Hiroshima
Prints of Hiroshima
Printmaking was chosen to carry the memory of the bomb precisely because prints can be multiplied and sent out.
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Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art
In the province where Sesshu spent his last years, and also built around Kazuki Yasuo's Siberian internment paintings.
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Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Keeps its own R&D team and commissions works from scratch - a venue that develops art rather than only showing it.
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Xavier Memorial Church
Where Francis Xavier was first given leave to preach in Japan, rebuilt by an Italian architect on a triangular plan.
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Ouchi Lacquerware
Made by the Ouchi lords for trade with Ming China: gold lozenges and autumn grasses on vermilion.
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Tokuji Washi
Said to have been started to fund the rebuilding of Todaiji, and made here for over eight centuries.
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Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum
For a poet dead at thirty, on the site of his birthplace, showing his heavily revised drafts as calligraphy.
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YamaguchiMuseumsHagi
Hagi Museum
Built in the form of a samurai residence so as to sit inside the preserved townscape.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Shokasonjuku Academy
Yoshida Shoin taught here for barely a year; from eighteen tatami mats came the men who made the Meiji Restoration.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Hagi Reverberatory Furnace
A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Ebisugahana Shipyard
Where two Western-style sailing ships were built; the stone breakwater stands as it was.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
Oitayama Tatara Iron Works
The traditional furnace that supplied iron for the shipyard - old technology feeding a new industry.
YamaguchiArchitectureHagi
Kikuya Residence
Among the oldest surviving townhouses in Japan, with formal rooms built to receive shogunal envoys.
YamaguchiArchitectureIwakuni
Iwakuni Castle
A mountain castle and a valley residence linked by the bridge; the rebuilt keep overhangs its lower storey.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsShimonoseki
Shimonoseki City Art Museum
In the birthplace of Kano Hogai, who pushed Nihonga into the modern era; the museum traces how he got there.
YamaguchiArchitectureShimonoseki
Chofu District
The castle town of a Mori branch house, its lanes walled in tile-laced earth between temples and samurai houses.
Ube
UBE Biennale
Japan's first international open-air sculpture competition; sixty years of prize works have filled the park.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsUbe
Akama Inkstone
Cut from a fine-grained local stone that grinds ink smoothly, its edges carved with dragons and pines.
YamaguchiMuseumsHofu
Mori Museum
The Mori family mansion itself, holding Sesshu's sixteen-metre landscape scroll, shown each autumn.
YamaguchiArchitectureHofu
Suo Kokubunji
One of the few provincial temples where a hall still stands on the original 8th-century site.
YamaguchiArchitectureYanai
Yanai White-Walled District
A merchant town whose goldfish lanterns are said to have been invented after a trader saw the Nebuta floats up north.
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Yanai Stripe Cloth
Striped cotton that sold widely in the Edo period, lost, and reconstructed from surviving samples.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsShunan
Shunan City Museum of Art and History
Two pillars: a painter of Siberian internment, and the photographer who took the famous portrait of the novelist Dazai.