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Tanegashima Gun Museum
The matchlock that arrived in 1543 beside the copies local smiths made - and the record of how the screw thread defeated them.
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Tanegashima Scissors
Gunsmithing turned to scissors; steel is forge-welded to soft iron to shape the blades and handles.
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Koshikijima Villages
Cobble walls line the island lanes; houses sit low inside them against the typhoons.
Minamisatsuma
Kaseda Fumoto
Cobble walls and hedges in a samurai settlement - a village form produced by Satsuma's system of scattered garrisons.
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Kamo Fumoto and the Great Camphor
Japan's largest camphor tree, 24 metres around, stands in the shrine at the centre of the samurai settlement.
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Terayama Charcoal Kiln and Sekiyoshi Sluice
The kiln that made the furnace's fuel and the channel that brought its water - the supporting infrastructure, included in the listing.
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Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
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The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma
In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.
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Shiroyama and the Castle Walls
Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami
Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.
Amami
Takakura Granaries of Amami
Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.
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Oshima Tsumugi Village
The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtKirishima
Volcanic Landscape of Kirishima
Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtIbusuki
Sand Baths of Ibusuki
Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.
Izumi
The Fumoto Village Form
Instead of one castle, samurai were settled in over a hundred fortified villages across the province.
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Metalwork of Satsuma
Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.
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White Satsuma
Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.
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Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtAmami
Subtropical Forest of Amami
Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsTokunoshima
Bullfighting of Tokunoshima
Each hamlet keeps its own bull; the harness and rope designs work as the village's emblem.
Shibushi
Shibushi District
A port that also held a samurai settlement, its stone walls and hedges in the Satsuma manner.
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Burial Mounds of Osumi
Southern Kyushu has its own burial type - a shaft dug down and a chamber cut sideways, found nowhere else.
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Sendai Fumoto
River cobbles walling off each plot - the technique of stacking round stone shared across this district.
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Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki
Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.