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Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
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Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
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Rurikoji Pagoda
One of Japan's three finest pagodas; its cypress-bark roofs thin and curve as the storeys taper upward.
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Sesshu Garden, Joeiji
Attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, and read as applying the composition of painting to stone and water.
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Xavier Memorial Church
Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.
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Ouchi Lacquerware
Made by the Ouchi lords for trade with Ming China: gold lozenges and autumn grasses on vermilion.
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Tokuji Washi
Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.
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Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum
For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.
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Hagi Castle Town
An Edo map still works as a street map here; the citrus behind every wall was planted to support unemployed samurai.
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Hagi Museum
Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.
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Shokasonjuku Academy
Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.
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Hagi Reverberatory Furnace
A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
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Ebisugahana Shipyard
Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.
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Oitayama Tatara Iron Works
The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.
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Kikuya Residence
Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.
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Kintaikyo Bridge
Five wooden arches built to survive floods, assembled almost without nails and rebuilt every twenty years.
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Iwakuni Castle
A mountain castle and a valley residence linked by the bridge; the rebuilt keep overhangs its lower storey.
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Shimonoseki City Art Museum
In the birthplace of Kano Hogai, who pushed Nihonga into the modern era; the museum traces how he got there.
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Akama Shrine
Dedicated to the child emperor drowned at Dannoura, its vermilion gate modelled on an undersea palace.
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Chofu District
The castle town of a Mori branch house, its lanes walled in tile-laced earth between temples and samurai houses.
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UBE Biennale
Japan's first international open-air sculpture competition; sixty years of prize works have filled the park.
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Akama Inkstone
Cut from a fine-grained local stone that grinds ink smoothly, its edges carved with dragons and pines.