KagawaContemporary ArtMarugame
Sanuki Fuji and its Reservoirs
Fourteen thousand reservoirs were dug across this dry plain; the cones of its hills and those artificial ponds compose it.
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KagawaArchitectureManno
Manno Reservoir
Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
Tonosho
Terraces of Teshima
Abandoned terraces were brought back into cultivation alongside the museum's construction, so field and artwork share one view.
Takamatsu
Lion Dances of Sanuki
Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.
KagawaArchitectureNaoshima
Honmura Village, Naoshima
A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.
KagawaContemporary ArtShodoshima
Kankakei Gorge
Volcanic rock eroded into towers and cliffs, each formation named along the route.
Takamatsu
Stonemasons of Mure
A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.
KagawaArchitectureTakamatsu
Arcades of Takamatsu
Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Ehime Prefectural Museum of Art
Inside the castle moat, and holding the papers of Hisui Sugiura, who founded Japanese graphic design.
EhimeMuseumsMatsuyama
Museum of Saka no Ue no Kumo
Themed on one novel; Ando gave it a triangular plan and hung an unsupported ramp through its void.
EhimeMuseumsMatsuyama
Shiki Memorial Museum
For the poet who modernised haiku by preaching sketching from life; his own drawings and sickbed manuscripts survive.
EhimeArchitecture
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture
Japan's only museum devoted to a single living architect: a faceted steel pavilion beside his own relocated house.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Tokoro Museum Omishima
Galleries stepping down a slope, each sculpture set with the Inland Sea behind it.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Iwata Ken Mother and Child Museum
A circular wall with no roof: the sculptures stand in the open, taking rain and sun.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Kikuma Roof Tiles
Seven and a half centuries of tile-making, smoked at the end until silver; its demon tiles are the tiler's sculpture.
EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Sakurai Lacquerware
Sold from boats that carried bowls as far as Kyushu; built for durability rather than display.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Uchiko Historic District
Enriched by vegetable wax; its plaster is tinted pale yellow rather than white, for 600 unbroken metres.
EhimeArchitectureUchiko
Kamihaga Residence
A wax magnate's house with its workshops intact - the whole process of pressing wax from sumac berries, preserved as architecture.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Garyu Sanso
Ten years in the building; even the flaws in each timber were used as design, and the ceiling is woven to catch light off the river.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Ozu Castle
Rebuilt in real timber from Meiji photographs and a carpenter's model - the best-documented castle reconstruction in Japan.
EhimeArchitectureUwajima
Uwajima Castle
Its outer wall is an irregular pentagon, said to be built so besiegers would misread it as a square.
EhimeArchitectureSeiyo
Unomachi Historic District
A post town of continuous Edo and Meiji houses, with Western-style buildings mixed in among them.