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Tamura Jinja
First shrine of Sanuki Province. A dragon is said to live in the bottomless pool in its grounds, and looking into it was held to bring a curse.
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Sanuki Kokubunji
The foundation stones from its founding survive, so the size of the old precinct can be read on the ground.
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Ichinomiyaji
Put your head into the stone shrine, they say, and you will hear the cauldrons of hell.
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Ritsurin Koen
The largest garden in Japan designated a Special Place of Scenic Beauty. It borrows Mount Shiun as scenery.
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Setouchi Triennale
An international exhibition across twelve islands, begun as an attempt to bring people back to depopulated and polluted places.
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Kagawa Museum
History and art in one institution, built around calligraphy and Buddhist art in the province that produced Kukai.
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Takamatsu Art Museum
Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.
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Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.
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Takamatsu Castle
Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.
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Shikoku Mura
Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.
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Sanuki Folk Craft Museum
Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.
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Aji Granite
Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.
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Sanuki Lacquer Art
Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.
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Sanuki Temari Balls
Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.
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Ogijima and Megijima
Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.
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Bota-ori Cloth
Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.
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Sanuki Lanterns
Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.
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Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
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Lion Dances of Sanuki
Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.
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Stonemasons of Mure
A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.