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Terukuni Jinja
The tutelary deity of Kagoshima, enshrining Shimazu Nariakira. A great torii stands at the foot of Shiroyama.
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Kurokami Torii
In the Taisho eruption a torii three metres high was buried up to its top rail.
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Sakurajima
It is still erupting. The 1914 eruption joined it to the Osumi peninsula.
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Satsuma Kiriko
Thick coloured glass is cut back to produce a graded shading. Production died out once and was revived.
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Kagoshima City Museum of Art
This province sent an unusual number of painters into Japanese modern art; the museum collects them systematically.
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Reimeikan Museum
On the castle site; because this province destroyed its Buddhist art more thoroughly than any other, it also records what was lost.
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Nagashima Museum
On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.
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Shoko Shuseikan
Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.
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Stone Bridge Memorial Park
Stone arches nearly lost to flood, dismantled and rebuilt here - the work of Kumamoto masons hired into Satsuma.
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Terayama Charcoal Kiln and Sekiyoshi Sluice
The kiln that made the furnace's fuel and the channel that brought its water - the supporting infrastructure, included in the listing.
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Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
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The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma
In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.
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Shiroyama and the Castle Walls
Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.
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Metalwork of Satsuma
Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.
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Shochu Distilleries of Kagoshima
Fermenting jars are sunk into the floor, so the surrounding earth holds the temperature steady.
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Shimazu Patronage of Craft
The lords set pottery, glass and metal workshops in their own castle town and directed them personally.