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Kaimei School
A pseudo-Western school built by local carpenters, the oldest surviving in Shikoku, with its textbooks still there.
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Ehime Museum of History and Culture
A Showa shopping street rebuilt at full size, and a major holding on the Shikoku pilgrimage.
EhimeArt & Crafts
EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Iyo Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a farmer's daughter, and by the Meiji era the most produced kasuri in Japan.
Matsuyama
Himedaruma Dolls
A daruma modelled as a woman rather than a monk - rare in Japan, and still painted by hand.
EhimeArchitectureNiihama
Besshi Copper Mine and Tonaru
Terraced stone foundations of mine works and housing at 750 metres, left by 283 years of digging.
EhimeMuseumsShikokuchūō
Paper Town Museum
In the city with Japan's highest output of paper products, covering everything from hand sheets to machine rolls.
EhimeArt & CraftsUchiko
Kites of Ikazaki
Blades are tied to the lines to cut opponents' strings; the kite designs are family and district crests, drawn large.
EhimeArt & CraftsUwajima
Ushioni of Uwajima
A six-metre papier-mache beast with an ox's body and a demon's head, its neck stretched to poke into the eaves.
EhimeArt & CraftsKumakōgen
Kuma Museum of Art
A museum in a mountain town, built on modern oil paintings gathered by a local businessman.
EhimeArchitectureImabari
Kirosan Observatory
Kengo Kuma buried an existing hilltop observatory back into the ground to restore the mountain's profile - architecture erased.
EhimeContemporary ArtMatsuyama
Kashima Island
Seen from the shore it reads as a green mass floating on the sea - the archetype of an Inland Sea view.
Seiyo
Uwa Rice Museum
A relocated timber school whose 109-metre corridor was kept - and became the course for a floor-polishing race.
EhimeContemporary ArtSaijo
Mt Ishizuchi
The highest peak in western Japan, climbed on three sets of hanging chains provided as part of the pilgrimage.
EhimeContemporary ArtSaijo
Artesian Wells of Saijo
Three thousand wells rise of their own pressure through the town - water built into the streets themselves.
Shikokuchūō
Iyo Mizuhiki
A paper district that also twists the ceremonial cords, each knot carrying its own meaning.
EhimeContemporary ArtYawatahama
Terraced Fields of Yawatahama
Stone terraces cut into cliffs falling to the sea - said to be cultivated all the way to heaven.
Uwajima
Date Family of Uwajima
Ruled by a branch of the Sendai Date house; its armour and furnishings share motifs with the main family's.
EhimeArchitectureOzu
Ozu Historic Streets
A town laid out along a river's bend, its white-walled houses long used as a film location.
Uchiko
Coopers of Ehime
Coopering kept alive by the wax and sake trades, its skill concentrated in splitting the bamboo hoops.
Seiyo
Kagura of Nanyo
Dances in animal masks - deer above all - with each village's masks carved differently.
EhimeArchitectureImabari
Shipyards of Imabari
Japan's largest shipbuilding town, where hulls in dock and ranks of cranes are simply the everyday view.