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Makino Botanical Garden
A memorial to Makino Tomitaro, the father of Japanese botany. It grows 3,000 species.
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.
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Yusuhara Community Library
Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.
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Nora Dokei
A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.
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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.
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Hotsumisakiji
Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.
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Chikurinji
The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.
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Hirome Market
Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.
Shimanto
Thatched Villages of the Shimanto
Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.
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Doi Kachu, Aki
A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.
Yusuhara
Tea Halls of Yusuhara
Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.
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Kochi Castle Town
Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.
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Sakawa Brewery Town
A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.
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Fishing Villages of Nakatosa
A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.