NagasakiArchitectureHirado
Hirado Streets
From one slope a church spire appears over temple roofs - two faiths caught in a single frame.
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NagasakiArchitectureGoto
Churches of the Goto Islands
Over fifty churches across these islands, most by one local master carpenter who mixed timber and brick into a form of his own.
NagasakiArchitectureShinkamigoto
Tetsukawa Yosuke's Churches
A carpenter who taught himself Western building and invented a way to raise rib vaults in timber.
Tsushima
Stone Roofs of Tsushima
Sheds roofed with split stone, because the wind here tears thatch away.
Nagasaki
Chinese Temples of Nagasaki
Four temples built by resident Chinese - examples that brought in Chinese styles through Chinese and Japanese craftsmen.
NagasakiArchitectureNagasaki
Hillside City of Nagasaki
Houses stacked in a bowl of hills, some slopes too steep for cars - so inclined lifts were installed to carry goods.
NagasakiContemporary ArtShimabara
Springs of Shimabara
Groundwater from the volcano surfaces in the streets and carp swim the channels - disaster and benefit from the same mountain.
NagasakiArt & CraftsNagasaki
Nagasaki Prints
Souvenir prints of foreign ships and visitors - and the earliest Japanese pictures to use Western shading.
NagasakiArchitectureSasebo
Former Naval Facilities of Sasebo
A city built as a naval port, its brick warehouses and yards still ranged along the water.
Hirado
Dutch Wall of Hirado
Fragments of the wall that enclosed the Dutch post, laid in a way no Japanese mason would have used.
NagasakiArchitectureUnzen
Obama and Unzen Spa Buildings
A spa opened as a hill station for foreigners, with Western hotels and a church built up in the mountains.
NagasakiArchitectureGoto
Hidden Christian Villages of Goto
Villages founded by Christians in hiding; the altar concealed in a back room still shows in how the houses are planned.
Nagasaki
Stone Paving and Masons of Nagasaki
The skill that built the stone bridges also paved the slopes - a hillside city assembled in stone.
NagasakiMuseumsTsushima
Korean Embassies at Tsushima
The domain that received the Korean embassies, keeping painted processions and a scholar's argument for equal diplomacy.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
A Maekawa building inside the castle grounds, with decorated tomb chambers rebuilt full size to be entered like the originals.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
On the third floor of a shopping building and run together with a bookshop, with permanent rooms commissioned from artists.
KumamotoMuseumsYamaga
Museum of Decorated Tumuli
Half of Japan's painted tomb chambers are in Kyushu and most of those in Kumamoto - abstract circles and triangles drawn in the 400s.
KumamotoMuseumsYamaga
Chibusan Tomb
Geometric patterns and figures painted on the chamber wall; two circles read as breasts gave the tomb its name.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Kumamoto Castle
Its walls curve outward as they rise so no one can climb them; since the 2016 quake they are being rebuilt stone by numbered stone.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Suizenji Jojuen
The old Tokaido highway compressed into a garden, with a grassed mound standing in for Mt Fuji.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Shimada Museum of Arts
Miyamoto Musashi died in this city; the museum holds his own writing and the wooden swords said to be his.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Kumamoto Artpolis
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Former Hosokawa Gyobu Residence
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
Kumamoto
Higo Inlay
Fine grooves cut into iron and filled with hammered gold and silver - a sword-fitting craft now turned to jewellery.
Hakodate Hachimangu · Shrine
Koryuji · Temple