ToyamaContemporary ArtTonami
Tulip Fields of Tonami
Bulb fields divided by colour for production become, unintentionally, a vast composition in flat colour.
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ToyamaContemporary Art
IshikawaContemporary ArtSuzu
Oku-Noto Triennale
Held at the tip of a peninsula, using depopulated hamlets as its venue and their residents as its guides.
FukuiContemporary ArtWakasa
Lake Mikata and the Varves
Seventy thousand annual layers on the lake bed became the world standard for dating - stripes laid down by nature, displayed as such.
FukuiContemporary ArtEchizen
Daffodil Terraces of the Echizen Coast
Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea, banded white with daffodils each winter.
YamanashiContemporary ArtKoshu
Vineyards of Katsunuma
Trellised vineyards covering the slopes, where Japanese winemaking began; Meiji brick cellars still stand.
YamanashiContemporary ArtOshino
Oshino Hakkai
Eight springs fed by Fuji's groundwater, visited in sequence by pilgrims - belief mapped onto terrain.
YamanashiContemporary ArtHokuto
Koumi Line and the Yatsugatake
A railway at 1,375 metres, a single drawn line across the plateau that photographers return to.
YamanashiContemporary ArtHokuto
Jindai Zakura
One of Japan's three great cherries: hollowed out and held up by props, standing as a form made by time.
YamanashiContemporary ArtNirasaki
Shichiriiwa Cliffs of Nirasaki
Thirty kilometres of cliff formed by pyroclastic flow, with halls dug sideways into the rock face.
NaganoContemporary ArtChikuma
Obasute Rice Terraces
The moon reflected in each separate paddy - a subject for painters since the Edo period.
NaganoContemporary ArtIna
Takato Castle Site
Fifteen hundred trees of a cherry unique to this place, flowering along the line of the old earthworks.
NaganoContemporary ArtAzumino
Wasabi Fields of Azumino
Fields fed by Alpine groundwater, their stone channels and water wheels making a landscape out of farm equipment.
NaganoContemporary ArtIida
Ina Valley Terraces
Villages and fields ranked on river terraces - the steps of the terrain become the steps of land use.
GifuContemporary ArtYoro
Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro
A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.
GifuContemporary ArtMotosu
Usuzumi Cherry of Neodani
One of Japan's three great cherries, named for the ink-grey the petals turn as they fall.
GifuContemporary ArtSekigahara
Sekigahara Battlefield
Armies were placed around a ring of hills; the relation of terrain to formation can still be walked.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtMakinohara
Tea Fields of Makinohara
Tea fields opened by samurai who gave up their swords; rows follow the contours, and frost fans stand like a forest.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtMishima
Springs of Mishima
Fuji's groundwater runs through the town centre, with stepping stones laid so people walk in the river itself.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtShizuoka
Miho no Matsubara
Fuji seen through a pine wood - a composition painted from Sesshu to Hiroshige, and now World Heritage.
AichiContemporary ArtNagoya
Aichi Triennale
One of Japan's largest international art festivals, running through shopping streets and warehouses alongside a performing arts programme.
AichiContemporary ArtNishio
Matcha of Nishio
Among Japan's leading matcha districts; the black shading covers change the landscape by season, and the stone mills still turn.
MieContemporary ArtKumano
Hana no Iwaya
No building at all: a 45-metre rock is the deity, and twice a year a rope is strung from its summit.
MieContemporary Art
MieContemporary ArtShima
Ria Coast of Shima
Drowned valleys forming a maze of inlets, across which pearl rafts lay out their regular artificial lines.