Ino
Tosa Washi
Its tengujo is the thinnest handmade paper in the world - 0.03 mm - and is used to conserve artworks globally.
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KochiMuseumsIno
Ino Paper Museum
On the river that made the paper, following the process from bark to the thinnest sheet in the world.
Kami
Tosa Blades
Forged without templates, each blade shaped to its order - a trade built on hatchets and sickles for mountain work.
KochiMuseumsKami
Yanase Takashi Memorial Museum
For the creator of Anpanman, who found his great subject in his mid-fifties, and who was also a poet.
KochiNature & SceneryShimanto
Submersible Bridges of the Shimanto
Bridges built without railings, designed to be submerged by floods rather than resist them.
KochiContemporary ArtShimanto
The Shimanto River
No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.
Yusuhara
Kengo Kuma Buildings in Yusuhara
Six Kuma buildings in a mountain village of three thousand, each designed outward from locally sourced cedar and thatch.
Yusuhara
Yusuhara Community Library
Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.
KochiContemporary ArtKitagawa
Monet's Garden Marmottan
Giverny recreated in a mountain valley with the foundation's blessing - and here the blue water lilies Monet never got actually bloom.
KochiArchitectureAki
Nora Dokei
A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.
Aki
Tosa Plaster and Drip Tiles
Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.
Aki
Uchiharano Ware
Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.
KochiContemporary ArtMuroto
Cape Muroto
Each earthquake lifts the coast a little more, leaving terraces - a global geopark where the ground's movement is legible.
KochiArchitectureMuroto
Hotsumisakiji
Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.
KochiContemporary ArtTosashimizu
Tatsukushi Coast
Sandstone eaten by wind and wave into honeycombs and marbled surfaces - a shoreline carved by weather.
KochiContemporary ArtTosashimizu
Cape Ashizuri
Granite cliffs at Shikoku's southern tip, reached through a tunnel of camellia branches.
KochiMuseumsTosashimizu
John Manjiro Museum
A castaway who reached America and returned as an interpreter; copies of the phrasebook he made survive.
Kochi
Kochi Sunday Market
A street market held for over three centuries; once a week a city avenue changes character entirely.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Yosakoi Festival
Invented after the war to lift a depressed city; each team makes its own costume and music, and the form spread nationwide.
KochiContemporary ArtKochi
Katsurahama Beach
A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Chikurinji
The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Hirome Market
Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.
KochiContemporary ArtNiyodogawa
The Niyodo River
Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Tosa Coral Carving
Red coral from these waters, carved over months by hands working a material that shatters if pushed.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple