Kumamoto
Bamboo and Wood of Kumamoto
A bamboo province making baskets and farm tools, their forms arrived at purely through use.
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KumamotoArt & CraftsTamana
Stone Figures of Tamana
Stone figures set around burial mounds, carved from Aso welded tuff and found almost only in northern Kyushu.
OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.
OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita City Art Museum
Built around the literati painter Tanomura Chikuden, and the tradition of painting as a scholar's sideline.
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OitaArt & CraftsBungotakada
Kumano Cliff Buddhas
Among Japan's largest cliff carvings; up a wild flight of stone steps, a fierce deity that appears to be smiling.
OitaArt & CraftsUsuki
Usuki Stone Buddhas
The only cliff carvings in Japan designated National Treasure - 61 figures cut into soft tuff, which gave them their rounded faces.
OitaArt & CraftsBeppu
Beppu Bamboo Craft
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
OitaArt & CraftsYufu
COMICO ART MUSEUM YUFUIN
If space is available, admission is possible without a reservation; Kuma set black charred-cedar boxes to borrow the mountain behind them.
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OitaArt & CraftsKunisaki
Kunisaki Pagodas
A stone pagoda form found only on this peninsula, its base carved with lotus petals unlike any elsewhere.
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OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Bungo Nanga Painting
Literati painting took root around Taketa, where picture, poem and calligraphy share one sheet.
OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Himedaruma of Taketa
A papier-mache daruma in female form, drawn from a samurai wife's story and still made by one family.
OitaArt & CraftsHita
Hita Cedar and Woodwork
Cedar planted under direct shogunal management; at one point this town made more wooden clogs than anywhere in Japan.
Kunisaki
Stone Monuments of Kunisaki
Stone Buddhas and pagodas scattered across the whole peninsula - the soft tuff made carving easy and the tradition dense.
Bungo-Ōno
Kagura of Bungo
Each hamlet has its own troupe, repairing and reusing masks whose carving betrays which troupe they belong to.
OitaArt & CraftsBungo-Ōno
Cliff Buddhas of Bungo Ono
Cliff carvings across the province; with Usuki, Oita has the densest concentration of them in Japan.
Beppu
Bamboo Artists of Oita
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
Usa
Votive Plaques of Usa
As head shrine it drew offerings from all Japan; the pictures on its votive plaques show what each era prayed for.
Usuki
Takeyoi Festival, Usuki
Twenty thousand bamboo lanterns cut and lit along the streets, so the town's plan appears as lines of light.
Bungotakada
Sculptors of Bungo
A peninsula far from the capital that kept many Heian and Kamakura images - enough to compare provincial hands.