EhimeArt & CraftsMatsuyama
Haiku in the Streets of Matsuyama
Over ninety boxes stand in the streets for posting haiku - literature installed as municipal infrastructure.
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EhimeArt & CraftsImabari
Citrus Groves of Omishima
Citrus terraces cover the island's slopes; Toyo Ito has worked here on tying farming back to architecture.
EhimeContemporary ArtOzu
Cormorant Fishing on the Hiji
On winter mornings a river fog pours down to the sea; the river changes character with the season.
Uwajima
Pilgrimage Temples of Nanyo
The southern temples lie deep in the hills, where the paved pilgrim road and its distance markers survive longest.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
The Museum of Art, Kochi
Among Japan's major Chagall holdings, in a building faced with local plaster and tile, and fitted with a Noh stage.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Ishimoto Yasuhiro Photo Center
The photographer whose images of Katsura changed how Japanese architecture is seen; all 34,000 of his works came here.
KochiMuseumsKochi
Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum
On a headland with galleries cantilevered over the Pacific, holding letters whose handwriting breaks into something like drawing.
KochiMuseumsNankoku
Kochi Museum of History
On the Chosokabe clan's castle site, covering medieval Tosa and the province's folk material.
Konan
Ekin Festival, Akaoka
For two nights a year the screens are set out along the shopfronts and lit only by candles - as they were meant to be seen.
Ino
Tosa Washi
Its tengujo is the thinnest handmade paper in the world - 0.03 mm - and is used to conserve artworks globally.
KochiMuseumsIno
Ino Paper Museum
On the river that made the paper, following the process from bark to the thinnest sheet in the world.
Kami
Tosa Blades
Forged without templates, each blade shaped to its order - a trade built on hatchets and sickles for mountain work.
KochiMuseumsKami
Yanase Takashi Memorial Museum
For the creator of Anpanman, who found his great subject in his mid-fifties, and who was also a poet.
KochiContemporary ArtShimanto
The Shimanto River
No dam on the main course, so the meanders remain; bridges and villages are all placed on the assumption of flood.
Yusuhara
Kengo Kuma Buildings in Yusuhara
Six Kuma buildings in a mountain village of three thousand, each designed outward from locally sourced cedar and thatch.
Yusuhara
Yusuhara Community Library
Local cedar split thin and hung from the ceiling like falling timber; shoes come off, and readers lie on the floor.
KochiContemporary ArtKitagawa
Monet's Garden Marmottan
Giverny recreated in a mountain valley with the foundation's blessing - and here the blue water lilies Monet never got actually bloom.
KochiArchitectureAki
Nora Dokei
A landowner taught himself clockmaking by taking one apart, then built this tower - gears and all - by hand.
Aki
Tosa Plaster and Drip Tiles
Rows of little tile eaves are set partway up the walls to shed typhoon rain - a climate detail that became the elevation.
Aki
Uchiharano Ware
Begun as a domain industry, and still turning out the same everyday jars and bowls.
KochiContemporary ArtMuroto
Cape Muroto
Each earthquake lifts the coast a little more, leaving terraces - a global geopark where the ground's movement is legible.
KochiArchitectureMuroto
Hotsumisakiji
Where Kukai trained in a cave, and from whose opening - sky and sea only - he is said to have taken his name.
KochiContemporary ArtTosashimizu
Tatsukushi Coast
Sandstone eaten by wind and wave into honeycombs and marbled surfaces - a shoreline carved by weather.