Kami
Tosa Blades
Forged without templates, each blade shaped to its order - a trade built on hatchets and sickles for mountain work.
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Aki
Uchiharano Ware
Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.
Kochi
Kochi Sunday Market
A street market held for over three centuries; once a week a city avenue changes character entirely.
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Tosa Coral Carving
Red coral from these waters, carved over months by hands working a material that shatters if pushed.
Ino
Tosa Papermaking Workshops
To make paper 0.03 mm thick the screen itself must be woven that fine - the precision starts with the tools.
Kochi
Butsudan of Tosa
Rich forests made this a woodworking province; its altars pass through carving, lacquer and gilding in turn.
Kami
Kagura of Monobe
A mountain valley keeping a rite descended from Onmyodo, whose paper-cut implements have a form of their own.
Ino
Paper Products of Tosa
A paper province that also made the goods; thickness and fibre are varied for each intended use.
Kochi
Stone Guardians of Tosa
Local masons' habits show in these guardian lions, most set low to survive typhoons.
Shimanto
River Boats of the Shimanto
Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.
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Tosa Fighting Dogs and Festival Form
Fighting dogs are dressed in embroidered aprons modelled on sumo champions' - a rare case of ceremonial textile on an animal.
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Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
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Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.
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Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.
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Hakata Textiles
Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.
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Hakata Dolls
Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.
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Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
Two square tubes projecting horizontally from a hilltop - nicknamed the binoculars, and a key early Isozaki.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKurume
Kurume City Art Museum
At the heart of a cultural centre the Bridgestone founder gave his home town, built around two painters born here.
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Kurume Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a twelve-year-old girl who noticed the pattern in a faded cloth; now an Important Intangible Cultural Property.
Yame
Yame Fukushima Butsudan
Built inside like a miniature temple, and finished by seven separate trades in sequence.
FukuokaArt & CraftsYame
Yame Lanterns
A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Koishiwara Ware
Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.