WakayamaArchitectureKoya
Nyonindo and the Women's Path
While women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.
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WakayamaArt & CraftsIwade
Negoro Lacquer Technique
Made by monks for their own use; stripped of ornament and built only for strength, the utility became the style.
WakayamaContemporary ArtShirahama
Coastal Rock Forms of Shirahama
Sandstone planed flat by waves, and an islet pierced by a round hole the setting sun drops through.
Wakayama
Kishu Tokugawa Furnishings
Furnishings made for one of the three Tokugawa houses; the wedding sets were designed as a single coordinated suite.
Koya
Sculptors of Koyasan
Many images here were carved for the mountain by the capital's leading sculptors, so the workshops can be traced.
WakayamaArchitectureGobō
Gobo Temple Town
A town grown around a temple, its grid plan still legible in the streets.
WakayamaArchitectureKushimoto
Kushimoto Coast
One of Japan's earliest stone lighthouses, by Richard Brunton, standing on the cliffs of Kashinozaki at the eastern end of Kii Oshima.
Wakayama
Kilns of Kishu
Several kilns nurtured by the Kishu domain survive, among them a celadon imitation made for the lord's own use.
WakayamaContemporary ArtKozagawa
Ichimai-iwa of Kozagawa
A single rock face eight hundred metres wide standing over the river - among the largest monoliths in Japan and a National Natural Monument.
WakayamaArt & CraftsHashimoto
Pile Fabrics of Koyaguchi
Cotton raised into a pile until it reads as fur; most of Japan's pile fabric is woven in this valley.
Kainan
Lacquer Wholesalers of Kuroe
The warehouses of the lacquer wholesalers survive, showing how making and distribution worked as one.
WakayamaArt & CraftsShingu
Kumano Picture Preaching
Nuns walked all Japan explaining a painted mandala of heaven and hell - pictures used as the instrument of preaching.
WakayamaArchitectureWakayama
Tomogashima Fortifications
Meiji brick gun batteries left on an island, now overgrown - engineering become ruin landscape.
Koya
Ritual Implements of Koyasan
Metal implements for esoteric ritual - made to be used, yet every form is a symbol.
TottoriArt & CraftsKurayoshi
Tottori Prefectural Museum of Art
A new prefectural museum whose purchase of Warhol's Brillo Boxes became a public argument about what art is worth.
TottoriMuseumsTottori
Tottori Folk Crafts Museum
Founded by a doctor who did not merely collect folk craft but commissioned new designs from living potters.
Tottori
Takumi Craft Shop
Across the street from the museum, selling not the collection but what is being made now - the same doctor's experiment.
TottoriMuseumsTottori
Tottori Prefectural Museum
At the foot of the castle hill, holding the Ikeda lords' furnishings and the province's art.
TottoriArchitecture
TottoriArt & CraftsTottori
Watanabe Art Museum
Thirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.
Tottori
Inshu Washi
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
Tottori
Ushinoto Ware
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
Tottori
Nakai Kiln
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
TottoriContemporary ArtTottori
Tottori Sand Dunes
Wind redraws the ripple patterns every night - a design remade daily, and photographed for a century.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple