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KumamotoShrines & TemplesThe 2016 Kumamoto earthquake brought down its gate and worship hall. Every fallen piece was numbered, collected, and where usable returned to its original position; the gate was restored in 2023. Not rebuilt, but put back with the same timber. The idea of repairing rather than replacing, which this series keeps meeting, is happening here in the present tense.
KumamotoShrines & Temples
KumamotoNature & SceneryBundles of thatch are set alight and swung about, in celebration of a marriage of the gods.
KumamotoNature & SceneryA procession in white robes goes round the fields. An agricultural rite said to have run for two thousand years.
KumamotoNature & Scenery
KumamotoNature & SceneryKumamotoContemporary ArtA thousand years of deliberate burning keeps this caldera in grass - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
Fire is swung in circles at Aso's rites; each village's masks are carved differently and repaired down the years.
KumamotoContemporary ArtFrom the rim the whole 25-kilometre caldera falls into one view - scale itself becoming the landscape.