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三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ueno Castle

伊賀市伊賀

Its stone wall rises thirty metres straight from the moat, among the highest in Japan.

三重県 · Art & museums

Basho Memorial Museum

伊賀市伊賀

In Basho's birthplace, showing his poem cards and travel drafts as calligraphy.

三重県 · Art & museums

Toba Sea-Folk Museum

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

The building that made Hiroshi Naito's name: timber-framed storehouses standing as strongly as what they hold.

三重県 · Art & museums

Mikimoto Pearl Island

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

Where cultured pearls first succeeded; its Meiji exhibition pieces come apart and reassemble into different ornaments.

三重県 · Art & museums

Saiku Historical Museum

明和町伊勢志摩

The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.

三重県 · Art & museums

Kumano Kodo Iseji

尾鷲市東紀州

Stone paving laid so the rain could not wash the path away - a structure built for walking that became the landscape.

三重県 · Art & museums

Hana no Iwaya

熊野市東紀州

No building at all: a 45-metre rock is the deity, and twice a year a rope is strung from its summit.

三重県 · Art & museums

Onigajo

熊野市東紀州

A kilometre of rock terraces cut by waves and lifted by earthquakes - a colonnade made without a hand.

三重県 · Art & museums

Pseudo-Western Buildings of Tsu

津市中勢

As the provincial capital, Tsu keeps Meiji public buildings in which local carpenters read Western style their own way.

三重県 · Art & museums

Okage Yokocho

伊勢市伊勢志摩

A street rebuilt in the gable-fronted form typical of Ise, showing how a pilgrimage town was shaped.

三重県 · Art & museums

Meoto Iwa

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Two sea rocks joined by a sacred rope; at the summer solstice the sun rises between them, completing the composition.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ria Coast of Shima

志摩市伊勢志摩

Drowned valleys forming a maze of inlets, across which pearl rafts lay out their regular artificial lines.

三重県 · Art & museums

Tado Taisha

桑名市北勢

Halls set along a mountain stream, with a rite in which horses charge straight up an earth bank.

三重県 · Art & museums

Akame Waterfalls

名張市伊賀

Four kilometres of continuous waterfalls, used as a training ground by mountain ascetics.

三重県 · Art & museums

Owase Cypress Forestry

尾鷲市東紀州

Cypress grown in one of Japan's wettest places; dense planting and thinning rule the slopes into pattern.

三重県 · Art & museums

Iga Ueno Castle Town

伊賀市伊賀

Streets deliberately bent at right angles for defence, the layout still as Todo Takatora planned it.

三重県 · Art & museums

Candles of Kameyama

亀山市中勢

A post town trading in candles and daily goods; the Japanese candle is wound from paper and rush pith.

三重県 · Art & museums

Tools of the Ama Divers

鳥羽市伊勢志摩

The gear of free-diving women, their cloth still stitched with star and grid marks to ward off harm.

三重県 · Art & museums

Ring Levees of Kuwana

桑名市北勢

Whole villages ringed by their own levees, each homestead keeping a stone-raised refuge building against flood.

三重県 · Art & museums

Industrial Landscape of Yokkaichi

四日市市北勢

A petrochemical complex that at night becomes an assembly of light - a landscape that also carries a pollution history.

三重県 · Art & museums

Gikakushi Paper of Ise

伊勢市伊勢志摩

Paper lacquered and embossed to pass as leather, made for pilgrims, lost, and recently reconstructed.

三重県 · Art & museums

Heian Buddhas of Mie

津市中勢

On the road between the capital and Ise, so small temples here keep an unusual number of Heian images.

三重県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Shima

志摩市伊勢志摩

Stone piled into the narrow inlets to make level ground, and houses set along it - a village shaped by terrain.

三重県 · Art & museums

Flood Works of Nagashima

桑名市北勢

Levees built by the Satsuma domain under shogunal order still divide three rivers and govern the terrain.