Kumamoto
Contemporary Architecture of Kumamoto
Public housing from the Artpolis programme, scattered across the province and judged by how people go on living in it.
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Amakusa
Churches of Amakusa
Churches scattered through island villages, each paid for by its own congregation once the ban was lifted.
KumamotoArchitectureUki
Stone Bridges of the Taneyama Masons
The masons who built Tsujunkyo left dozens of arches across the province, each betraying their school in how it is laid.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Kikuchi Fortress
A mountain fort raised after a defeat abroad, against an invasion that never came; its octagonal tower is rebuilt.
Aso
Kagura of Higo
Fire is swung in circles at Aso's rites; each village's masks are carved differently and repaired down the years.
Ashikita
Shiranui of the Yatsushiro Sea
On one night of the lunar calendar a mirage lines the sea with fires - recorded since antiquity, and the source of a place name.
Kumamoto
Bamboo and Wood of Kumamoto
A bamboo province making baskets and farm tools, their forms arrived at purely through use.
Amakusa
Porcelain Stone Quarries of Amakusa
White quarry faces cut into the hills; the porcelain of Arita is made of stone carried away from here.
Yamaga
The Buzen Highway
The road between Kumamoto and Kokura; its post towns keep enough houses to read the highway's scale.
KumamotoArt & CraftsTamana
Stone Figures of Tamana
Stone figures set around burial mounds, carved from Aso welded tuff and found almost only in northern Kyushu.
Uto
Great Camphors of Uto
Thousand-year camphors in shrine precincts; Kyushu keeps an unusual number of these giants.
Kumamoto
Castle Town of Kumamoto
Kato Kiyomasa rerouted a river to plan castle and town as one; the layout of water and roads still shows it.
KumamotoContemporary ArtAso
Aso Caldera Rim
From the rim the whole 25-kilometre caldera falls into one view - scale itself becoming the landscape.
OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.
OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita City Art Museum
Built around the literati painter Tanomura Chikuden, and the tradition of painting as a scholar's sideline.
OitaArchitectureUsuki
Niozaza District, Usuki
A lane cut through a tuff hill, with temples and samurai houses on both banks - a town carved out of the ground.
OitaArt & CraftsBeppu
Beppu Bamboo Craft
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
Beppu
Beppu Contemporary Art Festival
An art festival through the alleys and empty shops of a spa town, mixing work into the everyday of a tourist place.
OitaArchitectureBeppu
Takegawara Onsen
A public bathhouse under a temple-like gable, still offering the sand bath in which bathers are buried to the neck.
OitaContemporary ArtBeppu
Steam Landscape of Beppu
Steam rises from all over the town - more springs and more water than anywhere in Japan, a city built on its own heat.
OitaArt & CraftsYufu
COMICO ART MUSEUM YUFUIN
If space is available, admission is possible without a reservation; Kuma set black charred-cedar boxes to borrow the mountain behind them.
OitaArchitectureYufu
Yufuin Townscape
Residents chose to keep the fields and refuse development, regulating building heights and signs among themselves.
OitaArchitectureKunisaki
Rokugo Manzan of Kunisaki
Temples across a peninsula where gods and Buddhas were never separated, linked by mountain paths walked as training.
OitaArt & CraftsKunisaki
Kunisaki Pagodas
A stone pagoda form found only on this peninsula, its base carved with lotus petals unlike any elsewhere.
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