Yamaga
Kutami Persimmon-Tannin Fans
Paper toughened with persimmon tannin - insect-proof, water-resistant, and darkening with use.
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KumamotoArt & CraftsArao
Shodai Ware
White straw-ash glaze ladled over a dark iron body - a kiln the Hosokawa lords opened with Korean potters.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Higo Temari Balls
Geometric patterns stitched over a ball; a pastime of the lords' daughters that became a common toy.
Kumamoto
Bamboo and Wood of Kumamoto
A bamboo province making baskets and farm tools, their forms arrived at purely through use.
OitaArt & CraftsBeppu
Beppu Bamboo Craft
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
OitaArt & Crafts
OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Himedaruma of Taketa
A papier-mache daruma in female form, drawn from a samurai wife's story and still made by one family.
OitaArt & CraftsHita
Hita Cedar and Woodwork
Cedar planted under direct shogunal management; at one point this town made more wooden clogs than anywhere in Japan.
Beppu
Bamboo Artists of Oita
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
MiyazakiArchitectureMiyakonojo
Miyakonojo Bows
Bamboo and sumac laminated with hide glue through over two hundred steps; most Japanese bamboo bows are made here.
Miyazaki
Sadowara Clay Dolls
Clay dolls counted among the sources of the Kyushu tradition, still made from Edo-period moulds.
Takachiho
Kagura Masks of Hyuga
Each hamlet has its own carver, so the same character wears a different face; broken masks are recut and the line renews.
Aya
Weaving and Dyeing of Miyazaki
Studios in Aya dye with plants from the protected forest - conservation and dye supply tied together.
Hyuga
Stonework of Hyuga
Soft tuff quarried for lanterns and walls; its workability is why stone culture is dense in this province.
Takachiho
Kagura Costume and Paper Cuts
Cut paper hung on four sides of the dancing floor, its patterns diagramming a whole cosmology.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Satsuma Ware
Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Miyama Pottery Village
The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Satsuma Cut Glass
Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Silk
Thread dyed with a local shrub and then trodden into iron-rich mud to blacken; the kasuri threads are themselves woven first on a separate loom.
Amami
Mud Dyeing of Amami
Plant dye and mud alternated more than twenty times to reach a black no chemical dye can match.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsYakushima
Yakusugi Woodcraft
Only stumps left by Edo-period logging may be used; no living tree is cut, and the timber is three centuries old before it starts.
Minamikyushu
Kawanabe Butsudan
Satsuma banned Buddhism outright for a time; altars were made in secret, and when the ban lifted that skill became an industry.
Nishinoomote
Tanegashima Scissors
Gunsmithing turned to scissors; steel is forge-welded to soft iron to shape the blades and handles.