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長崎県 · Art & museums

Hasami Ware

波佐見町佐世保・県北

Porcelain made cheap enough for ordinary households - the ware that put porcelain on the Japanese table.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nakaoyama Kiln Site

波佐見町佐世保・県北

The remains of a 160-metre climbing kiln of 33 chambers - among the largest ever built anywhere.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Mikawachi Ware

佐世保市佐世保・県北

The Hirado domain kiln, known for Chinese children painted in blue and for pierced openwork carved into the body.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Matsura Historical Museum

平戸市佐世保・県北

In the lords' own residence, holding what the overseas trade brought in alongside their hawking and tea equipment.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Hirado Dutch Trading Post

平戸市佐世保・県北

The Dutch East India Company's post, older than Dejima; its stone warehouse - Japan's first Western masonry - has been rebuilt.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Hario Radio Towers

佐世保市佐世保・県北

Three concrete towers 136 metres tall standing in a triangle - a scale hard to credit for 1922, and still self-supporting.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Harunotsuji Site

壱岐市壱岐・対馬

Identified with a kingdom named in Chinese records; the oldest boat landing in Japan was found here.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Watazumi Shrine

対馬市壱岐・対馬

Two of its five gates stand in the sea; at high tide the approach vanishes and the shrine appears to float.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Tortoiseshell Work

長崎市長崎

Shell joined by heat and pressure alone, with no adhesive; the skill lies in reading which piece is clear enough.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Embroidery

長崎市長崎

Padded with cotton so dragons and lions stand out in relief, used on the hangings of the great autumn festival.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Kunchi

長崎市長崎

Dances shaped by Chinese and Dutch contact: a dragon from China, a ship carried on shoulders from the trading port's memory.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Siebold Memorial Museum

長崎市長崎

For the doctor who first catalogued Japan's plants and animals for the outside world, on the site of his own house.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Isahaya Spectacles Bridge

諫早市島原半島

Slated for removal after a flood, it was instead moved to a park - an early case of relocating a stone bridge to save it.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Kujukushima Islands

佐世保市佐世保・県北

Two hundred and eight islands scattered across an inland sea - the densest island group in Japan, reading as layered planes.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Unzen Hells

雲仙市島原半島

Sulphur vents breaking from the ground, and the place where Christians were executed.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Hirado Streets

平戸市佐世保・県北

From one slope a church spire appears over temple roofs - two faiths caught in a single frame.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Churches of the Goto Islands

五島市五島

Over fifty churches across these islands, most by one local master carpenter who mixed timber and brick into a form of his own.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Tetsukawa Yosuke's Churches

新上五島町五島

A carpenter who taught himself Western building and invented a way to raise rib vaults in timber.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Stone Roofs of Tsushima

対馬市壱岐・対馬

Sheds roofed with split stone, because the wind here tears thatch away.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Chinese Temples of Nagasaki

長崎市長崎

Four temples built by resident Chinese - a rare case of Chinese architecture arriving without passing through Japanese hands.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Hillside City of Nagasaki

長崎市長崎

Houses stacked in a bowl of hills, some slopes too steep for cars - so inclined lifts were installed to carry goods.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Springs of Shimabara

島原市島原半島

Groundwater from the volcano surfaces in the streets and carp swim the channels - disaster and benefit from the same mountain.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Nagasaki Prints

長崎市長崎

Souvenir prints of foreign ships and visitors - and the earliest Japanese pictures to use Western shading.

長崎県 · Art & museums

Former Naval Facilities of Sasebo

佐世保市佐世保・県北

A city built as a naval port, its brick warehouses and yards still ranged along the water.