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Satsuma Kiriko
Thick coloured glass is cut back to produce a graded shading. Production died out once and was revived.
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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.
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Miyama Pottery Village
The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.
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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.
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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.
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Metalwork of Satsuma
Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.
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White Satsuma
Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.
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Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsTokunoshima
Bullfighting of Tokunoshima
Each hamlet keeps its own bull; the harness and rope designs work as the village's emblem.
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Shimazu Patronage of Craft
The lords set pottery, glass and metal workshops in their own castle town and directed them personally.
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Amami Oshima Tsumugi Village
Oshima Tsumugi Village in Amami. Visitors can try mud dyeing and weaving.
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Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi Mud-Dyeing Park
The mud-dyeing park in Amami. It exhibits mud-dyeing techniques.
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Oshima Tsumugi Art Museum
The Oshima Tsumugi Art Museum in Amami. It collects and preserves textiles.
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Honba Oshima Tsumugi no Sato
Honba Oshima Tsumugi no Sato in Kagoshima City. It displays the production area.