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高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Sunday Market

高知市中央

A street market held for over three centuries; once a week a city avenue changes character entirely.

高知県 · Art & museums

Yosakoi Festival

高知市中央

Invented after the war to lift a depressed city; each team makes its own costume and music, and the form spread nationwide.

高知県 · Art & museums

Katsurahama Beach

高知市中央

A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.

高知県 · Art & museums

Chikurinji

高知市中央

The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.

高知県 · Art & museums

Hirome Market

高知市中央

Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.

高知県 · Art & museums

The Niyodo River

仁淀川町西部

Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Coral Carving

高知市中央

Red coral from these waters, carved over months by hands working a material that shatters if pushed.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tosa Papermaking Workshops

いの町中央

To make paper 0.03 mm thick the screen itself must be woven that fine - the precision starts with the tools.

高知県 · Art & museums

Thatched Villages of the Shimanto

四万十市西部

Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.

高知県 · Art & museums

Butsudan of Tosa

高知市中央

Rich forests made this a woodworking province; its altars pass through carving, lacquer and gilding in turn.

高知県 · Art & museums

Coastal Erosion of Tosa Bay

高知市中央

The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.

高知県 · Art & museums

Doi Kachu, Aki

安芸市東部

A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kagura of Monobe

香美市東部

A mountain valley keeping a rite descended from Onmyodo, whose paper-cut implements have a form of their own.

高知県 · Art & museums

Tea Halls of Yusuhara

梼原町西部

Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.

高知県 · Art & museums

Paper Products of Tosa

いの町中央

A paper province that also made the goods; thickness and fibre are varied for each intended use.

高知県 · Art & museums

Kochi Castle Town

高知市中央

Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.

高知県 · Art & museums

Sakawa Brewery Town

佐川町中央

A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.

高知県 · Art & museums

Stone Guardians of Tosa

高知市中央

Local masons' habits show in these guardian lions, most set low to survive typhoons.

高知県 · Art & museums

Terraces of the Upper Shimanto

津野町西部

Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.

高知県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Nakatosa

中土佐町中央

A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.

高知県 · Art & museums

Farmland of the Konan Plateau

四万十町西部

Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.

高知県 · Art & museums

Sunsets of Sukumo

宿毛市西部

In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.

高知県 · Art & museums

River Boats of the Shimanto

四万十市西部

Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.

高知県 · Art & museums

Mt Godai

高知市中央

Temple, botanical garden and viewpoint share one hill - faith, science and landscape on the same ground.