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熊本県 · Art & museums

Manda Pit

荒尾市熊本

The largest pit of the Miike mine, its steel headframe and brick winding house standing as they worked.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Misumi West Port

宇城市熊本

A Dutch engineer's design executed by Amakusa masons - the only Meiji port surviving complete, quay, canal and bridges.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Tsujunkyo Aqueduct

山都町阿蘇

A stone aqueduct built to water a dry plateau; to clear its pipes it blasts water from both sides - the first civil structure made a National Treasure…

熊本県 · Art & museums

Minamata Disease Museum

水俣市八代

On industrial poisoning and how it was recorded - including the role photography, notably Eugene Smith's, actually played.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Shodai Ware

荒尾市熊本

White straw-ash glaze ladled over a dark iron body - a kiln the Hosokawa lords opened with Korean potters.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Kikuchi Gorge

菊池市熊本

Rain that fell on Aso resurfaces here; light through the canopy and the water compose differently each season.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Amakusa Shiro and the Rebellion

上天草市天草

The record of a rebellion led by a sixteen-year-old; its banners and crosses carry both faith and revolt at once.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Tomioka Castle Ruins

苓北町天草

A castle built on a sand spit, using the narrow strip of land between two seas as its defence.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Higo Temari Balls

熊本市熊本

Geometric patterns stitched over a ball; a pastime of the lords' daughters that became a common toy.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Shochu Distilleries of Hitoyoshi

人吉市人吉・球磨

Five centuries of rice shochu; the timber distilleries along the river have been repaired after each flood and kept working.

熊本県 · Art & museums

The Kuma River

人吉市人吉・球磨

One of Japan's three swiftest rivers; the 2020 flood reshaped its valley and reopened the question of how close to live.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Yamaga Streets

山鹿市熊本

A post town whose street of shops and bathhouses still centres on its theatre.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Terraces of South Aso

南阿蘇村阿蘇

Rice fields on a caldera floor, watered by the springs that surface all across it.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Contemporary Architecture of Kumamoto

熊本市熊本

Public housing from the Artpolis programme, scattered across the province and judged by how people go on living in it.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Churches of Amakusa

天草市天草

Churches scattered through island villages, each paid for by its own congregation once the ban was lifted.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Stone Bridges of the Taneyama Masons

宇城市熊本

The masons who built Tsujunkyo left dozens of arches across the province, each betraying their school in how it is laid.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Kikuchi Fortress

山鹿市熊本

A mountain fort raised after a defeat abroad, against an invasion that never came; its octagonal tower is rebuilt.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Kagura of Higo

阿蘇市阿蘇

Fire is swung in circles at Aso's rites; each village's masks are carved differently and repaired down the years.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Shiranui of the Yatsushiro Sea

芦北町八代

On one night of the lunar calendar a mirage lines the sea with fires - recorded since antiquity, and the source of a place name.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Bamboo and Wood of Kumamoto

熊本市熊本

A bamboo province making baskets and farm tools, their forms arrived at purely through use.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Porcelain Stone Quarries of Amakusa

天草市天草

White quarry faces cut into the hills; the porcelain of Arita is made of stone carried away from here.

熊本県 · Art & museums

The Buzen Highway

山鹿市熊本

The road between Kumamoto and Kokura; its post towns keep enough houses to read the highway's scale.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Stone Figures of Tamana

玉名市熊本

Stone figures set around burial mounds, carved from Aso welded tuff and found almost only in northern Kyushu.

熊本県 · Art & museums

Great Camphors of Uto

宇土市熊本

Thousand-year camphors in shrine precincts; Kyushu keeps an unusual number of these giants.