ShimaneArt & CraftsOkinoshima
Bull Sumo of Oki
Said to have begun to console an exiled emperor, and still ended in a deliberate draw.
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ShimaneContemporary ArtNishinoshima
Kuniga Coast
A caldera rim drowned by the sea and cut into cliffs, with a rock arch left standing in the surf.
ShimaneMuseumsMatsue
Fudoki no Oka
The places named in an 8th-century gazetteer are still where it says they are - text and ground still matching.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Sweets and Tea of Matsue
A tea-master lord's taste made this one of Japan's three great confectionery towns; the moulds are carvings in themselves.
ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Red Tiles of Izumo
Glazed with a local stone that fires red, and tough enough for snow and sea wind - the tile that coloured this whole coast.
Matsue
Canals of Matsue
The castle moat still functions as a working canal; boats lower their roofs to pass beneath the lowest bridges.
ShimaneArchitectureHamada
Mask and Costume Makers of Iwami
Masks are built from layered paper to stay light for violent dancing; the embroidered robes can cost millions of yen.
ShimaneArt & CraftsTsuwano
Heron Dance of Tsuwano
Dancers wear heron wings in a form that died out in Kyoto and survived only here.
Oda
Kumagai Residence
A silver-mine merchant's house of thirty rooms, its rising formality readable from shopfront to inner parlour.
Okinoshima
Boatbuilding of Oki
Boats built from island timber, the curve of the hull adjusted to the sea each village works.
Matsue
Shinto Images of Izumo
Shinto deities carved in human form survive here - made with Buddhist technique but in different dress and mood.
ShimaneContemporary ArtMatsue
Sunset over Lake Shinji
The city has built viewing points for the lake sunset - the position from which a landscape is seen, itself designed.
Ōnan
Terraces of Iwami
Terraces built by stacking stone into steep mountain slopes - a record of turning hillside into stairs.
ShimaneArchitectureHamada
Port of Hamada
The port that shipped the great Sekishu jars out to all Japan, and prospered on the northern trade.
ShimaneContemporary ArtOkinoshima
Oki Geopark
Source of the obsidian carried to the mainland in the Palaeolithic - an island that was a trading origin point.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Ohara Museum of Art
Japan's first museum of Western art, built on paintings a Kurashiki industrialist sent his own painter to Europe to buy.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Kurashiki Bikan District
A shogunal depot town of white storehouses along a canal, its cables buried to keep the view.
OkayamaMuseumsKurashiki
Kurashiki Museum of Folk Craft
Japan's second folk-craft museum, in converted rice warehouses that are themselves a mingei work.
OkayamaMuseumsKurashiki
Kurashiki Archaeological Museum
In an Edo rice store on the same canal as the folk-craft museum, on the tomb culture of the Kibi region.
Kurashiki
Japan Rural Toy Museum
Folk toys arranged by district, so the same subject can be watched changing shape from region to region.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Ohashi Residence
A merchant family enriched by salt and land reclamation, permitted a samurai-style gate their rank shows off.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Former Nozaki Residence
The house of a salt-field magnate, its parlours and six storehouses surviving intact across a hectare.
Kurashiki
Kojima Denim
A tabi and school-uniform town that made Japan's first jeans; its old shuttle looms now supply the world.
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