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Kanzo Yashiki
A house that supplied liquorice to the shogunate, its roof raised in three tiers for silkworm rearing.
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Saruhashi Bridge
No piers: timbers cantilever out from both banks in stages - a method invented because the gorge was too deep to stand in.
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Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine
The start of the Yoshida climbing route, its painted Momoyama sanctuary standing at the end of a giant cedar avenue.
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Oshi Pilgrim Lodgings
Lodgings for Fuji pilgrims: long narrow plots running back from the road, with a channel drawn in for purification.
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Takeda Clan Residence Site
Shingen ruled from a square residence, not a castle - his saying that people are the castle, left in the ground.
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Shingen Levee
Rather than sealing the river, the levee is deliberately gapped to let water escape - engineering doctrine as landscape.
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Kiyosato Highland Buildings
A highland community founded by an American missionary, its timber lodge buildings still standing in the woods.
Kofu
Modern Architecture of Kofu
From pseudo-Western schools to postwar modernism, Kofu keeps the layers of a provincial city's modernity.
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Villages of Hayakawa
A pilgrimage stop between two sacred mountains, its houses stepped up stone terraces on a steep slope.
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Zen Temples of Kai
Zen spread here under Takeda patronage, leaving medieval halls and images scattered across the province.
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Honcho Street, Fujiyoshida
A street aimed straight at Mt Fuji, its Showa shopfronts and the mountain falling into one frame.
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Stone Walls of Kofu Castle
The keep is gone; only the rough-stacked stone walls remain, rising in the middle of the modern city.
Minami-Alps
Alluvial Fan of the Midai River
Stone works built to tame a violent river; the terrain and the villages on it were shaped by that engineering.
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Former Kaichi School
The first pseudo-Western building designated a National Treasure, drawn by a local carpenter after trips to Tokyo and Yokohama.
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Suwa Taisha and the Onbashira
Shrines with no inner sanctuary, worshipping mountain and tree; every seven years giant logs are hauled down and raised at the corners.
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Anrakuji Octagonal Pagoda
Japan's only octagonal three-storey pagoda; what looks like a fourth tier is a skirt roof, and it is among the oldest Zen-style structures here.
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Zensanji Pagoda
A pagoda finished without its balconies or railings - called the perfect unfinished tower, its lack read as its virtue.
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Obuse Townscape Project
Private plots were opened for walking through, turning the whole town into one circuit - a landmark of Japanese townscape work.
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Stone Church, Uchimura Kanzo Memorial
Alternating arches of stone and glass drop bands of light and dark - organic architecture in the Wright lineage.
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Former Mikasa Hotel
A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.
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Storehouse Town of Suzaka
Storehouses built on silk money, now kept alive by conversion into shops and galleries.
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Matsushiro Samurai Town
The Sanada castle town, where the domain school, the lord's residence and the samurai houses all stand within a short walk.