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島根県 · Art & museums

Sugaya Tatara Works

雲南市出雲

The only surviving furnace house of its kind, at the centre of a whole village built around making iron.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shussai Kiln

出雲市出雲

Started by five young men, guided by the mingei leaders, and still making unsigned everyday ware by policy.

島根県 · Art & museums

Former Taisha Station

出雲市出雲

Built to receive shrine pilgrims, so the station was designed as a temple rather than in Western style.

島根県 · Art & museums

Hinomisaki Shrine and Lighthouse

出雲市出雲

A vermilion shrine and a 43-metre stone lighthouse - Japan's tallest - on the same headland.

島根県 · Art & museums

Kounkaku

松江市松江・隠岐

A pseudo-Western hall inside the castle grounds, showing how provincial carpenters read Western ornament.

島根県 · Art & museums

Karakoro Art Studio

松江市松江・隠岐

A 1938 bank turned into craft studios, its vault now a gallery.

島根県 · Art & museums

Rengee Mai of Oki

隠岐の島町松江・隠岐

An ancient court dance lost on the mainland but preserved on the island, its masks and robes medieval.

島根県 · Art & museums

Bull Sumo of Oki

隠岐の島町松江・隠岐

Said to have begun to console an exiled emperor, and still ended in a deliberate draw.

島根県 · Art & museums

Kuniga Coast

西ノ島町松江・隠岐

A caldera rim drowned by the sea and cut into cliffs, with a rock arch left standing in the surf.

島根県 · Art & museums

Fudoki no Oka

松江市松江・隠岐

The places named in an 8th-century gazetteer are still where it says they are - text and ground still matching.

島根県 · Art & museums

Sweets and Tea of Matsue

松江市松江・隠岐

A tea-master lord's taste made this one of Japan's three great confectionery towns; the moulds are carvings in themselves.

島根県 · Art & museums

Red Tiles of Izumo

出雲市出雲

Glazed with a local stone that fires red, and tough enough for snow and sea wind - the tile that coloured this whole coast.

島根県 · Art & museums

Canals of Matsue

松江市松江・隠岐

The castle moat still functions as a working canal; boats lower their roofs to pass beneath the lowest bridges.

島根県 · Art & museums

Gakuenji

出雲市出雲

A hall built behind a waterfall, in a mountain temple long tied to the great shrine below.

島根県 · Art & museums

Mask and Costume Makers of Iwami

浜田市石見

Masks are built from layered paper to stay light for violent dancing; the embroidered robes can cost millions of yen.

島根県 · Art & museums

Heron Dance of Tsuwano

津和野町石見

Dancers wear heron wings in a form that died out in Kyoto and survived only here.

島根県 · Art & museums

Kumagai Residence

大田市石見

A silver-mine merchant's house of thirty rooms, its rising formality readable from shopfront to inner parlour.

島根県 · Art & museums

Boatbuilding of Oki

隠岐の島町松江・隠岐

Boats built from island timber, the curve of the hull adjusted to the sea each village works.

島根県 · Art & museums

Shinto Images of Izumo

松江市松江・隠岐

Shinto deities carved in human form survive here - made with Buddhist technique but in different dress and mood.

島根県 · Art & museums

Sunset over Lake Shinji

松江市松江・隠岐

The city has built viewing points for the lake sunset - the position from which a landscape is seen, itself designed.

島根県 · Art & museums

Terraces of Iwami

邑南町石見

Terraces built by stacking stone into steep mountain slopes - a record of turning hillside into stairs.

島根県 · Art & museums

Port of Hamada

浜田市石見

The port that shipped the great Sekishu jars out to all Japan, and prospered on the northern trade.

島根県 · Art & museums

Oki Geopark

隠岐の島町松江・隠岐

Source of the obsidian carried to the mainland in the Palaeolithic - an island that was a trading origin point.

島根県 · Regional selections

Eshima Bridge (Betabumi-zaka)

松江・安来

A bridge joining Matsue with Sakaiminato in Tottori. It crosses Nakaumi and rises to about 45 metres.