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Blue Stone of Awa
A greenish schist that splits into flat slabs, shipped nationwide for gardens and stone monuments.
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Buddhist Images of Awa
Heian and Kamakura images survive along the pilgrim route - the pilgrimage itself acting as their protection.
Miyoshi
Festival Floats of Awa
Indigo money paid for the floats; the carving and embroidery record the merchants' wealth.
Naruto
Salt Making of Naruto
Salt fields once covered this shore; their divisions remain in the land, an industry that stood beside indigo.
Tokushima
Hachisuka Family Furnishings
The furnishings of a domain enriched by its indigo monopoly - the economy visible in the lacquer.
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The Yoshino River
Stretches were deliberately left unbanked to let floods pass - villages and fields laid out on the assumption of inundation.
Tokushima
Townhouses of Tokushima
A town laid out along its rivers, with landing stages behind the storehouses.
Mima
Umbrellas and Lanterns of Mima
Umbrellas and lanterns of bamboo and paper, some covered in indigo-dyed sheets.
Tokushima
Butsudan of Awa
Indigo-rich farming villages could afford altars, and so a whole trade grew to supply them.
Kamiyama
Satoyama of Kamiyama
Artist residencies opened the door to migrants and satellite offices - cultural policy that changed a village's demography.
TokushimaContemporary ArtMiyoshi
Oboke Gorge
The river cut down through crystalline schist; the layered rock faces repeat like a drawn pattern.
TokushimaArchitectureTokushima
Awa Kokubunji Garden
Blue schist set upright in ranks - an unusually forceful dry garden of the Momoyama period.
TokushimaArt & CraftsTokushima
Awa Jurobe Yashiki
The house behind a famous puppet play, now performing it daily so the handling can be watched at close range.
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The Shikoku Pilgrimage
Eighty-eight temples over 1,400 kilometres, with stone markers turning the distance itself into structure.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Chichu Art Museum
Buried entirely underground to spare the island's skyline, showing three artists only, and lit by daylight alone.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Benesse House Museum
A museum you can sleep in; artists chose their own sites here and made the works for those places.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Art House Project
Empty houses and a shrine in a working village turned into artworks, with residents themselves acting as guides.
KagawaArt & CraftsNaoshima
Lee Ufan Museum
For an artist who works only in stone and steel plate, half-buried in a valley between hill and sea.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Kusama's Pumpkins, Naoshima
A polka-dotted pumpkin at the end of a pier became the island's emblem; washed away by a typhoon, it was repaired and returned.
KagawaContemporary ArtNaoshima
Naoshima Bath I Love Yu
A working public bath plastered with the artist's collected signage and tile - an artwork the islanders wash in.
KagawaArt & CraftsTonosho
Teshima Yokoo House
An old house rebuilt with red glass in the garden so the whole site reads red, and a mirrored tower at its edge.
KagawaMuseumsTakamatsu
Kagawa Museum
History and art in one institution, built around calligraphy and Buddhist art in the province that produced Kukai.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Takamatsu Art Museum
Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.
KagawaArt & CraftsTakamatsu
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.