MieMuseumsMeiwa
Saiku Historical Museum
The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.
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MieArchitectureOwase
Kumano Kodo Iseji
Stone paving laid so the rain could not wash the path away - a structure built for walking that became the landscape.
MieContemporary ArtTsu
Pseudo-Western Buildings of Tsu
As the provincial capital, Tsu keeps Meiji public buildings in which local carpenters read Western style their own way.
MieArchitectureIse
Okage Yokocho
A street rebuilt in the gable-fronted form typical of Ise, showing how a pilgrimage town was shaped.
MieContemporary Art
MieContemporary ArtShima
Ria Coast of Shima
Drowned valleys forming a maze of inlets, across which pearl rafts lay out their regular artificial lines.
MieArchitectureKuwana
Tado Taisha
Halls set along a mountain stream, with a rite in which horses charge straight up an earth bank.
MieContemporary ArtNabari
Akame Waterfalls
Four kilometres of continuous waterfalls, used as a training ground by mountain ascetics.
Owase
Owase Cypress Forestry
Cypress grown in one of Japan's wettest places; dense planting and thinning rule the slopes into pattern.
Iga
Iga Ueno Castle Town
Streets deliberately bent at right angles for defence, the layout still as Todo Takatora planned it.
Kameyama
Candles of Kameyama
Candle making began in the Showa period and developed as a local industry; the Japanese candle is wound from paper and rush pith.
Toba
Tools of the Ama Divers
The gear of free-diving women, their cloth still stitched with star and grid marks to ward off harm.
Kuwana
Ring Levees of Kuwana
Whole villages ringed by their own levees, each homestead keeping a stone-raised refuge building against flood.
MieArchitectureYokkaichi
Industrial Landscape of Yokkaichi
A petrochemical complex that at night becomes an assembly of light - a landscape that also carries a pollution history.
Ise
Gikakushi Paper of Ise
Paper lacquered and embossed to pass as leather, made for pilgrims, lost, and recently reconstructed.
Tsu
Heian Buddhas of Mie
On the road between the capital and Ise, so small temples here keep an unusual number of Heian images.
Shima
Fishing Villages of Shima
Stone piled into the narrow inlets to make level ground, and houses set along it - a village shaped by terrain.
MieArchitectureKuwana
Flood Works of Nagashima
Levees built by the Satsuma domain under shogunal order still divide three rivers and govern the terrain.
Iga
Thatched Houses of Iga
Thatched farmhouses around the basin rim, the pitch and orientation of each roof set by wind and snow.
ShigaArt & CraftsOtsu
Shiga Museum of Art
The first public museum in Japan to make art brut a collecting pillar - work by makers who never trained, taken seriously.
ShigaArt & CraftsKoka
MIHO MUSEUM
By I.M. Pei, architect of the Louvre pyramid: a tunnel bored through a mountain and a suspension bridge, modelled on a Chinese vision of paradise.
ShigaArt & CraftsMoriyama
Sagawa Art Museum
Three pavilions seeming to float on water, including an underground tea room designed by the fifteenth Raku master himself.
ShigaMuseumsOtsu
Otsu City Museum of History
Built around Otsu-e folk paintings and the Buddhist art of Mt Hiei, in the town that served both.
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