MiyazakiArt & CraftsMiyazaki
Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum
Home of Ei-Q, who made images by laying objects straight onto photographic paper; this is the fullest collection of his work.
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Haniwa Garden, Heiwadai Park
Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.
Miyakonojo
Miyakonojo Bows
Bamboo and sumac laminated with hide glue through over two hundred steps; most Japanese bamboo bows are made here.
MiyazakiArt & CraftsTakanabe
Takanabe Daishi
One man began carving in his sixties and spent thirty years cutting 700 stone figures over a burial ground - untrained, and overwhelming in number.
Miyazaki
Sadowara Clay Dolls
Clay dolls counted among the sources of the Kyushu tradition, still made from Edo-period moulds.
Takachiho
Kagura Masks of Hyuga
Each hamlet has its own carver, so the same character wears a different face; broken masks are recut and the line renews.
Aya
Weaving and Dyeing of Miyazaki
Studios in Aya dye with plants from the protected forest - conservation and dye supply tied together.
Hyuga
Stonework of Hyuga
Soft tuff quarried for lanterns and walls; its workability is why stone culture is dense in this province.
Nobeoka
Buddhist Images of Miyazaki
The anti-Buddhist campaigns hit hard here, yet Heian images survive in the mountain temples.
Takachiho
Kagura Costume and Paper Cuts
Cut paper hung on four sides of the dancing floor, its patterns diagramming a whole cosmology.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsYūsui
Kirishima Open-Air Museum
At 700 metres, where artists chose their own sites; when the fog comes in, the sculptures appear and vanish.
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Kagoshima City Museum of Art
This province sent an unusual number of painters into Japanese modern art; the museum collects them systematically.
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Nagashima Museum
On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Satsuma Ware
Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Miyama Pottery Village
The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Tanaka Isson Memorial Museum
A painter who moved here at fifty, worked as a dyer to fund his painting, sold almost nothing, and was recognised only after death.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Silk
Thread dyed with a local shrub and then trodden into iron-rich mud to blacken; the kasuri threads are themselves woven first on a separate loom.
Amami
Mud Dyeing of Amami
Plant dye and mud alternated more than twenty times to reach a black no chemical dye can match.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsYakushima
Yakusugi Woodcraft
Only stumps left by Edo-period logging may be used; no living tree is cut, and the timber is three centuries old before it starts.
Minamikyushu
Kawanabe Butsudan
Satsuma banned Buddhism outright for a time; altars were made in secret, and when the ban lifted that skill became an industry.
Nishinoomote
Tanegashima Scissors
Gunsmithing turned to scissors; steel is forge-welded to soft iron to shape the blades and handles.
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Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami
Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Village
The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.