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Rivers of Hita
A town in a basin ringed by rivers, grown on boat traffic and still viewed from the water.
Beppu
Bamboo Artists of Oita
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
Usa
Votive Plaques of Usa
As head shrine it drew offerings from all Japan; the pictures on its votive plaques show what each era prayed for.
Kunisaki
Villages of Kunisaki
A dry peninsula riddled with reservoirs, its stone-walled homesteads set between them.
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Funai and its Christian Past
The town of a Christian daimyo, with a church and hospital - among the first Japanese cities to take in European culture.
Beppu
Communal Bathhouses of Oita
Over a hundred bathhouses in Beppu are run by neighbourhood associations - plain buildings whose form follows who manages them.
Usuki
Takeyoi Festival, Usuki
Twenty thousand bamboo lanterns cut and lit along the streets, so the town's plan appears as lines of light.
Bungotakada
Sculptors of Bungo
A peninsula far from the capital that kept many Heian and Kamakura images - enough to compare provincial hands.
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Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum
Home of Ei-Q, who made images by laying objects straight onto photographic paper; this is the fullest collection of his work.
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Miyazaki Prefectural Museum
With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.
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Haniwa Garden, Heiwadai Park
Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.
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Saitobaru Burial Mounds
Three hundred and nineteen mounds across a plateau, kept as grassland so their shapes stay readable as terrain.
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Saitobaru Archaeological Museum
Buried underground so as not to disturb the mounds, and unusual in letting visitors handle some of the finds.
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Takachiho Night Kagura
Thirty-three dances performed through the night in ordinary houses, in masks repaired and reused for generations.
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Amano Iwato Shrine
Worship is directed not at a hall but at a cave across the river; nearby, stones piled by visitors have accumulated into a landscape.
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Obi Castle Town
A castle town of cedar fences and stone walls, the first in Kyushu designated a preservation district.
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Aoshima and the Devil's Washboard
Alternating sandstone and mudstone eroded into regular ridges that ring the island at low tide.
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Mimitsu District
A port trading with Osaka, and so lined with Kyoto-style townhouses rarely seen elsewhere in Kyushu.
Miyakonojo
Miyakonojo Bows
Bamboo and sumac laminated with hide glue through over two hundred steps; most Japanese bamboo bows are made here.
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Takanabe Daishi
One man began carving in his sixties and spent thirty years cutting 700 stone figures over a burial ground - untrained, and overwhelming in number.
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Sadowara Clay Dolls
Clay dolls counted among the sources of the Kyushu tradition, still made from Edo-period moulds.
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