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SagaArt & CraftsTo stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
SagaArt & CraftsMade as presentation and gift ware, never for sale, so nothing was compromised; red, yellow and green are layered over underglaze blue, and even the underside and foot ring follow a fixed standard.
SagaArt & CraftsRanked third among tea wares after Raku and Hagi; its coarse clay and quick iron-drawn grasses were chosen for their plainness.
SagaArt & CraftsFloats built from hundreds of layers of paper finished in lacquer and gold - light, strong, and still hauled after two centuries.
SagaMuseumsAll fourteen floats on permanent view, close enough to read the depth of the lacquer.
SagaArchitectureA coal baron's house with a Noh stage built into it, and 72 painted cedar doors, no two rooms alike.
SagaArchitectureKingo Tatsuno, born here, oversaw this for his home town, and his pupil drew it in the master's manner.
SagaArchitectureBuilt in a single year as the base for invading Korea, ringed by 130 lords' camps - and abandoned seven years later.
SagaContemporary ArtA million pines planted as a windbreak four centuries ago, now a designated Place of Special Scenic Beauty.
SagaMuseumsJapan's largest Yayoi settlement, its moats, palisades and watchtowers reconstructed across forty hectares.
SagaArchitectureJapan's first full timber reconstruction of a castle palace, including a 320-mat hall rebuilt with few columns.
SagaMuseumsA private museum built by the Nabeshima family, holding photographs the domain itself took in the 1860s.
SagaArchitectureWhere Japan's first working steamship was built; the timber dock survives underground and is deliberately left buried.
SagaArchitectureA lord's garden three years in the making, now overlaid each summer night by teamLab's light works.
SagaArchitectureTatsuno built this vermilion gate at home; eight zodiac animals are carved in its ceiling - the missing four turned up in Tokyo Station.
SagaArchitectureTwo streets preserved side by side: one of white-walled breweries, one of thatched townhouses.
SagaArchitectureA river port whose merchant houses raise their upper floors high and seal their walls thick against fire.
A district with no fixed house style, and lately one that works with outside designers rather than tradition.
SagaArt & CraftsGold-leafed paper slit into warp threads and woven with silk - said to have been conceived by a lord's wife studying her ceiling.
Said to descend from Mongol prisoners of the 13th-century invasions; its dove whistles died out and were revived.
Large, strongly coloured clay dolls in the Hakata manner, kept going by a single workshop and its moulds.
Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.
SagaArt & CraftsFour kilometres of stalls and half a million visitors - the whole district's output visible in one week.
BEFORE EXPLORING JAPAN · Getting to know Japanese culture
Two places you will come across on your trip. A shrine enshrines the kami of Shinto; a temple is a place to face the teachings of Buddhism and the Buddhas. Their entrances and the etiquette for visiting also differ.
A shrine honors Shinto kami; a temple follows Buddhist teachings. Learn how to recognize each place and visit respectfully.
Hakodate Hachimangu · ShrineTorii Torii gateAbout shrinesTorii gates, the kami, and two bows, two claps, one bow. The order of worship is also introduced.See the shrine guide →
Koryuji · TempleSanmon Temple gateAbout templesThe temple gate, joining your palms, and the Buddhas. The Thirteen Buddhas and the etiquette for visiting are also introduced.See the temple guide →Follow the guidance of each shrine or temple for the actual etiquette.