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Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
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Ouchi Lacquerware
Made by the Ouchi lords for trade with Ming China: gold lozenges and autumn grasses on vermilion.
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Tokuji Washi
Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.
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Oitayama Tatara Iron Works
The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.
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Shimonoseki City Art Museum
In the birthplace of Kano Hogai, who pushed Nihonga into the modern era; the museum traces how he got there.
Ube
UBE Biennale
Japan's first international open-air sculpture competition; sixty years of prize works have filled the park.
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Akama Inkstone
Cut from a fine-grained local stone that grinds ink smoothly, its edges carved with dragons and pines.
Yanai
Yanai Stripe Cloth
Striped cotton that sold widely in the Edo period, lost, and reconstructed from surviving samples.
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Shunan City Museum of Art and History
Two pillars: a painter of Siberian internment, and the photographer who took the famous portrait of the novelist Dazai.
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Kazuki Yasuo Museum
A painter who rendered his Siberian captivity as 57 canvases in black and ochre alone, shown in his home village.
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Climbing Kilns of Hagi
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillside; the slope and the number of chambers decide how the ware comes out.
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Ouchi Dolls
A married pair in Ouchi lacquer, their faces barely drawn - the form and the vermilion do the work.
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The Seven Changes of Hagi
Tea seeps into the crazing and the colour keeps changing - the maker does not decide when the bowl is finished.
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Suo Monkey Theatre
A performing tradition that died out entirely and was reconstructed in the 1970s, costumes and all.
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Korean Potters of Hagi
The families of the abducted Korean potters still run kilns here - a transfer of technique preserved as lineage.
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Medieval Sculpture of Suo
Ouchi patronage left many medieval images here, showing how the capital's style shifted in provincial hands.
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Hagi Ware Museum
The Hagi Ware Museum. It exhibits the history and tools of the production area.
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Hagi Ceramic Artists Association and the Cluster of Kilns
The kilns of Hagi. They carry on the lineage opened by potters who came from Korea, as the official kilns of the Mori clan.
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Fukawa Hagi
Fukawa Hagi of Nagato. A lineage that branched off from the official kilns of Hagi.
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Bamboo Craft of the Hagi Okan in Yamaguchi
The bamboo craft of Yamaguchi. An everyday craft handed down along the Hagi Okan road.
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Yanai Goldfish Lanterns
The goldfish lanterns of Yanai. The shape of a goldfish is made from bamboo and washi. They are said to have been started by a merchant who had seen the Nebuta of Aomori.