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Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
A Maekawa building inside the castle grounds, with decorated tomb chambers rebuilt full size to be entered like the originals.
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Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
On the third floor of a shopping building and run together with a bookshop, with permanent rooms commissioned from artists.
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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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Chibusan Tomb
Geometric patterns and figures painted on the chamber wall; two circles read as breasts gave the tomb its name.
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Kumamoto Castle
Its walls curve outward as they rise so no one can climb them; since the 2016 quake they are being rebuilt stone by numbered stone.
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Suizenji Jojuen
The old Tokaido highway compressed into a garden, with a grassed mound standing in for Mt Fuji.
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Shimada Museum of Arts
Miyamoto Musashi died in this city; the museum holds his own writing and the wooden swords said to be his.
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Kumamoto Artpolis
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
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Former Hosokawa Gyobu Residence
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
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Higo Inlay
Fine grooves cut into iron and filled with hammered gold and silver - a sword-fitting craft now turned to jewellery.
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Obake no Kinta
Pull the string and its eyes roll and its tongue shoots out - a papier-mache doll said to model a retainer of Kato Kiyomasa, with its prototype said to date from the Kaei era.
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Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
An early Toyo Ito public building: the store buried underground and grassed over so it reads as a hill.
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Aoi Aso Shrine
Thatched roofs over Momoyama polychromy - the southernmost shrine buildings designated National Treasure.
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Hitoyoshi Castle Ruins
Its walls end in a projecting lip - a rare feature in Japan, thought to come from Western fortification.
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Sakitsu Village
A church at the end of a fishing village lane, its floor laid with tatami so the congregation kneels to pray.
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Amakusa Ceramics and Porcelain Stone
Eighty percent of Japan's porcelain stone comes from this island - Arita and Hasami both depend on it.
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Aso Shrine
Its two-storey gate collapsed in the 2016 earthquake; the timbers were salvaged and it took seven years to raise again.
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Grasslands of Aso
A thousand years of deliberate burning keeps this caldera in grass - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
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Yachiyoza Theatre
Built by merchants pooling shares; its ceiling is covered in their painted advertisements, and it is still a working theatre.
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Yamaga Lanterns
Shrines and castles built from paper and paste alone - hollow, frameless, and light enough to dance with on the head.
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Kutami Persimmon-Tannin Fans
Paper toughened with persimmon tannin - insect-proof, water-resistant, and darkening with use.