying famous temples across Japan, and crowned the hill with a garden of white marble.

広島県 · Art & museums

Shimanami Kaido Bridges

尾道市備後

Seven bridges hopping island to island, each a different structural type - a working catalogue of bridge form.

広島県 · Art & museums

Surviving Bomb-Damaged Buildings

広島市安芸

Buildings that stood through the blast, still in use with their cracks and heat scars left visible.

広島県 · Art & museums

Geihoku Kagura

安芸高田市備北

Descended from the Iwami tradition, with serpents and demons whose robes cost millions and whose masks are made of paper.

広島県 · Art & museums

Mihara Castle Town

三原市備後

Called the floating castle because the tide reached its walls; the stonework now sits beneath the railway station.

広島県 · Art & museums

Former Naval Academy, Etajima

江田島市安芸

A naval academy built from bricks shipped in from England, its identical blocks a finished form of Meiji officialdom.

広島県 · Art & museums

Okunoshima Ruins

竹原市備後

An island once erased from maps; the concrete remains of its poison-gas works are kept, overgrown, as record.

広島県 · Art & museums

Great Torii of Itsukushima

廿日市市安芸

Not sunk into the seabed but held by its own weight and ballast alone - so it can be lifted out and replaced.

広島県 · Art & museums

Fukuyama Castle

福山市備後

A turret moved here from Fushimi survives; its keep was armoured with iron plate on the north face alone.

広島県 · Art & museums

Onomichi in Film

尾道市備後

Filmed again and again from Ozu onward; the same slope and level crossing keep reappearing in different decades.

広島県 · Art & museums

Hiroshima Butsudan

広島市安芸

Gilded altars grown from a strongly Pure Land region, finished by six separate trades in sequence.

広島県 · Art & museums

Taishakukyo Gorge

庄原市備北

A ninety-metre natural bridge left where limestone dissolved away - a structure built by water alone.

広島県 · Art & museums

Sandankyo Gorge

安芸太田町安芸

Sixteen kilometres of granite gorge, with stretches passable only by ferry between vertical walls.

広島県 · Art & museums

Mt Misen

廿日市市安芸

The whole island was sacred, so the forest was never cut; boulders pile at the summit where belief and terrain meet.

広島県 · Art & museums

Oyster Rafts of Hiroshima Bay

広島市安芸

Rafts laid out in ranks across the bay - four centuries of oyster farming drawing geometry on the water.

広島県 · Art & museums

Shipyards of Kure

呉市安芸

The docks that built battleships still work; the rank of giant cranes states the scale directly.

広島県 · Art & museums

Warehouse Reuse in Onomichi

尾道市備後

Harbour warehouses and abandoned hillside houses repaired one at a time by residents - preservation by accumulation.