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岡山県 · Art & museums

Fukiya Village

高梁市備中

A copper and red-ochre town where every house is painted in the pigment it made, under matching red tiles.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Fukiya Bengara Museum

高梁市備中

The making of red iron-oxide pigment, which went into Kutani porcelain and Wajima lacquer alike.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Hirokane Residence

高梁市備中

Castle-scale stone walls raised on a mountainside to carry one house - copper and pigment money made visible.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bitchu Matsuyama Castle

高梁市備中

The highest of Japan's twelve surviving keeps, its walls built straight onto the natural rock.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Raikyuji Garden

高梁市備中

An early garden by Kobori Enshu, made in his twenties: clipped azalea as waves, stones as islands.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Denchu Art Museum

井原市備中

For a sculptor who carved until he was 107, and who past a hundred bought thirty years' worth of timber.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Hanatori Otsuka Museum

井原市備中

Centred on the bird-and-flower painter Kinjima Keika, in a small private museum built as one with its garden.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Chikkyo Art Museum

笠岡市備中

For a painter of the Inland Sea in high-keyed colour, and the museum lets you watch him leave his teacher's manner behind.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Yakage-juku

矢掛町備中

The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bitchu Kokubunji

総社市備中

A five-storey pagoda standing alone in farmland, an Edo tower on a Nara temple site - two eras in one view.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Katsuyama and its Noren

真庭市美作

One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Katsuyama Bamboo Craft

真庭市美作

Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Lucky Cat Museum

岡山市備前

In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Ujobori Carving

岡山市備前

Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bitchu Washi

倉敷市備中

Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Tamashima District

倉敷市備中

A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Kofun of the Kibi Road

岡山市備前

The fourth-largest keyhole tomb in Japan, and climbable because it is not an imperial grave - evidence Kibi rivalled the capital.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Hiruzen Highlands

真庭市美作

Grassland kept open by burning it every year - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum

津山市美作

A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Saidaiji Eyo Festival

岡山市備前

Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Bizen Swords

瀬戸内市備前

The largest of Japan's five sword traditions; roughly half of all National Treasure blades were forged here.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Kurashiki Ivy Square

倉敷市備中

An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Kojima Torajiro

倉敷市備中

The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.

岡山県 · Art & museums

Takahashi Samurai District

高梁市備中

Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.