KochiContemporary ArtTosashimizu
Cape Ashizuri
Granite cliffs at Shikoku's southern tip, reached through a tunnel of camellia branches.
Japan library12,708 entries
13,910 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
12,708ShowingAll JapanArea12Themes
12,708 entries / page 165 of 530
KochiContemporary Art
KochiMuseumsTosashimizu
John Manjiro Museum
A castaway who reached America and returned as an interpreter; copies of the phrasebook he made survive.
Kochi
Kochi Sunday Market
A street market held for over three centuries; once a week a city avenue changes character entirely.
KochiContemporary ArtKochi
Katsurahama Beach
A beach of many-coloured pebbles, long famous for moon viewing, with Ryoma's statue facing the sea.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Chikurinji
The 31st pilgrimage temple, with a garden attributed to Muso Soseki and a pagoda above the bamboo.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Hirome Market
Separate stalls share one seating floor - a building that leaves the division of space to its users.
KochiContemporary ArtNiyodogawa
The Niyodo River
Pools that read as intense blue in the right light - a landscape that photography made known.
KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Tosa Coral Carving
Red coral from these waters, carved over months by hands working a material that shatters if pushed.
Ino
Tosa Papermaking Workshops
To make paper 0.03 mm thick the screen itself must be woven that fine - the precision starts with the tools.
Shimanto
Thatched Villages of the Shimanto
Villages set high above the flood line, roof pitch and orientation dictated by wind and rain.
Kochi
Butsudan of Tosa
Rich forests made this a woodworking province; its altars pass through carving, lacquer and gilding in turn.
Kochi
Coastal Erosion of Tosa Bay
The Kuroshio current reworks this shoreline continually; the beach's shape changes within decades.
KochiArchitectureAki
Doi Kachu, Aki
A samurai quarter hedged in bamboo rather than walled in stone - a Tosa solution.
Kami
Kagura of Monobe
A mountain valley keeping a rite descended from Onmyodo, whose paper-cut implements have a form of their own.
Yusuhara
Tea Halls of Yusuhara
Roadside huts built to serve tea to travellers; thirteen survive, still tended in rotation by residents.
Ino
Paper Products of Tosa
A paper province that also made the goods; thickness and fibre are varied for each intended use.
KochiArchitectureKochi
Kochi Castle Town
Filled-in moats became roads, so the castle town's skeleton survives as the modern street plan.
KochiArchitectureSakawa
Sakawa Brewery Town
A brewing town of white-walled storehouses, and the birthplace of the botanist Makino.
Kochi
Stone Guardians of Tosa
Local masons' habits show in these guardian lions, most set low to survive typhoons.
Tsuno
Terraces of the Upper Shimanto
Stone terraces in the river's headwaters, the work of centuries turning slope into step.
KochiArchitectureNakatosa
Fishing Villages of Nakatosa
A pole-and-line bonito port, its beach sheds and slipways laid out to suit the method.
Shimanto
Farmland of the Konan Plateau
Rice fields on a plateau 200 metres up and close to the sea - an unusual combination of farming conditions.
KochiContemporary ArtSukumo
Sunsets of Sukumo
In winter the sun doubles on the horizon into an hourglass shape - an effect produced purely by air temperature.
Shimanto
River Boats of the Shimanto
Flat-bottomed boats for shallow water, their shape decided by the river rather than by pattern.