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徳島県 · Art & museums

Chiiori and the Thatched Houses of Iya

三好市西部

A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Odori

徳島市東部

Four centuries old; each troupe's matched colours and crest function as its identifying mark.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Indigo Vats

徳島市東部

Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Mt Bizan and Tokushima

徳島市東部

A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Anan Coast

阿南市南部

A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Fishing Villages of Mugi

牟岐町南部

Houses ringed with stone against wind and wave, the whole hamlet built almost as one structure.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Forestry of Naka

那賀町南部

Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Indigo Fields of Ishii

石井町東部

Indigo planted where the river floods and enriches the soil - a crop chosen to turn disaster into profit.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Blue Stone of Awa

徳島市東部

A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Images of Awa

徳島市東部

Heian and Kamakura images survive along the pilgrim route - the pilgrimage itself acting as their protection.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Festival Floats of Awa

三好市西部

Indigo money paid for the floats; the carving and embroidery record the merchants' wealth.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Salt Making of Naruto

鳴門市東部

Salt fields once covered this shore; their divisions remain in the land, an industry that stood beside indigo.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Hachisuka Family Furnishings

徳島市東部

The furnishings of a domain enriched by its indigo monopoly - the economy visible in the lacquer.

徳島県 · Art & museums

The Yoshino River

徳島市東部

Stretches were deliberately left unbanked to let floods pass - villages and fields laid out on the assumption of inundation.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Townhouses of Tokushima

徳島市東部

A town laid out along its rivers, with landing stages behind the storehouses.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Umbrellas and Lanterns of Mima

美馬市西部

Umbrellas and lanterns of bamboo and paper, some covered in indigo-dyed sheets.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Butsudan of Awa

徳島市東部

Indigo-rich farming villages could afford altars, and so a whole trade grew to supply them.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Satoyama of Kamiyama

神山町東部

Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Oboke Gorge

三好市西部

The river cut down through crystalline schist; the layered rock faces repeat like a drawn pattern.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Kokubunji Garden

徳島市東部

Blue schist set upright in ranks - an unusually forceful dry garden of the Momoyama period.

徳島県 · Art & museums

Awa Jurobe Yashiki

徳島市東部

The house behind a famous puppet play, now performing it daily so the handling can be watched at close range.

徳島県 · Art & museums

The Shikoku Pilgrimage

徳島市東部

Eighty-eight temples over 1,400 kilometres, with stone markers turning the distance itself into structure.

徳島県 · Regional selections

COZY COMFORTS HOTEL

東部

A hotel in the east of Tokushima prefecture.

徳島県 · Regional selections

Isuien

東部

A restaurant in Tokushima City, serving local dishes and kaiseki.