Marugame
Marugame Fans
Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.
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KagawaArt & CraftsHigashikagawa
Sanuki Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.
KagawaMuseumsSanuki
Hiraga Gennai Museum
For the inventor Hiraga Gennai, whose kiln pressed maps and Western pictures onto the surface of pottery.
Takamatsu
Sanuki Lanterns
Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.
Takamatsu
Stonemasons of Mure
A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Kikuma Roof Tiles
Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Himedaruma Dolls
A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.
EhimeMuseumsShikokuchūō
Paper Town Museum
In the city with Japan's highest output of paper products, covering everything from hand sheets to machine rolls.
EhimeArt & CraftsUchiko
Kites of Ikazaki
Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.
Shikokuchūō
Iyo Mizuhiki
A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.
Uchiko
Coopers of Ehime
Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.
Ino
Tosa Washi
Its tengujo is the thinnest handmade paper in the world - 0.03 mm - and is used to conserve artworks globally.
KochiMuseumsIno
Ino Paper Museum
On the river that made the paper, following the process from bark to the thinnest sheet in the world.
Aki
Uchiharano Ware
Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Tosa Coral Carving
Red coral from these waters, carved over months by hands working a material that shatters if pushed.
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.
Kami
Kagura of Monobe
A mountain valley keeping a rite descended from Onmyodo, whose paper-cut implements have a form of their own.
Ino
Paper Products of Tosa
A paper province that also made the goods; thickness and fibre are varied for each intended use.
Shimanto
River Boats of the Shimanto
Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Dolls
Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.