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TottoriShrines & TemplesHeld to be the setting of the White Hare of Inaba in the Kojiki. Okuninushi helped a hare whose skin had been stripped off by sharks, and that hare then brought Okuninushi and Yagamihime together. That is why it is counted among the oldest matchmaking shrines in Japan. The stage of the myth is right there on the map.
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TottoriShrines & TemplesA Toshogu built by Ikeda Mitsunaka. The main hall and three other buildings are Important Cultural Properties.
TottoriShrines & TemplesBuilt by Ikeda Mitsunaka. The main hall and three other buildings are Important Cultural Properties.
TottoriShrines & TemplesOne of the settings of the folk tales handed down in the Inaba region.
TottoriNature & SceneryOne of the largest dune fields in Japan. A serpent legend is told of the pond beside it.
TottoriContemporary ArtTwo point four kilometres north to south, sixteen east to west. Wind ripples and sand curtains form here.
TottoriArt & CraftsThe only museum in the world devoted to sand sculpture. It is rebuilt to a new theme each year.
TottoriMuseumsFounded by a doctor who did not merely collect folk craft but commissioned new designs from living potters.
Across the street from the museum, selling not the collection but what is being made now - the same doctor's experiment.
TottoriMuseumsAt the foot of the castle hill, holding the Ikeda lords' furnishings and the province's art.
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TottoriArt & CraftsThirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
TottoriMuseumsGroundwater preserved wooden and lacquered objects in quantity - a rare chance to see Yayoi lacquer work directly.
TottoriMuseumsTottoriContemporary ArtThe shore of the Kojiki's white hare tale, its line of rocks standing in for the crocodiles' backs.
TottoriArt & CraftsPaper umbrellas hung with bells and foil, four thousand of them turned at once - a tool become a mass instrument of form.
TottoriArt & CraftsA lion head with a single horn, found only in this corner of Japan and recognised as national heritage.
TottoriArchitectureA spherical stone bulge was added to hold a failing wall - the only such structure in Japan, engineering turned into form.