EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Imabari Towels
Yarn is bleached before weaving so it keeps its loft, in water soft enough to make that possible.
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EhimeArt & Crafts
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Kikuma Roof Tiles
Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Sakurai Lacquerware
Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Uchikoza Theatre
Built by townspeople to mark an emperor's accession, saved from demolition by campaign, and still playing.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Uchiko Historic District
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Garyu Sanso
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Ozu Castle
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
EhimeArchitectureUwajima
Uwajima Castle
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
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EhimeArchitectureSeiyo
Unomachi Historic District
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.
EhimeArchitectureSeiyo
Kaimei School
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
EhimeMuseumsSeiyo
Ehime Museum of History and Culture
A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.
EhimeArt & Crafts
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Iyo Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.
Matsuyama
Himedaruma Dolls
A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.
EhimeArchitectureNiihama
Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru
Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.
EhimeMuseumsShikokuchūō
Paper Town Museum
In the city with Japan's highest output of paper products, covering everything from hand sheets to machine rolls.
EhimeArt & CraftsUchiko
Kites of Ikazaki
Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.
EhimeArt & CraftsUwajima
Ushioni of Uwajima
A six-metre papier-mache beast with an ox's body and a demon's head, its neck stretched to poke into the eaves.
EhimeArt & CraftsKumakōgen
Kuma Museum of Art
A museum in a mountain town, built on modern oil paintings gathered by a local businessman.
EhimeArchitectureImabari
Kirosan Observatory
Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.
EhimeArchitectureImabari
Imabari Castle
Built on the sea with saltwater moats - Todo Takatora's design joining harbour and fortress as one.
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