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Matsue
Yakumo Lacquerware
Pictures painted in coloured lacquer and covered with clear coats; as the years pass the top clears and the picture brightens.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMatsue
Fujina Ware
Its slip technique resembles English country pottery; Bernard Leach came here, and the exchange went both ways.
ShimaneMuseumsIzumo
Kojindani Site
Three hundred and fifty-eight swords buried in four neat rows on one slope; nobody knows why.
ShimaneMuseumsUnnan
Kamo Iwakura Site
Thirty-nine bronze bells buried nested one inside another - the largest such find in Japan.
ShimaneArchitectureOda
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine
Said to have produced a third of the world's silver in the 1500s, and inscribed as World Heritage for mining without stripping the forest.
Oda
Omori District
Officials and merchants lived on the same street here - a townscape where the class boundary blurs.
ShimaneArchitectureGotsu
Sekishu Ware
Great water jars fired so hard they resist salt and acid, sold to kitchens and pickling sheds all over Japan.
ShimaneArt & CraftsMasuda
Iwami Art Museum, Grand Toit
Hiroshi Naito clad walls and roof alike in 280,000 local red tiles, wrapped around a courtyard pool.
ShimaneArchitectureMasuda
Gardens of Sesshu
Two gardens attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, said to apply the composition of his paintings to ground and stone.
ShimaneArt & CraftsTsuwano
Anno Art Museum
For a picture-book artist known worldwide for books without words, in a tile-roofed building by Hiroshi Naito.
ShimaneMuseumsTsuwano
Mori Ogai Memorial Museum
For the army surgeon and novelist; the house he lived in until he was ten stands beside it.
ShimaneArt & CraftsHamada
Hamada Children's Museum of Art
Collects and exhibits children's own drawings, and does not separate the making from the looking.
ShimaneMuseumsYasugi
Wako Museum
On tatara ironmaking, which produced the steel for Japanese swords using only iron sand and charcoal.
ShimaneMuseumsOkuizumo
Okuizumo Tatara and Sword Museum
The only place still smelting tamahagane for swords, in a furnace fired continuously for three days and nights.
Unnan
Sugaya Tatara Works
The only surviving furnace house of its kind, at the centre of a whole village built around making iron.
ShimaneArt & CraftsIzumo
Shussai Kiln
Started by five young men, guided by the mingei leaders, and still making unsigned everyday ware by policy.
ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Former Taisha Station
Built to receive shrine pilgrims, so the station was designed as a temple rather than in Western style.
ShimaneArchitectureIzumo
Hinomisaki Shrine and Lighthouse
A vermilion shrine and a 43-metre stone lighthouse - Japan's tallest - on the same headland.
ShimaneArchitecture
ShimaneArchitectureOkinoshima
Rengee Mai of Oki
An ancient court dance lost on the mainland but preserved on the island, its masks and robes medieval.
ShimaneArt & CraftsOkinoshima
Bull Sumo of Oki
Said to have begun to console an exiled emperor, and still ended in a deliberate draw.