Takamatsu
Stonemasons of Mure
A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.
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EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art
Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Tokoro Museum Omishima
Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Kikuma Roof Tiles
Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Sakurai Lacquerware
Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.
EhimeArt & Crafts
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Iyo Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.
Matsuyama
Himedaruma Dolls
A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.
EhimeArt & CraftsUchiko
Kites of Ikazaki
Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.
EhimeArt & CraftsUwajima
Ushioni of Uwajima
A six-metre papier-mache beast with an ox's body and a demon's head, its neck stretched to poke into the eaves.
EhimeArt & CraftsKumakōgen
Kuma Museum of Art
A museum in a mountain town, built on modern oil paintings gathered by a local businessman.
Shikokuchūō
Iyo Mizuhiki
A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.
Uwajima
Date Family of Uwajima
Ruled by a branch of the Sendai Date house; its armour and furnishings share motifs with the main family's.
Uchiko
Coopers of Ehime
Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.
Seiyo
Kagura of Nanyo
Dances in animal masks - deer above all - with each village's masks carved differently.
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Haiku in the Streets of Matsuyama
Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
The Museum of Art, Kochi
Among Japan's major Chagall holdings, in a building faced with local plaster and tile, and fitted with a Noh stage.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center
The photographer whose images of Katsura changed how Japanese architecture is seen; all 34,000 of his works came here.
Konan
Ekin Festival, Akaoka
For two nights a year the screens are set out along the shopfronts and lit only by candles - as they were meant to be seen.
Ino
Tosa Washi
Its tengujo is the thinnest handmade paper in the world - 0.03 mm - and is used to conserve artworks globally.