Miyakonojo
Miyakonojo Shimazu Residence
A branch of the Shimazu house, its 1930s mixing of Western and Japanese rooms largely intact.
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Nobeoka
Buddhist Images of Miyazaki
The anti-Buddhist campaigns hit hard here, yet Heian images survive in the mountain temples.
Miyazaki
Coastal Pine Belt of Hitotsuba
Pines planted against blown sand form a straight belt along the coast - a drawn line holding the land.
MiyazakiArt & CraftsNichinan
Moai of Nichinan
The only officially sanctioned Moai replicas in the world, made with the permission of Easter Island's elders.
MiyazakiArchitectureAya
Aya Castle
The first castle in Japan rebuilt in real timber rather than concrete, and the precedent for those that followed.
Takachiho
Kagura Costume and Paper Cuts
Cut paper hung on four sides of the dancing floor, its patterns diagramming a whole cosmology.
Nobeoka
Ayu Weirs of the Gokase River
Bamboo weirs built across the river each autumn to catch sweetfish, then dismantled - a seasonal structure.
MiyazakiArchitectureMiyazaki
Miyazaki Prefectural Office
Built in 1932 and still the working prefectural office - the fourth-oldest such building in Japan.
Hyuga
Citrus Terraces of Hyuga
Citrus terraced on stone; hyuganatsu was discovered by chance in Akae, Miyazaki City, and is a variety native to Miyazaki, now tied to the landscape that grows it.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsYūsui
Kirishima Open-Air Museum
At 700 metres, where artists chose their own sites; when the fog comes in, the sculptures appear and vanish.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Kagoshima City Museum of Art
This province sent an unusual number of painters into Japanese modern art; the museum collects them systematically.
KagoshimaMuseumsKagoshima
Reimeikan Museum
On the castle site; because this province destroyed its Buddhist art more thoroughly than any other, it also records what was lost.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Nagashima Museum
On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.
KagoshimaArchitecture
KagoshimaMuseumsKagoshima
Shoko Shuseikan
Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Satsuma Ware
Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Miyama Pottery Village
The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Satsuma Cut Glass
Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.
KagoshimaArchitectureMinamikyushu
Chiran Samurai District
Seven of its samurai gardens are designated scenic, their clipped hedges borrowing the mountain behind.
KagoshimaMuseumsMinamikyushu
Chiran Peace Museum
On the airfield they flew from, holding the letters teenage pilots left - the handwriting itself part of the record.
KagoshimaArchitectureIzumi
Izumi Fumoto Samurai District
A fumoto - the Satsuma domain's own form of samurai settlement - of 150 houses on a grid, the largest in the province.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Iriki Fumoto
Walls built from rounded river cobbles - a distinctive technique, since nothing in them has a flat face.
KagoshimaMuseumsKirishima
Uenohara Jomon Forest
A settled village 9,500 years old, which rewrote assumptions about when people in Japan stopped moving.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtKagoshima
Sakurajima
Lava from the 1914 eruption filled the strait and turned an island into a peninsula - a landform change fully documented.
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