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鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Tanegashima Scissors

西之表市離島

Gunsmithing turned to scissors; the blades are not joined but folded from a single piece of iron.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Koshikijima Villages

薩摩川内市鹿児島

Cobble walls line the island lanes; houses sit low inside them against the typhoons.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kaseda Fumoto

南さつま市南薩

Cobble walls and hedges in a samurai settlement - a village form produced by Satsuma's system of scattered garrisons.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Kamo Fumoto and the Great Camphor

姶良市鹿児島

Japan's largest camphor tree, 24 metres around, stands in the shrine at the centre of the samurai settlement.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Terayama Charcoal Kiln and Sekiyoshi Sluice

鹿児島市鹿児島

The kiln that made the furnace's fuel and the channel that brought its water - the supporting infrastructure, included in the listing.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Reviving Satsuma Glass

鹿児島市鹿児島

A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma

鹿児島市鹿児島

In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shiroyama and the Castle Walls

鹿児島市鹿児島

Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami

奄美市離島

Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Takakura Granaries of Amami

奄美市離島

Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Oshima Tsumugi Village

奄美市離島

The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Volcanic Landscape of Kirishima

霧島市霧島

Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sand Baths of Ibusuki

指宿市南薩

Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

The Fumoto Village Form

出水市霧島

Instead of one castle, samurai were settled in over a hundred fortified villages across the province.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Metalwork of Satsuma

鹿児島市鹿児島

Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

White Satsuma

日置市鹿児島

Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Black Satsuma

日置市鹿児島

The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Subtropical Forest of Amami

奄美市離島

Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Bullfighting of Tokunoshima

徳之島町離島

Each hamlet keeps its own bull; the harness and rope designs work as the village's emblem.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Shibushi District

志布志市大隅

A port that also held a samurai settlement, its stone walls and hedges in the Satsuma manner.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Burial Mounds of Osumi

鹿屋市大隅

Southern Kyushu has its own burial type - a shaft dug down and a chamber cut sideways, found nowhere else.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Sendai Fumoto

薩摩川内市鹿児島

River cobbles walling off each plot - the technique of stacking round stone shared across this district.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki

枕崎市南薩

Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.

鹿児島県 · Art & museums

Yoron Island

与論町離島

Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.