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Inbe Jinja
It enshrines the Inbe clan, who wove hemp and cotton and delivered them to the court.
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Dainichiji
It was the administrative temple of Ichinomiya Jinja, and keeps a trace of the old fusion of Shinto and Buddhism.
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Awa Kokubunji
Its Momoyama-period dry landscape garden is a Place of Scenic Beauty.
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The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Collecting on three axes - the human figure, this province, and the present - centred on how the body was depicted in the 20th century.
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Awa Indigo
Indigo leaves composted into sukumo; only a handful of makers remain, and most Japanese indigo dyeing still depends on them.
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Awa Shijira Cloth
Woven at uneven tension and then shrunk, so the surface puckers and touches the skin less - a cloth for heat.
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Awa Odori Kaikan
On a dance four centuries old, where each troupe's matched coats and hats work as its emblem.
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Tokushima Castle Museum
A Momoyama garden built from the province's blue-green schist, composed from the colour and shape of the stone alone.
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Awa Puppet Theatre
Indigo wealth planted puppet theatre in the villages; dozens of their open-air stages still survive and still perform.
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Awa Puppet Heads
Carved larger than Bunraku's so they read from a distance outdoors; the master Tengukyu's heads are still in use.
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Inukai Rural Stage
A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.
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Tokushima Prefectural Museum
The province's general museum, organised around its blue-green stone and the society indigo built.
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Bunka no Mori Park
Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.
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Indigo Vats
Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.
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Mt Bizan and Tokushima
A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.
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Blue Stone of Awa
A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.
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Buddhist Images of Awa
Heian and Kamakura images survive along the pilgrim route - the pilgrimage itself acting as their protection.