TokushimaArchitectureMima
Udatsu Street, Wakimachi
An indigo trading town where the firewalls between houses grew ever taller as displays of wealth.
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TokushimaArchitectureTsurugi
Two-Tier Udatsu of Sadamitsu
Firewalls stacked in two tiers - a form found in this town alone, sometimes coloured in the plaster.
TokushimaArchitectureMiyoshi
Iya Vine Bridge
A suspension bridge woven from mountain vine and rebuilt entirely every three years, so the skill can never lapse.
TokushimaArchitectureMiyoshi
Ochiai Village
Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.
Yoshinogawa
Awagami Factory
Kept the hand technique and developed washi for inkjet printing - an old craft finding a current use.
TokushimaContemporary ArtKamiyama
Kamiyama Artist in Residence
A mountain village of 5,000 that has hosted artists for over twenty years; their works remain scattered through it.
TokushimaArchitectureKamikatsu
Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center
Built from windows and doors salvaged across the town, and laid out in plan as a question mark.
TokushimaContemporary ArtAwa
Awa Earth Pillars
Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.
TokushimaArt & CraftsItano
Awa Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar kneaded by hand and pressed into carved wooden moulds - the moulds themselves carved down the generations.
TokushimaMuseumsTokushima
Tokushima Prefectural Museum
The province's general museum, organised around its blue-green stone and the society indigo built.
TokushimaArchitectureTokushima
Bunka no Mori Park
Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.
TokushimaArchitectureNaruto
Ryozenji, Temple One
The start of a 1,400-kilometre pilgrimage, where the white robe, sedge hat and staff are first assembled.
TokushimaContemporary ArtNaruto
Naruto Whirlpools
Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.
TokushimaArchitectureMima
Indigo Merchants of Mima
The storehouses of the indigo traders, built to hold the temperature and damp the fermentation needs.
Miyoshi
Chiiori and the Thatched Houses of Iya
A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.
TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Indigo Vats
Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.
TokushimaContemporary ArtTokushima
Mt Bizan and Tokushima
A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.
TokushimaArchitectureAnan
Anan Coast
A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.
Mugi
Fishing Villages of Mugi
Houses ringed with stone against wind and wave, the whole hamlet built almost as one structure.
Naka
Forestry of Naka
Cedar planted on precipitous slopes and hauled out by sledge; its tight rings go into buildings and barrels.
Ishii
Indigo Fields of Ishii
Indigo planted where the river floods and enriches the soil - a crop chosen to turn disaster into profit.
TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Blue Stone of Awa
A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple