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Awa Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar kneaded by hand and pressed into carved wooden moulds - the moulds themselves carved down the generations.
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TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Indigo Vats
Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.
TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Blue Stone of Awa
A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.
Tokushima
Buddhist Images of Awa
Heian and Kamakura images survive along the pilgrim route - the pilgrimage itself acting as their protection.
Miyoshi
Festival Floats of Awa
Indigo money paid for the floats; the carving and embroidery record the merchants' wealth.
Tokushima
Hachisuka Family Furnishings
The furnishings of a domain enriched by its indigo monopoly - the economy visible in the lacquer.
Mima
Umbrellas and Lanterns of Mima
Umbrellas and lanterns of bamboo and paper, some covered in indigo-dyed sheets.
Tokushima
Butsudan of Awa
Indigo-rich farming villages could afford altars, and so a whole trade grew to supply them.
TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Awa Jurobe Yashiki
The house behind a famous puppet play, now performing it daily so the handling can be watched at close range.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Chichu Art Museum
Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Benesse House Museum
A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Lee Ufan Museum
For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.
KagawaArt & CraftsTonosho
Teshima Yokoo House
An old house rebuilt with red glass in the garden so the whole site reads red, and a mirrored tower at its edge.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Takamatsu Art Museum
Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.
Takamatsu
Aji Granite
Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Sanuki Lacquer Art
Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Temari Balls
Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.
KagawaArt & CraftsMarugame
Marugame Fans
Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.
KagawaArt & CraftsHigashikagawa
Sanuki Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.
Takamatsu
Bota-ori Cloth
Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Lanterns
Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.
Takamatsu
Lion Dances of Sanuki
Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.