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Obi sashes in the kenjo pattern. The dolls are unglazed clay, painted after firing.
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Dazaifu Tenmangu
Head shrine of all Tenmangu; its temporary hall, by Sou Fujimoto, carries a living grove on its roof.
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Kushida Shrine
Where the float festival begins; one decorated float stands here all year, so the doll-makers' work is always visible.
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Imperial Steel Works, Yahata
Where Japanese heavy industry began; its red-brick head office survives inside a still-working steelworks.
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Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit
The steel headframe of a pit that fuelled Japan's industrialisation - including its reliance on convict labour.
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Canals of Yanagawa
Four hundred and seventy kilometres of canal serving daily life, farming and defence at once - saved from being filled in by residents.
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Tachibana Family Garden, Ohana
A daimyo villa whose pond stands for the sea, ringed by 280 pines, with Western and Japanese wings joined.
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Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
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Former Ito Denemon Residence
A coal magnate's mansion, keeping the rooms and garden he prepared for his poet wife.
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Its south face steps up in fourteen planted terraces; the 76 species planted have grown past 120, carried in by birds.
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Nexus World
Isozaki commissioned six architects to build one block each; the experimental flats are still lived in.
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Miyajidake Shrine
Twice a year the setting sun lines up exactly with the approach, laying a band of light to the sea.
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Canal City Hakata
A canal cut through the middle of the site with curved buildings on both banks - a design that changed Japanese retail architecture.
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Hakata Machiya Folk Museum
A relocated Meiji weaver's house, with hand-weaving and top-spinning demonstrated inside it.
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Ohori Park
A castle moat turned park, modelled on West Lake in China, crossed by islands and bridges.
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Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Whether it ever had a keep is still argued; the scale of the walls shows it was among Kyushu's largest fortresses.
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Former Mitsui Club, Moji
A trading company's club in half-timbered style, keeping the room where Einstein stayed exactly as it was.
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Ukiha White Walls
Rebuilt in fireproof earthen construction after a great fire, with water channels running through it.
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Rural Stages of Chikugo
Stages villages built for themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the audience.