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Misumi West Port
A Dutch engineer's design executed by Amakusa masons - the only Meiji port surviving complete, quay, canal and bridges.
KumamotoArchitectureYamato
Tsujunkyo Aqueduct
A stone aqueduct built to water a dry plateau; to clear its pipes it blasts water from both sides - the first civil structure made a National Treasure.
KumamotoMuseumsMinamata
Minamata Disease Museum
On industrial poisoning and how it was recorded - including the role photography, notably Eugene Smith's, actually played.
KumamotoArt & CraftsArao
Shodai Ware
White straw-ash glaze ladled over a dark iron body - a kiln the Hosokawa lords opened with Korean potters.
KumamotoContemporary ArtKikuchi
Kikuchi Gorge
Rain that fell on Aso resurfaces here; light through the canopy and the water compose differently each season.
KumamotoMuseumsKamiamakusa
Amakusa Shiro and the Rebellion
The record of a rebellion led by a sixteen-year-old; its banners and crosses carry both faith and revolt at once.
KumamotoArchitectureReihoku
Tomioka Castle Ruins
A castle built on a sand spit, using the narrow strip of land between two seas as its defence.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Higo Temari Balls
Geometric patterns stitched over a ball; a pastime of the lords' daughters that became a common toy.
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Shochu Distilleries of Hitoyoshi
Five centuries of rice shochu; the timber distilleries along the river have been repaired after each flood and kept working.
KumamotoContemporary ArtHitoyoshi
The Kuma River
One of Japan's three swiftest rivers; the 2020 flood reshaped its valley and reopened the question of how close to live.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Yamaga Streets
A post town whose street of shops and bathhouses still centres on its theatre.
KumamotoContemporary ArtMinamiaso
Terraces of South Aso
Rice fields on a caldera floor, watered by the springs that surface all across it.
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Contemporary Architecture of Kumamoto
Public housing from the Artpolis programme, scattered across the province and judged by how people go on living in it.
Amakusa
Churches of Amakusa
Churches scattered through island villages, each paid for by its own congregation once the ban was lifted.
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Stone Bridges of the Taneyama Masons
The masons who built Tsujunkyo left dozens of arches across the province, each betraying their school in how it is laid.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Kikuchi Fortress
A mountain fort raised after a defeat abroad, against an invasion that never came; its octagonal tower is rebuilt.
Aso
Kagura of Higo
Fire is swung in circles at Aso's rites; each village's masks are carved differently and repaired down the years.
Ashikita
Shiranui of the Yatsushiro Sea
On one night of the lunar calendar a mirage lines the sea with fires - recorded since antiquity, and the source of a place name.
Kumamoto
Bamboo and Wood of Kumamoto
A bamboo province making baskets and farm tools, their forms arrived at purely through use.
Amakusa
Porcelain Stone Quarries of Amakusa
White quarry faces cut into the hills; the porcelain of Arita is made of stone carried away from here.
Yamaga
The Buzen Highway
The road between Kumamoto and Kokura; its post towns keep enough houses to read the highway's scale.
KumamotoArt & CraftsTamana
Stone Figures of Tamana
Stone figures set around burial mounds, carved from Aso welded tuff and found almost only in northern Kyushu.
Uto
Great Camphors of Uto
Thousand-year camphors in shrine precincts; Kyushu keeps an unusual number of these giants.