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OkayamaShrines & TemplesIts main hall and worship hall are National Treasures. What makes it famous is the corridor, about 360 metres of it, running along the ridge. A roofed walkway that undulates downhill with the lie of the land. That is architecture fitted to a site, not a design meant to be looked at.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesIt carries the legend of the subduing of Ura. That myth is held to be the original of the Momotaro tale.
OkayamaShrines & TemplesEven after the separation of Shinto and Buddhism it did not become a shrine, but kept enshrining Inari as a temple: a rare case. Its formal name is Myokyoji.
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OkayamaArchitectureFortune is read from the sound of a ringing cauldron. It became the subject of a tale in Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu Monogatari.
OkayamaArchitectureThe black weatherboarding gives it the name Crow Castle. It pairs with Korakuen across the river.
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OkayamaFestivalsThousands of naked men contend for the sacred wands. One of the three strange festivals of Japan.
OkayamaArt & CraftsBuilt around Sesshu, born in this province, and holding ink paintings by the swordsman Musashi as well.
OkayamaArt & CraftsBuilt on the Ikeda lords' collection, with a holding of Noh robes among the finest in Japan.
OkayamaMuseumsOne of Japan's few museums of the ancient Near East, grown from a local collector's gift.
OkayamaArt & CraftsIn Yumeji's home province, with his birthplace and the studio he designed himself both preserved.
OkayamaArt & CraftsA ruined copper refinery turned museum without demolition, conditioned by sun and geothermal air alone.
OkayamaContemporary ArtOn an island of some fifty people, Sejima scattered transparent pavilions so that walking becomes the exhibition.
OkayamaMuseumsIn an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.
OkayamaContemporary ArtThe fourth-largest keyhole tomb in Japan, and climbable because it is not an imperial grave - evidence Kibi rivalled the capital.
OkayamaArchitectureNine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.