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大分県 · Art & museums

Mameda District, Hita

日田市大分

A shogunal town enriched by moneylending, its merchant houses set on a grid.

大分県 · Art & museums

Kangien Academy Site

日田市大分

A private academy that stripped away rank, age and prior schooling at the door; five thousand students came from all Japan.

大分県 · Art & museums

Onta Ware

日田市大分

Ten families, each passing the kiln to one son, still crushing clay with river-driven hammers; Bernard Leach stayed and worked here.

大分県 · Art & museums

Water Hammers of Onta

日田市大分

Water-driven hammers crushing clay along the valley; their sound is listed among Japan's hundred soundscapes worth keeping.

大分県 · Art & museums

Kitsuki Castle Town

杵築市国東・宇佐

Samurai quarters on two ridges with the merchants in the valley between - a castle town whose section is said to be unique.

大分県 · Art & museums

Samurai Street of Saiki

佐伯市県南

A samurai quarter of continuous earthen walls, closed at one end by a surviving turret gate.

大分県 · Art & museums

Yabakei Gorge

中津市国東・宇佐

Lava eroded into a run of pillars and walls; the scholar Rai Sanyo named it and made it famous through his writing.

大分県 · Art & museums

Himeshima

姫島村国東・宇佐

An obsidian source since the Palaeolithic, supplying tool stone across the inland sea.

大分県 · Art & museums

Bungo Nanga Painting

竹田市大分

Literati painting took root around Taketa, where picture, poem and calligraphy share one sheet.

大分県 · Art & museums

Himedaruma of Taketa

竹田市大分

A papier-mache daruma in female form, drawn from a samurai wife's story and still made by one family.

大分県 · Art & museums

Hita Cedar and Woodwork

日田市大分

Cedar planted under direct shogunal management; at one point this town made more wooden clogs than anywhere in Japan.

大分県 · Art & museums

Stone Monuments of Kunisaki

国東市国東・宇佐

Stone Buddhas and pagodas scattered across the whole peninsula - the soft tuff made carving easy and the tradition dense.

大分県 · Art & museums

Taketa Castle Town

竹田市大分

A town in a tuff-walled basin, where tunnels bored through the cliffs serve as ordinary streets.

大分県 · Art & museums

Breweries of Usuki

臼杵市県南

A castle town built on brewing; its black-boarded warehouses still line the lanes and still ferment.

大分県 · Art & museums

Kagura of Bungo

豊後大野市県南

Each hamlet has its own troupe, repairing and reusing masks whose carving betrays which troupe they belong to.

大分県 · Art & museums

Harajiri Falls

豊後大野市県南

A 120-metre-wide falls opening abruptly in flat farmland, cut by the river into a plateau of Aso's own ash.

大分県 · Art & museums

Cliff Buddhas of Bungo Ono

豊後大野市県南

Cliff carvings across the province; with Usuki, Oita has the densest concentration of them in Japan.

大分県 · Art & museums

Nakatsu Castle

中津市国東・宇佐

A sea-water castle where two lords' stonework meets in one wall - and the difference in how they laid it is visible.

大分県 · Art & museums

The Hells of Beppu

別府市大分

Pools of hot water divided into blue, red and white by their chemistry - geology showing its colours directly.

大分県 · Art & museums

Mt Yufu

由布市大分

A twin-peaked mountain facing the basin; on autumn mornings fog fills the valley and only the summit shows.

大分県 · Art & museums

Rivers of Hita

日田市大分

A town in a basin ringed by rivers, grown on boat traffic and still viewed from the water.

大分県 · Art & museums

Bamboo Artists of Oita

別府市大分

Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.

大分県 · Art & museums

Votive Plaques of Usa

宇佐市国東・宇佐

As head shrine it drew offerings from all Japan; the pictures on its votive plaques show what each era prayed for.

大分県 · Art & museums

Villages of Kunisaki

国東市国東・宇佐

A dry peninsula riddled with reservoirs, its stone-walled homesteads set between them.