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Tanaka Isson Memorial Museum
A painter who moved here at fifty, worked as a dyer to fund his painting, sold almost nothing, and was recognised only after death.
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Oshima Tsumugi Silk
Thread dyed with a local shrub and then trodden into iron-rich mud to blacken; the kasuri threads are themselves woven first on a separate loom.
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Mud Dyeing of Amami
Plant dye and mud alternated more than twenty times to reach a black no chemical dye can match.
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Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami
Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.
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Takakura Granaries of Amami
Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.
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Oshima Tsumugi Village
The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.
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Subtropical Forest of Amami
Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.