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Shokasonjuku Academy
Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.
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Hagi Reverberatory Furnace
A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
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Ebisugahana Shipyard
Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
Oitayama Tatara Iron Works
The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Kikuya Residence
Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.
YamaguchiArchitectureIwakuni
Kintaikyo Bridge
Five wooden arches built to survive floods, assembled almost without nails and rebuilt every twenty years.
YamaguchiArchitectureIwakuni
Iwakuni Castle
A mountain castle and a valley residence linked by the bridge; the rebuilt keep overhangs its lower storey.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsShimonoseki
Shimonoseki City Art Museum
In the birthplace of Kano Hogai, who pushed Nihonga into the modern era; the museum traces how he got there.
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Chofu District
The castle town of a Mori branch house, its lanes walled in tile-laced earth between temples and samurai houses.
Ube
UBE Biennale
Japan's first international open-air sculpture competition; sixty years of prize works have filled the park.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsUbe
Akama Inkstone
Cut from a fine-grained local stone that grinds ink smoothly, its edges carved with dragons and pines.
YamaguchiMuseumsHofu
Mori Museum
The Mori family mansion itself, holding Sesshu's sixteen-metre landscape scroll, shown each autumn.
YamaguchiArchitectureHofu
Suo Kokubunji
One of the few provincial temples where a hall still stands on the original 8th-century site.
YamaguchiArchitectureYanai
Yanai White-Walled District
A merchant town whose goldfish lanterns are said to have been invented after a trader saw the Nebuta floats up north.
Yanai
Yanai Stripe Cloth
Striped cotton that sold widely in the Edo period, lost, and reconstructed from surviving samples.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsShunan
Shunan City Museum of Art and History
Two pillars: a painter of Siberian internment, and the photographer who took the famous portrait of the novelist Dazai.
Nagato
Kazuki Yasuo Museum
A painter who rendered his Siberian captivity as 57 canvases in black and ochre alone, shown in his home village.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtMine
Akiyoshidai Plateau
Japan's largest karst plateau: white limestone pillars scattered through grassland, with ten kilometres of cave beneath.
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Tsunoshima Bridge
Its piers were kept low and its line bent for the view - civil engineering made the subject of the landscape.
Hagi
Samurai Houses of Hagi
Senior retainers' houses, where the height of the gate and wall states the family's rank.
Hagi
Climbing Kilns of Hagi
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillside; the slope and the number of chambers decide how the ware comes out.
YamaguchiMuseumsSuō-Ōshima
Suo Oshima and Tsuneichi Miyamoto
Home of the folklorist who walked all Japan; his hundred thousand photographs record a way of life now gone.
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Ouchi Dolls
A married pair in Ouchi lacquer, their faces barely drawn - the form and the vermilion do the work.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtIwakuni
White Snakes of Iwakuni
A population of white rat snakes bred here; the animal itself is both a natural monument and an object of worship.
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