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山口県 · Art & museums

Suo Kokubunji

防府市中部

One of the few provincial temples where a hall still stands on the original 8th-century site.

山口県 · Art & museums

Yanai White-Walled District

柳井市東部

A merchant town whose goldfish lanterns are said to have been invented after a trader saw the Nebuta floats up north.

山口県 · Art & museums

Yanai Stripe Cloth

柳井市東部

Striped cotton that sold widely in the Edo period, lost, and reconstructed from surviving samples.

山口県 · Art & museums

Shunan City Museum of Art and History

周南市東部

Two pillars: a painter of Siberian internment, and the photographer who took the famous portrait of the novelist Dazai.

山口県 · Art & museums

Kazuki Yasuo Museum

長門市西部

A painter who rendered his Siberian captivity as 57 canvases in black and ochre alone, shown in his home village.

山口県 · Art & museums

Motonosumi Shrine

長門市西部

A hundred and twenty-three vermilion gates curve down a cliff toward the sea, following the ground's own line.

山口県 · Art & museums

Akiyoshidai Plateau

美祢市中部

Japan's largest karst plateau: white limestone pillars scattered through grassland, with ten kilometres of cave beneath.

山口県 · Art & museums

Tsunoshima Bridge

下関市西部

Its piers were kept low and its line bent for the view - civil engineering made the subject of the landscape.

山口県 · Art & museums

Samurai Houses of Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

Senior retainers' houses, where the height of the gate and wall states the family's rank.

山口県 · Art & museums

Climbing Kilns of Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

Chambered kilns stepped up the hillside; the slope and the number of chambers decide how the ware comes out.

山口県 · Art & museums

Suo Oshima and Tsuneichi Miyamoto

周防大島町東部

Home of the folklorist who walked all Japan; his hundred thousand photographs record a way of life now gone.

山口県 · Art & museums

Ouchi Dolls

山口市中部

A married pair in Ouchi lacquer, their faces barely drawn - the form and the vermilion do the work.

山口県 · Art & museums

White Snakes of Iwakuni

岩国市東部

A population of white rat snakes bred here; the animal itself is both a natural monument and an object of worship.

山口県 · Art & museums

Mori Family Garden

防府市中部

A Taisho garden for a former daimyo house, its stones and water placed for the view from the reception rooms.

山口県 · Art & museums

Modern Buildings of Shimonoseki

下関市西部

A port facing the continent, keeping a British consulate and a trading company's block with a Japanese garden on its roof.

山口県 · Art & museums

The Seven Changes of Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

Tea seeps into the crazing and the colour keeps changing - the maker does not decide when the bowl is finished.

山口県 · Art & museums

Akiyoshido Cave

美祢市中部

Terraced limestone pools like rice paddies, built up by dripping water over hundreds of thousands of years.

山口県 · Art & museums

Citrus and Earthen Walls of Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

Citrus planted to give jobless samurai a livelihood now defines how the whole town looks.

山口県 · Art & museums

Coal Industry of Ube

宇部市西部

An undersea coalfield that became a chemical industry; its plant structures now line the inland sea.

山口県 · Art & museums

Suo Monkey Theatre

光市東部

A performing tradition that died out entirely and was reconstructed in the 1970s, costumes and all.

山口県 · Art & museums

Omijima Coast

長門市西部

Basalt cut by wind and wave into arches and stacks, most of it visible only from a boat.

山口県 · Art & museums

Korean Potters of Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

The families of the abducted Korean potters still run kilns here - a transfer of technique preserved as lineage.

山口県 · Art & museums

Kanmon Strait Crossings

下関市西部

One strait crossed four ways - bridge, rail, road and a pedestrian tunnel walked beneath the seabed.

山口県 · Art & museums

Townhouse Reuse in Hagi

萩市北浦（萩）

Empty townhouses turned into inns and studios - an ongoing test of how to preserve by using.