Kumamoto
Obake no Kinta
Pull the string and its eyes roll and its tongue shoots out - a papier-mache doll said to model a retainer of Kato Kiyomasa, with its prototype said to date from the Kaei era.
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KumamotoMuseumsYatsushiro
Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
An early Toyo Ito public building: the store buried underground and grassed over so it reads as a hill.
KumamotoArchitecture
KumamotoArt & Crafts
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Hitoyoshi Castle Ruins
Its walls end in a projecting lip - a rare feature in Japan, thought to come from Western fortification.
KumamotoArchitectureAmakusa
Sakitsu Village
A church at the end of a fishing village lane, its floor laid with tatami so the congregation kneels to pray.
KumamotoArt & CraftsAmakusa
Amakusa Ceramics and Porcelain Stone
Eighty percent of Japan's porcelain stone comes from this island - Arita and Hasami both depend on it.
KumamotoContemporary ArtAso
Grasslands of Aso
A thousand years of deliberate burning keeps this caldera in grass - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Yachiyoza Theatre
Built by merchants pooling shares; its ceiling is covered in their painted advertisements, and it is still a working theatre.
KumamotoArt & CraftsYamaga
Yamaga Lanterns
Shrines and castles built from paper and paste alone - hollow, frameless, and light enough to dance with on the head.
Yamaga
Kutami Persimmon-Tannin Fans
Paper toughened with persimmon tannin - insect-proof, water-resistant, and darkening with use.
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KumamotoArchitectureUki
Misumi West Port
A Dutch engineer's design executed by Amakusa masons - the only Meiji port surviving complete, quay, canal and bridges.
KumamotoArchitectureYamato
Tsujunkyo Aqueduct
A stone aqueduct built to water a dry plateau; to clear its pipes it blasts water from both sides - the first civil structure made a National Treasure.
KumamotoMuseumsMinamata
Minamata Disease Museum
On industrial poisoning and how it was recorded - including the role photography, notably Eugene Smith's, actually played.
KumamotoArt & CraftsArao
Shodai Ware
White straw-ash glaze ladled over a dark iron body - a kiln the Hosokawa lords opened with Korean potters.
KumamotoContemporary ArtKikuchi
Kikuchi Gorge
Rain that fell on Aso resurfaces here; light through the canopy and the water compose differently each season.
KumamotoMuseumsKamiamakusa
Amakusa Shiro and the Rebellion
The record of a rebellion led by a sixteen-year-old; its banners and crosses carry both faith and revolt at once.
KumamotoArchitectureReihoku
Tomioka Castle Ruins
A castle built on a sand spit, using the narrow strip of land between two seas as its defence.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Higo Temari Balls
Geometric patterns stitched over a ball; a pastime of the lords' daughters that became a common toy.
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Shochu Distilleries of Hitoyoshi
Five centuries of rice shochu; the timber distilleries along the river have been repaired after each flood and kept working.
KumamotoContemporary ArtHitoyoshi
The Kuma River
One of Japan's three swiftest rivers; the 2020 flood reshaped its valley and reopened the question of how close to live.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Yamaga Streets
A post town whose street of shops and bathhouses still centres on its theatre.
KumamotoContemporary ArtMinamiaso
Terraces of South Aso
Rice fields on a caldera floor, watered by the springs that surface all across it.
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