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Teshima Art Museum
A concrete shell in the shape of a water drop. Not a single column inside.
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Chichu Art Museum
Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.
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Benesse House Museum
A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.
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Lee Ufan Museum
For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.
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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.
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Takamatsu Art Museum
Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.
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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.
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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.
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Marugame Fans
Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.
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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.
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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Kagawa Lacquerware
Lacquerware of Takamatsu. It has the carving techniques of kinma, zonsei and choshitsu. Tamakaji Zokoku founded it by copying Chinese techniques.
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Kagawa Urushi Lacquerware Institute
The prefecture's lacquer art institute. It passes on kinma and other techniques to the next generation.
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The Kagawa Museum Lacquer Art Exhibit
The lacquer art exhibit of the prefectural museum. It holds Kagawa lacquerware in its collection.
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Kinma Lacquerware
Lines are carved with a blade into a surface built up with layers of lacquer and filled with colored lacquer. A representative technique of Kagawa lacquerware.
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Zonsei Lacquerware
A technique in which patterns are drawn on a lacquer ground with colored lacquer, then finished with line carving and gold powder.
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Choshitsu Carved Lacquerware
A technique in which dozens of layers of lacquer are built up and carved into to show the colors of the cross-section.