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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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Reimeikan Museum
On the castle site; because this province destroyed its Buddhist art more thoroughly than any other, it also records what was lost.
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Nagashima Museum
On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.
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Shoko Shuseikan
Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.
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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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Satsuma Cut Glass
Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.
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Chiran Samurai District
Seven of its samurai gardens are designated scenic, their clipped hedges borrowing the mountain behind.
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Chiran Peace Museum
On the airfield they flew from, holding the letters teenage pilots left - the handwriting itself part of the record.
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Izumi Fumoto Samurai District
A fumoto - the Satsuma domain's own form of samurai settlement - of 150 houses on a grid, the largest in the province.
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Iriki Fumoto
Walls built from rounded river cobbles - a distinctive technique, since nothing in them has a flat face.
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Kirishima Shrine
Burned repeatedly by eruptions and rebuilt by the Shimazu lords; designated National Treasure in 2022.
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Uenohara Jomon Forest
A settled village 9,500 years old, which rewrote assumptions about when people in Japan stopped moving.
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Sakurajima
Lava from the 1914 eruption filled the strait and turned an island into a peninsula - a landform change fully documented.
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Stone Bridge Memorial Park
Stone arches nearly lost to flood, dismantled and rebuilt here - the work of Kumamoto masons hired into Satsuma.
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Sogi Power Station Ruins
A brick power station drowned by a dam; when the water drops it surfaces whole - a ruin visible only a few months a year.
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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.
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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.
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Mud Dyeing of Amami
Plant dye and mud alternated more than twenty times to reach a black no chemical dye can match.
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Yakushima Forest
Vegetation stacked from subtropical to subarctic by altitude alone; even the logged stumps have grown second trees.
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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.
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Kawanabe Butsudan
Satsuma banned Buddhism outright for a time; altars were made in secret, and when the ban lifted that skill became an industry.