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Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art
Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.
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Matsuyama Castle
One of twelve surviving keeps, ringed by lesser towers and defended by stone walls climbing the slope itself.
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Dogo Onsen Honkan
A working public bath that is also an Important Cultural Property, extended so often that its interior became a maze.
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Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo
Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.
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Shiki Memorial Museum
For the poet who modernised haiku by preaching sketching from life; his own drawings and sickbed manuscripts survive.
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Oyamazumi Shrine Treasure Hall
Around forty percent of all Japan's designated National Treasure and Important Cultural Property armour is in this one shrine, dedicated by sea warriors after each victory.
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Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
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Tokoro Museum Omishima
Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.
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Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
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Imabari Towels
Yarn is bleached before weaving so it keeps its loft, in water soft enough to make that possible.
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Kikuma Roof Tiles
Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.
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Sakurai Lacquerware
Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.
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Uchikoza Theatre
Built by townspeople to mark an emperor's accession, saved from demolition by campaign, and still playing.
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Uchiko Historic District
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
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Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
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Garyu Sanso
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
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Ozu Castle
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
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Uwajima Castle
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
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Unomachi Historic District
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.
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Kaimei School
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
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Ehime Museum of History and Culture
A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.
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