Onomichi
Warehouse Reuse in Onomichi
Harbour warehouses and abandoned hillside houses repaired one at a time by residents - preservation by accumulation.
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Rurikoji Pagoda
One of Japan's three finest pagodas; its cypress-bark roofs thin and curve as the storeys taper upward.
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Sesshu Garden, Joeiji
Attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, and read as applying the composition of painting to stone and water.
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Xavier Memorial Church
Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.
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Shokasonjuku Academy
Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.
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Hagi Reverberatory Furnace
A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
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Ebisugahana Shipyard
Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.
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Kikuya Residence
Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.
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Iwakuni Castle
A mountain castle and a valley residence linked by the bridge; the rebuilt keep overhangs its lower storey.
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Akama Shrine
Dedicated to the child emperor drowned at Dannoura, its vermilion gate modelled on an undersea palace.
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Chofu District
The castle town of a Mori branch house, its lanes walled in tile-laced earth between temples and samurai houses.
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Hofu Tenmangu
Said to be the first shrine to Michizane; one hall began as a pagoda and was converted mid-construction.
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Suo Kokubunji
One of the few provincial temples where a hall still stands on the original 8th-century site.
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Yanai White-Walled District
A merchant town whose goldfish lanterns are said to have been invented after a trader saw the Nebuta floats up north.
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Motonosumi Shrine
A hundred and twenty-three vermilion gates curve down a cliff toward the sea, following the ground's own line.
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Samurai Houses of Hagi
Senior retainers' houses, where the height of the gate and wall states the family's rank.
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Mori Family Garden
A Taisho garden for a former daimyo house, its stones and water placed for the view from the reception rooms.
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Modern Buildings of Shimonoseki
A port facing the continent, keeping a British consulate and a trading company's block with a Japanese garden on its roof.
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Coal Industry of Ube
An undersea coalfield that became a chemical industry; its plant structures now line the inland sea.
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Kanmon Strait Crossings
One strait crossed four ways - bridge, rail, road and a pedestrian tunnel walked beneath the seabed.
Hagi
Townhouse Reuse in Hagi
Empty townhouses turned into inns and studios - an ongoing test of how to preserve by using.
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Inukai Rural Stage
A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.
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Two-Tier Udatsu of Sadamitsu
Firewalls stacked in two tiers - a form found in this town alone, sometimes coloured in the plaster.