Museum of Decorated Tumuli
Half of Japan's painted tomb chambers are in Kyushu and most of those in Kumamoto - abstract circles and triangles drawn in the 400s.
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Half of Japan's painted tomb chambers are in Kyushu and most of those in Kumamoto - abstract circles and triangles drawn in the 400s.
Geometric patterns and figures painted on the chamber wall; two circles read as breasts gave the tomb its name.
An early Toyo Ito public building: the store buried underground and grassed over so it reads as a hill.
On industrial poisoning and how it was recorded - including the role photography, notably Eugene Smith's, actually played.
The record of a rebellion led by a sixteen-year-old; its banners and crosses carry both faith and revolt at once.
The dinosaur museum in Mifune. The place where Japan's first carnivorous dinosaur tooth was found.
The prefecture's forestry research and training center. It works on the breeding of sugi cedar and on bed logs for dried shiitake.