KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands
An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.
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KagawaArchitecture
KagawaArchitectureManno
Manno Reservoir
Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
KagawaArchitectureNaoshima
Honmura Village, Naoshima
A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Arcades of Takamatsu
Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.
EhimeArchitecture
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Uchiko Historic District
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Garyu Sanso
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Ozu Castle
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
EhimeArchitectureUwajima
Uwajima Castle
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
EhimeArchitectureSeiyo
Unomachi Historic District
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.
EhimeArchitectureSeiyo
Kaimei School
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
EhimeArchitecture
EhimeArchitectureNiihama
Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru
Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.
EhimeArchitectureImabari
Kirosan Observatory
Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.
Seiyo
Uwa Rice Museum
A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Ozu Historic Streets
A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.
EhimeArchitectureImabari
Shipyards of Imabari
Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.
Uwajima
Pilgrimage Temples of Nanyo
The southern temples lie deep in the hills, where the paved pilgrim road and its distance markers survive longest.
Yusuhara
Kengo Kuma Buildings in Yusuhara
Six Kuma buildings in a mountain village of three thousand, each designed outward from locally sourced cedar and thatch.
Yusuhara
Yusuhara Community Library
Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.
KochiArchitectureAki
Nora Dokei
A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.
Aki
Tosa Plaster and Drip Tiles
Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.