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Yuga Jinja Hongu
In the Edo period it became customary to pair a visit here with one to Kotohiragu in Sanuki. It claims to be the head temple for warding off misfortune.
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Achi Jinja
It stands on Tsurugatayama, looking down on the Kurashiki Bikan district. A shrine tied to immigrants from the continent.
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Achi no Fuji
An akebono wisteria over 300 years old. A prefectural Natural Monument.
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Yuga Jinja
It claims to be one of the three great gongen of Japan. A great torii of Bizen ware stands here.
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Goryu Sonryuin
One of the head temples of shugendo. A three-storey pagoda stands here.
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Bikanchiku
Goods gathered here as a territory ruled directly by the shogunate. White-walled storehouses line the canal.
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Kurashiki Bikan
White-walled storehouses of a shogunal territory. The Ohara Museum stands on the same street.
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Ohara Museum
The first museum of Western art in Japan. It holds El Greco's Annunciation.
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Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
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Kurashiki Archaeological Museum
In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.
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Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
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Ohashi Residence
A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.
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Former Nozaki Residence
The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.
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Kojima Denim
A tabi and school-uniform town that made Japan's first jeans; its old shuttle looms now supply the world.
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Kurashiki Canvas
Woven slowly on old looms so the yarn keeps its air; the cloth moved from ships' sails to bags.
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Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.
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Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
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Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
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Kojima Torajiro
The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.