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A clock tower built so that farmers could tell the time. The samurai quarter survives.
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A clock tower built so that farmers could tell the time. The samurai quarter survives.
A clock tower a landowner built himself so that the farmers could tell the time.
A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.
Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.
Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.
A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.