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Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo
Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.
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Adachi Museum of Art
Ranked Japan's finest garden for over twenty consecutive years by a US journal; its windows are framed to present the garden as a painting.
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Tanabe Art Museum
Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.
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Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.
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Matsue Castle
A National Treasure keep built for war: its columns are wrapped in boards and banded with iron throughout.
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Shiomi Nawate
Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.
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Meimean Tea House
Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.
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Yakumo Lacquerware
Pictures painted in coloured lacquer and covered with clear coats; as the years pass the top clears and the picture brightens.
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Fujina Ware
Its slip technique resembles English country pottery; Bernard Leach came here, and the exchange went both ways.
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Izumo Taisha
The oldest shrine form in Japan; giant triple pillars dug up here support the claim that it once stood 48 metres tall.
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Kojindani Site
Three hundred and fifty-eight swords buried in four neat rows on one slope; nobody knows why.
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Kamo Iwakura Site
Thirty-nine bronze bells buried nested one inside another - the largest such find in Japan.
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Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
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Omori District
Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.
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Sekishu Ware
Great water jars fired so hard they resist salt and acid, sold to kitchens and pickling sheds all over Japan.
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Iwami Art Museum, Grand Toit
Hiroshi Naito clad walls and roof alike in 280,000 local red tiles, wrapped around a courtyard pool.
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Gardens of Sesshu
Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.
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Tsuwano Historic District
Carp swim in the channels beside the street of this castle town, its plan unchanged in a narrow mountain basin.
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Anno Art Museum
For a picture-book artist known worldwide for books without words, in a tile-roofed building by Hiroshi Naito.
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Mori Ogai Memorial Museum
For the army surgeon and novelist; the house he lived in until he was ten stands beside it.
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Taikodani Inari Shrine
A thousand vermilion gates climb the hillside in a single line above the town.