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EhimeContemporary ArtMatsuyama
Kashima Island
Seen from the shore it reads as a green mass floating on the sea - the archetype of an Inland Sea view.
Seiyo
Uwa Rice Museum
A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.
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Mt Ishizuchi
The highest peak in western Japan, climbed on three sets of hanging chains provided as part of the pilgrimage.
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Artesian Wells of Saijo
Three thousand wells rise of their own pressure through the town - water built into the streets themselves.
Shikokuchūō
Iyo Mizuhiki
A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.
EhimeContemporary ArtYawatahama
Terraced Fields of Yawatahama
Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea - said to be cultivated all the way to heaven.
Uwajima
Date Family of Uwajima
Ruled by a branch of the Sendai Date house; its armour and furnishings share motifs with the main family's.
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Ozu Historic Streets
A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.
Uchiko
Coopers of Ehime
Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.
Seiyo
Kagura of Nanyo
Dances in animal masks - deer above all - with each village's masks carved differently.
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Shipyards of Imabari
Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Haiku in the Streets of Matsuyama
Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.
Imabari
Citrus Groves of Omishima
Citrus terraces cover the island's slopes; Toyo Ito has worked here on tying farming back to architecture.
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Cormorant Fishing on the Hiji
On winter mornings a river fog pours down to the sea; the river changes character with the season.
Uwajima
Pilgrimage Temples of Nanyo
The southern temples lie deep in the hills, where the paved pilgrim road and its distance markers survive longest.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
The Museum of Art, Kochi
Among Japan's major Chagall holdings, in a building faced with local plaster and tile, and fitted with a Noh stage.
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Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center
The photographer whose images of Katsura changed how Japanese architecture is seen; all 34,000 of his works came here.
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Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum
On a headland with galleries cantilevered over the Pacific, holding letters whose handwriting breaks into something like drawing.
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Kochi Castle
The only castle in Japan keeping both its keep and its main palace, fitted with stone spouts against the heavy rain.
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Makino Botanical Garden
Holds the botanist Makino's exacting plant drawings, under timber roofs that Naito made ripple along the slope.
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Kochi Museum of History
On the Chosokabe clan's castle site, covering medieval Tosa and the province's folk material.
Konan
Ekin Festival, Akaoka
For two nights a year the screens are set out along the shopfronts and lit only by candles - as they were meant to be seen.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple