YamanashiArchitectureFujiyoshida
Oshi Pilgrim Lodgings
Lodgings for Fuji pilgrims: long narrow plots running back from the road, with a channel drawn in for purification.
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Nishijima Washi
Paper for calligraphy, made since the 1500s and still varied sheet by sheet to control how ink bleeds.
YamanashiArt & CraftsIchikawamisato
Paper and Fireworks of Ichikawa
A paper town that also makes fireworks - the shells are wound from paper, so the two trades grew together.
YamanashiArchitectureKofu
Takeda Clan Residence Site
Shingen ruled from a square residence, not a castle - his saying that people are the castle, left in the ground.
YamanashiArchitectureKai
Shingen Levee
Rather than sealing the river, the levee is deliberately gapped to let water escape - engineering doctrine as landscape.
YamanashiContemporary ArtKoshu
Vineyards of Katsunuma
Trellised vineyards covering the slopes, where Japanese winemaking began; Meiji brick cellars still stand.
YamanashiMuseumsKofu
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Literature
In the same park as the art museum, showing manuscripts as much for the hand as for the text.
YamanashiContemporary ArtOshino
Oshino Hakkai
Eight springs fed by Fuji's groundwater, visited in sequence by pilgrims - belief mapped onto terrain.
YamanashiArt & CraftsFujikawaguchiko
The Five Lakes and Fuji's Viewpoints
The exact spots Hokusai and Hiroshige drew can still be stood on, and the compositions checked against the view.
Tsuru
Yamura and Gunnai Textiles
Thin lustrous silk that sold in Edo for linings and umbrellas, woven in this valley.
YamanashiArchitectureHokuto
Kiyosato Highland Buildings
A highland community founded by an American missionary, its timber lodge buildings still standing in the woods.
YamanashiContemporary ArtHokuto
Koumi Line and the Yatsugatake
A railway at 1,375 metres, a single drawn line across the plateau that photographers return to.
Koshu
Stonemasons of Enzan
Stone that weathers to rust-red, quarried for gardens; the craft includes choosing and setting it, not only cutting.
YamanashiContemporary ArtHokuto
Jindai Zakura
One of Japan's three great cherries: hollowed out and held up by props, standing as a form made by time.
Kofu
Modern Architecture of Kofu
From pseudo-Western schools to postwar modernism, Kofu keeps the layers of a provincial city's modernity.
YamanashiArchitectureHayakawa
Villages of Hayakawa
A pilgrimage stop between two sacred mountains, its houses stepped up stone terraces on a steep slope.
Minobu
Buddhist Implements of Minobu
A temple-gate trade in Buddhist implements, the beads turned and the tassels braided by separate hands.
YamanashiArchitectureKoshu
Zen Temples of Kai
Zen spread here under Takeda patronage, leaving medieval halls and images scattered across the province.
Kofu
Jewellery Quarter of Kofu
A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.
YamanashiArt & CraftsHokuto
Mt Kaikoma and Mountain Worship
A white granite peak worshipped as a body of the god, its climbing path punctuated by stone shrines.
YamanashiArchitectureFujiyoshida
Honcho Street, Fujiyoshida
A street aimed straight at Mt Fuji, its Showa shopfronts and the mountain falling into one frame.
YamanashiArchitectureKofu
Stone Walls of Kofu Castle
The keep is gone; only the rough-stacked stone walls remain, rising in the middle of the modern city.
Fuefuki
Round Stone Deities of Kai
In this basin the roadside deity is not carved into a figure but is simply a rounded stone - a form found almost nowhere else.
YamanashiContemporary ArtNirasaki
Shichiriiwa Cliffs of Nirasaki
Thirty kilometres of cliff formed by pyroclastic flow, with halls dug sideways into the rock face.