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香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Wasanbon Sugar

東かがわ市東讃

Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.

香川県 · Art & museums

Village Kabuki Stages of Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.

香川県 · Art & museums

Nakayama Rice Terraces

小豆島町東讃

Eight hundred paddies stacked up a slope, with a kabuki stage among them - farming and theatre in one view.

香川県 · Art & museums

Soy Sauce Village, Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.

香川県 · Art & museums

Ogijima and Megijima

高松市高松

Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.

香川県 · Art & museums

Yashima

高松市高松

A flat lava plateau jutting into the sea, crowned by a temple and painted for centuries as a battlefield.

香川県 · Art & museums

Hiraga Gennai Museum

さぬき市東讃

For the inventor Hiraga Gennai, whose kiln pressed maps and Western pictures onto the surface of pottery.

香川県 · Art & museums

Bota-ori Cloth

高松市高松

Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Lanterns

高松市高松

Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.

香川県 · Art & museums

Olive Groves of Shodoshima

小豆島町東讃

Where olives first took root in Japan; terraces cut into the slopes give the island a Mediterranean look.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kotohiki Park

観音寺市西讃

A viewpoint built on the hill so the sand coin below can be read - the vantage point completing the work.

香川県 · Art & museums

Teshima and its Waste

土庄町東讃

An island known for illegal industrial dumping became a festival site - and how openly that history is handled remains at issue.

香川県 · Art & museums

Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands

丸亀市中讃

An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.

香川県 · Art & museums

Sanuki Fuji and its Reservoirs

丸亀市中讃

Fourteen thousand reservoirs were dug across this dry plain; the cones of its hills and those artificial ponds compose it.

香川県 · Art & museums

Manno Reservoir

まんのう町中讃

Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.

香川県 · Art & museums

Tange Buildings in Takamatsu

高松市高松

Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.

香川県 · Art & museums

Terraces of Teshima

土庄町東讃

Abandoned terraces were brought back into cultivation alongside the museum's construction, so field and artwork share one view.

香川県 · Art & museums

Lion Dances of Sanuki

高松市高松

Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.

香川県 · Art & museums

Honmura Village, Naoshima

直島町東讃

A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.

香川県 · Art & museums

Kankakei Gorge

小豆島町東讃

Volcanic rock eroded into towers and cliffs, each formation named along the route.

香川県 · Art & museums

Stonemasons of Mure

高松市高松

A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.

香川県 · Art & museums

Arcades of Takamatsu

高松市高松

Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.

香川県 · Regional selections

Japan Dolphin Center

東讃

A centre in Sanuki where you can meet dolphins.

香川県 · Regional selections

Ancient Sauna Karafuro

東讃

An old-style sauna in Sanuki: a stone chamber fired with wood and warmed by steam.