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Kirin Lion Dance
A lion head with a single horn, found only in this corner of Japan and recognised as national heritage.
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TottoriContemporary ArtYurihama
Lake Togo and its Villages
A lake whose bed produces hot water, with a torii standing in the shallows.
TottoriContemporary Art
TottoriContemporary ArtKurayoshi
Pear Trellises of Tottori
Pears trained flat overhead, so each orchard becomes a green ceiling with shade beneath.
TottoriArchitectureTottori
Tottori Castle Ruins
A spherical stone bulge was added to hold a failing wall - the only such structure in Japan, engineering turned into form.
TottoriArchitectureTottori
Shikano Castle Town
A castle town of grid streets and running water channels, its lattice fronts still in place.
TottoriContemporary ArtHino
Iron Sand Workings of Hino
Hills washed away to extract iron sand left stepped terrain - proof that ironmaking reshaped the land itself.
Tottori
Inshu Papermaking Workshops
Winter paper is made in freezing water; the speed and angle of the shaking mould decide how even the sheet will be.
TottoriArchitectureKurayoshi
Red-Tiled Streets
Glazed Sekishu tiles resist snow and salt, and their red is what gives this coast's towns their colour.
Tottori
Heian Buddhas of Tottori
Single-block Heian images survive in mountain temples here, a record of how the provinces carved.
TottoriArchitectureMisasa
Pilgrim Path of Mt Mitoku
The path to the cliff hall is climbed by chain and tree root - the visit itself designed as an ordeal.
Hino
Thatched Houses of Nichinan
Thatched houses in the Chugoku mountains, their eaves pulled deep against snow and cold.
TottoriArt & CraftsKotoura
Mt Senjo and its Rock Carvings
Columnar rock standing like a folding screen, with Buddhas cut into the face.
Nanbu
Countryside of Nanbu
Farmland below Mt Daisen, where the placement of windbreak woods and terraces follows terrain and weather.
Tottori
Stonemasons of Tottori
Lanterns and guardian lions supplied to shrines across the region, each quarry's masons cutting differently.
Sakaiminato
Yokai as Local Form
One cartoonist's drawings remade an entire town's appearance - form tied directly to a local economy.
Tottori
Dune Farming and Windbreaks
Belts of black pine planted to stop the sand moving - human lines now defining the dunes' own edges.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Shimane Art Museum
Collecting on the theme of water, and staying open until thirty minutes after sunset over the lake it faces.
ShimaneMuseumsIzumo
Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo
Three hundred and fifty-eight bronze swords from one pit, ranged along a wall - more than had been found in all Japan before.
ShimaneArt & CraftsYasugi
Adachi Museum of Art
Ranked Japan's finest garden for over twenty consecutive years by a US journal; its windows are framed to present the garden as a painting.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Tanabe Art Museum
Tea utensils of a family enriched by ironmaking, in the town shaped by the tea-master lord Fumai.
ShimaneMuseumsMatsue
Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum
For Lafcadio Hearn, who wrote Japan's ghost stories in English; the samurai house he lived in stands next door.
ShimaneArchitectureMatsue
Shiomi Nawate
Samurai houses and earthen walls along the castle moat, the street Hearn walked barely altered.
ShimaneArchitectureMatsue
Meimean Tea House
Built by the tea-master lord whose taste is why this town still has its tea and its sweets.