HiroshimaArt & CraftsMiyoshi
Okuda Genso Sayume Art Museum
For a painter and a doll artist, husband and wife; on full-moon nights it stays open so the moon can be watched in its pond.
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HiroshimaArt & CraftsMiyoshi
Miyoshi Clay Dolls
Called shining dolls for their gloss; one family still makes them, using moulds from the Edo period.
HiroshimaArchitectureKure
Irifuneyama Memorial Museum
A naval commander's residence joining Western and Japanese wings, its walls hung with embossed gilt-leather paper.
HiroshimaArt & CraftsKumano
Kumano Brushes
Eight in ten Japanese brushes; the hair tips are never cut, so the point forms itself.
Fuchu
Fuchu Furniture
A wedding-furniture town where the trades divide the work and compete on the precision of the joinery.
Fukuyama
Fukuyama Koto
Over sixty percent of Japan's koto; the sound is cut into the paulownia body as a pattern of grooves inside the lid.
Yamaguchi
Tokuji Washi
Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.
YamaguchiArt & Crafts
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.
Hagi
Climbing Kilns of Hagi
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillside; the slope and the number of chambers decide how the ware comes out.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsYamaguchi
Ouchi Dolls
A married pair in Ouchi lacquer, their faces barely drawn - the form and the vermilion do the work.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
The Seven Changes of Hagi
Tea seeps into the crazing and the colour keeps changing - the maker does not decide when the bowl is finished.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
Korean Potters of Hagi
The families of the abducted Korean potters still run kilns here - a transfer of technique preserved as lineage.
TokushimaArt & CraftsNaruto
Otsuka Museum of Art
A thousand Western masterpieces reproduced full size on ceramic panels said to last two millennia - including works long destroyed.
TokushimaMuseumsTokushima
Awa Odori Kaikan
On a dance four centuries old, where each troupe's matched coats and hats work as its emblem.
Naruto
Otani Ware
Great jars thrown on a wheel kicked by a man lying on his back while another shapes the clay - a method born of indigo vats.
Yoshinogawa
Awagami Factory
Kept the hand technique and developed washi for inkjet printing - an old craft finding a current use.
TokushimaArt & CraftsItano
Awa Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar kneaded by hand and pressed into carved wooden moulds - the moulds themselves carved down the generations.
Tokushima
Indigo Vats
Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.
Mima
Umbrellas and Lanterns of Mima
Umbrellas and lanterns of bamboo and paper, some covered in indigo-dyed sheets.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Folk Craft Museum
Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.
Takamatsu
Aji Granite
Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Temari Balls
Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.