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Hakata Gion Yamakasa
Two kinds of float: one thirteen metres tall to be looked at, one built to be run with - and their design logic differs entirely.
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Kushida Shrine
Where the float festival begins; one decorated float stands here all year, so the doll-makers' work is always visible.
Yame
Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
FukuokaArt & CraftsYame
Yame Lanterns
A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Koishiwara Ware
Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Takatori Ware
Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuchi
Agano Ware
A tea kiln opened by Korean potters under the Hosokawa lords, light in the hand and marked by running glaze.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Bentwood Ware
Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.
Fukutsu
Tsuyazaki Dolls
Unglazed clay dolls, best known for a bird-shaped whistle; one workshop still keeps the moulds.
Fukuoka
Hakata Spinning Tops
Tops made for street performance, weighted so precisely they will spin on the tip of a sword.
FukuokaArt & CraftsŌkawa
Okawa Furniture
Timber came here by river and shipwrights' joinery turned into cabinetmaking - now Japan's largest furniture district.
Itoshima
Studios of Itoshima
Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, formed by people who moved here for the coast.
SagaArt & CraftsSaga
Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum
An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.
SagaMuseumsArita
Kyushu Ceramic Museum
The largest systematic collection of Kyushu ceramics, tracing Arita porcelain unbroken from the 1600s to now.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Arita Porcelain
Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.
Arita
Izumiyama Quarry
Four centuries of digging removed an entire mountain; the white cliff left behind records what the industry did to the land.
SagaArchitectureArita
Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Tozan Shrine
Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Kakiemon Kiln
Its milk-white body and sparing use of colour were copied across Europe and shaped Meissen's own style.
SagaArt & CraftsArita
Imaemon Kiln
Hereditary enamellers to the Nabeshima lords, keeping a technique where ink drawn on the glaze burns away and leaves white.
SagaArt & CraftsImari
Okawachiyama, the Nabeshima Domain Kiln
To stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
SagaArt & CraftsImari
Iro-Nabeshima Porcelain
Made as presentation and gift ware, never for sale, so nothing was compromised; red, yellow and green are layered over underglaze blue, and even the underside and foot ring follow a fixed standard.
SagaArt & CraftsKaratsu
Karatsu Ware
Ranked third among tea wares after Raku and Hagi; its coarse clay and quick iron-drawn grasses were chosen for their plainness.
Ureshino
Hizen Yoshida Ware
A district with no fixed house style, and lately one that works with outside designers rather than tradition.