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Kato Jinja
It enshrines Kato Kiyomasa. Standing beside the honmaru of Kumamoto Castle, it looks up at the keep from close range.
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Fujisaki Hachimangu
The tutelary shrine of Kumamoto, known for its autumn festival and its procession of attendant warriors.
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Ungan Zenji
It has the Reiganto cave, where Miyamoto Musashi wrote the Book of Five Rings.
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Kengun Jinja
Held to be the oldest shrine in Kumamoto. Its approach runs about 500 metres.
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Izumi Jinja
It stands within Suizenji Jojuen garden, and enshrines the Hosokawa family.
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Kitaoka Jinja
A married pair of camphor trees stands on the approach. A shrine of the Gion faith.
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Kumamoto-jo
Stone walls in the musha-gaeshi form. Restoration continues after the 2016 earthquake.
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Suizenji Jojuen
A stroll garden modelled on the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido. Groundwater from Aso rises here.
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Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
A Maekawa building inside the castle grounds, with decorated tomb chambers rebuilt full size to be entered like the originals.
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Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
On the third floor of a shopping building and run together with a bookshop, with permanent rooms commissioned from artists.
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Shimada Museum of Arts
Miyamoto Musashi died in this city; the museum holds his own writing and the wooden swords said to be his.
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Kumamoto Artpolis
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
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Former Hosokawa Gyobu Residence
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
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Higo Inlay
Fine grooves cut into iron and filled with hammered gold and silver - a sword-fitting craft now turned to jewellery.
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Obake no Kinta
Pull the string and its eyes roll and its tongue shoots out - a papier-mache doll said to model a retainer of Kato Kiyomasa, with its prototype said to date from the Kaei era.
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Higo Temari Balls
Geometric patterns stitched over a ball; a pastime of the lords' daughters that became a common toy.
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Contemporary Architecture of Kumamoto
Public housing from the Artpolis programme, scattered across the province and judged by how people go on living in it.
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Bamboo and Wood of Kumamoto
A bamboo province making baskets and farm tools, their forms arrived at purely through use.
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Castle Town of Kumamoto
Kato Kiyomasa rerouted a river to plan castle and town as one; the layout of water and roads still shows it.