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Stone Bridge Memorial Park
Stone arches nearly lost to flood, dismantled and rebuilt here - the work of Kumamoto masons hired into Satsuma.
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Sogi Power Station Ruins
A brick power station drowned by a dam; when the water drops it surfaces whole - a ruin visible only a few months a year.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Tanaka Isson Memorial Museum
A painter who moved here at fifty, worked as a dyer to fund his painting, sold almost nothing, and was recognised only after death.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Silk
Thread dyed with a local shrub and then trodden into iron-rich mud to blacken; the kasuri threads are themselves woven first on a separate loom.
Amami
Mud Dyeing of Amami
Plant dye and mud alternated more than twenty times to reach a black no chemical dye can match.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtYakushima
Yakushima Forest
Vegetation stacked from subtropical to subarctic by altitude alone; even the logged stumps have grown second trees.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsYakushima
Yakusugi Woodcraft
Only stumps left by Edo-period logging may be used; no living tree is cut, and the timber is three centuries old before it starts.
Minamikyushu
Kawanabe Butsudan
Satsuma banned Buddhism outright for a time; altars were made in secret, and when the ban lifted that skill became an industry.
KagoshimaMuseumsNishinoomote
Tanegashima Gun Museum
The matchlock that arrived in 1543 beside the copies local smiths made - and the record of how the screw thread defeated them.
Nishinoomote
Tanegashima Scissors
Gunsmithing turned to scissors; steel is forge-welded to soft iron to shape the blades and handles.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Koshikijima Villages
Cobble walls line the island lanes; houses sit low inside them against the typhoons.
Minamisatsuma
Kaseda Fumoto
Cobble walls and hedges in a samurai settlement - a village form produced by Satsuma's system of scattered garrisons.
KagoshimaArchitectureAira
Kamo Fumoto and the Great Camphor
Japan's largest camphor tree, 24 metres around, stands in the shrine at the centre of the samurai settlement.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Terayama Charcoal Kiln and Sekiyoshi Sluice
The kiln that made the furnace's fuel and the channel that brought its water - the supporting infrastructure, included in the listing.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
KagoshimaMuseumsKagoshima
The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma
In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Shiroyama and the Castle Walls
Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami
Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.
Amami
Takakura Granaries of Amami
Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Village
The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtKirishima
Volcanic Landscape of Kirishima
Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtIbusuki
Sand Baths of Ibusuki
Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.
Izumi
The Fumoto Village Form
Instead of one castle, samurai were settled in over a hundred fortified villages across the province.
Kagoshima
Metalwork of Satsuma
Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.
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