Ino
Tosa Papermaking Workshops
To make paper 0.03 mm thick the screen itself must be woven that fine - the precision starts with the tools.
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Shimanto
Thatched Villages of the Shimanto
Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.
Kochi
Butsudan of Tosa
Rich forests made this a woodworking province; its altars pass through carving, lacquer and gilding in turn.
Kochi
Coastal Erosion of Tosa Bay
The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.
KochiArchitectureAki
Doi Kachu, Aki
A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.
Kami
Kagura of Monobe
A mountain valley keeping a rite descended from Onmyodo, whose paper-cut implements have a form of their own.
Yusuhara
Tea Halls of Yusuhara
Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.
Ino
Paper Products of Tosa
A paper province that also made the goods; thickness and fibre are varied for each intended use.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Kochi Castle Town
Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.
KochiArchitectureSakawa
Sakawa Brewery Town
A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.
Kochi
Stone Guardians of Tosa
Local masons' habits show in these guardian lions, most set low to survive typhoons.
Tsuno
Terraces of the Upper Shimanto
Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.
KochiArchitectureNakatosa
Fishing Villages of Nakatosa
A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.
Shimanto
Farmland of the Konan Plateau
Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.
KochiContemporary ArtSukumo
Sunsets of Sukumo
In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.
Shimanto
River Boats of the Shimanto
Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Tosa Fighting Dogs and Festival Form
Fighting dogs are dressed in embroidered aprons modelled on sumo champions' - a rare case of ceremonial textile on an animal.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.
FukuokaMuseumsDazaifu
Kyushu National Museum
Japan's fourth national museum, framed to show Japanese culture as it formed through exchange with the rest of Asia.
FukuokaMuseumsFukuoka
Fukuoka City Museum
Holds the gold seal a farmer dug up in 1784 - 2.3 centimetres of metal that anchors the start of recorded Japanese history.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Textiles
Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple