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EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Ishiteji

Its Nio gate is a National Treasure. It stands just beside Dogo Onsen.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Isaniwa Jinja

Its hall in the hachiman-zukuri style is held to be one of only three such in Japan, with Usa Jingu and Iwashimizu Hachimangu. It stands on the rise above Dogo.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Mantra Cave

You pass through a cave and come out at the inner sanctuary. A space of extraordinary density.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Niomon

The Nio gate is a National Treasure. It carries the legend of Emon Saburo and the origin of the pilgrimage.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Taisanji

Its main hall is a National Treasure, a large Buddhist hall of the Kamakura period.

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Matsuyama

Jodoji (Ehime)

It holds a figure of the monk Kuya.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Enmyoji

A Christian lantern survives here, a trace of faith under prohibition.

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Matsuyama

Hantaji

Where the monk Ippen trained. It looks out over the Matsuyama plain.

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Matsuyama

Kuya Shonin

A figure with six small Amida emerging from its mouth. Kuya is said to have lived here for three years.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Yasakaji

Said to have been founded by En no Gyoja, who began shugendo.

EhimeShrines & Temples

Matsuyama

Sairinji

Its precinct sits lower than the ground around it, and carries a legend of a hole to hell.

EhimeArchitecture

Matsuyama

Dogo Onsen Honkan

Among the oldest hot springs in Japan. It has the Yushinden, a bath reserved for the imperial family.

EhimeArchitecture

Matsuyama

Matsuyama-jo

A surviving keep. Its linked keeps rise on the summit.

EhimeArt & Crafts

Matsuyama

Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art

Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.

EhimeMuseums

Matsuyama

Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo

Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.

EhimeMuseums

Matsuyama

Shiki Memorial Museum

For the poet who modernised haiku by preaching sketching from life; his own drawings and sickbed manuscripts survive.

EhimeArchitecture

Matsuyama

Bansuiso

A French-Renaissance villa built by a descendant of the local lords, its stairwell filled with stained glass.

EhimeArt & Crafts

Matsuyama

Iyo Kasuri

Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.

EhimeArt & Crafts

Matsuyama

Himedaruma Dolls

A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.

EhimeContemporary Art

Matsuyama

Dogo Art

An art festival through a hot-spring town, where artists remake inn rooms as works you sleep in.

EhimeContemporary Art

Matsuyama

Kashima Island

Seen from the shore it reads as a green mass floating on the sea - the archetype of an Inland Sea view.

EhimeArt & Crafts

Matsuyama

Haiku in the Streets of Matsuyama

Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.