Hagi
Shoin Jinja
It enshrines Yoshida Shoin. The Shoka Sonjuku school in its grounds is a component of the World Cultural Heritage Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution.
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Hagi Jokamachi
The layout of the samurai quarter survives exactly as it was in the Edo period.
YamaguchiHistoric Districts
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Hagi Museum
Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.
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Shokasonjuku Academy
Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.
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Hagi Reverberatory Furnace
A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
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Ebisugahana Shipyard
Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.
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Oitayama Tatara Iron Works
The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.
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Kikuya Residence
Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.
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Samurai Houses of Hagi
Senior retainers' houses, where the height of the gate and wall states the family's rank.
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Climbing Kilns of Hagi
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillside; the slope and the number of chambers decide how the ware comes out.
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The Seven Changes of Hagi
Tea seeps into the crazing and the colour keeps changing - the maker does not decide when the bowl is finished.
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Citrus and Earthen Walls of Hagi
Citrus planted to give jobless samurai a livelihood now defines how the whole town looks.
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Korean Potters of Hagi
The families of the abducted Korean potters still run kilns here - a transfer of technique preserved as lineage.
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Townhouse Reuse in Hagi
Empty townhouses turned into inns and studios - an ongoing test of how to preserve by using.