Akitakata
Geihoku Kagura
Descended from the Iwami tradition, with serpents and demons whose robes cost millions and whose masks are made of paper.
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HiroshimaArchitectureMihara
Mihara Castle Town
Called the floating castle because the tide reached its walls; the stonework now sits beneath the railway station.
HiroshimaArchitectureEtajima
Former Naval Academy, Etajima
A naval academy built from bricks shipped in from England, its identical blocks a finished form of Meiji officialdom.
HiroshimaArchitectureTakehara
Okunoshima Ruins
An island once erased from maps; the concrete remains of its poison-gas works are kept, overgrown, as record.
HiroshimaArchitectureFukuyama
Fukuyama Castle
A turret moved here from Fushimi survives; its keep was armoured with iron plate on the north face alone.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsOnomichi
Onomichi in Film
Filmed again and again from Ozu onward; the same slope and level crossing keep reappearing in different decades.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima Butsudan
Gilded altars grown from a strongly Pure Land region, finished by six separate trades in sequence.
HiroshimaContemporary ArtShobara
Taishakukyo Gorge
A ninety-metre natural bridge left where limestone dissolved away - a structure built by water alone.
HiroshimaContemporary ArtAkiota
Sandankyo Gorge
Sixteen kilometres of granite gorge, with stretches passable only by ferry between vertical walls.
HiroshimaContemporary Art
HiroshimaContemporary ArtHiroshima
Oyster Rafts of Hiroshima Bay
Rafts laid out in ranks across the bay - four centuries of oyster farming drawing geometry on the water.
HiroshimaArchitectureKure
Shipyards of Kure
The docks that built battleships still work; the rank of giant cranes states the scale directly.
Onomichi
Warehouse Reuse in Onomichi
Harbour warehouses and abandoned hillside houses repaired one at a time by residents - preservation by accumulation.
HiroshimaContemporary ArtFukuyama
Rose Park, Fukuyama
Residents planted a thousand roses in a burned-out city - an intention to recover, turned into a landscape.
Hiroshima
Prints of Hiroshima
Printmaking was chosen to carry the memory of the bomb precisely because prints can be multiplied and sent out.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsYamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtYamaguchi
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
YamaguchiArchitectureYamaguchi
Xavier Memorial Church
Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.
Yamaguchi
Ouchi Lacquerware
Made by the Ouchi lords for trade with Ming China: gold lozenges and autumn grasses on vermilion.
Yamaguchi
Tokuji Washi
Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.
YamaguchiMuseumsYamaguchi
Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum
For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Hagi Castle Town
An Edo map still works as a street map here; the citrus behind every wall was planted to support unemployed samurai.
YamaguchiArt & Crafts
YamaguchiMuseumsHagi
Hagi Museum
Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.
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