Takamatsu
Sanuki Lanterns
Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.
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Shodoshima
Olive Groves of Shodoshima
Where olives first took root in Japan; terraces cut into the slopes give the island a Mediterranean look.
KagawaContemporary ArtKanonji
Kotohiki Park
A viewpoint built on the hill so the sand coin below can be read - the vantage point completing the work.
Tonosho
Teshima and its Waste
An island known for illegal industrial dumping became a festival site - and how openly that history is handled remains at issue.
KagawaArchitectureMarugame
Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands
An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.
KagawaContemporary ArtMarugame
Sanuki Fuji and its Reservoirs
Fourteen thousand reservoirs were dug across this dry plain; the cones of its hills and those artificial ponds compose it.
KagawaArchitectureManno
Manno Reservoir
Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
Tonosho
Terraces of Teshima
Abandoned terraces were brought back into cultivation alongside the museum's construction, so field and artwork share one view.
Takamatsu
Lion Dances of Sanuki
Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.
KagawaArchitectureNaoshima
Honmura Village, Naoshima
A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.
KagawaContemporary ArtShodoshima
Kankakei Gorge
Volcanic rock eroded into towers and cliffs, each formation named along the route.
Takamatsu
Stonemasons of Mure
A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Arcades of Takamatsu
Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art
Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.
EhimeArchitectureMatsuyama
Matsuyama Castle
One of twelve surviving keeps, ringed by lesser towers and defended by stone walls climbing the slope itself.
EhimeArchitectureMatsuyama
Dogo Onsen Honkan
A working public bath that is also an Important Cultural Property, extended so often that its interior became a maze.
EhimeMuseumsMatsuyama
Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo
Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.
EhimeMuseumsMatsuyama
Shiki Memorial Museum
For the poet who modernised haiku by preaching sketching from life; his own drawings and sickbed manuscripts survive.
EhimeArchitecture
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Oyamazumi Shrine Treasure Hall
Around forty percent of all Japan's designated National Treasure and Important Cultural Property armour is in this one shrine, dedicated by sea warriors after each victory.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Tokoro Museum Omishima
Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple