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Rurikoji Gojunoto
One of the three finest pagodas of Japan, and held to be the summit of Ouchi culture.
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Xavier Memorial Church
A town where Xavier was permitted to preach by Ouchi Yoshitaka, and Japan's first permanent church was established. One of the starting points of Japanese Christian history.
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Yamaguchi Daijingu
Held to be the first shrine to receive a division of the deity of Ise Jingu, and called the Ise of the west.
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Yuda Onsen
Said to have been found by a white fox. The birthplace of Nakahara Chuya.
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Kozan Park
One of the three finest pagodas of Japan, and the summit of Ouchi culture.
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Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
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Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
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Xavier Memorial Church
Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.
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Ouchi Lacquerware
Made by the Ouchi lords for trade with Ming China: gold lozenges and autumn grasses on vermilion.
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Tokuji Washi
Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.
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Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum
For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.
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Ouchi Dolls
A married pair in Ouchi lacquer, their faces barely drawn - the form and the vermilion do the work.