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KochiArt & CraftsKochi
Tosa Fighting Dogs and Festival Form
Fighting dogs are dressed in embroidered aprons modelled on sumo champions' - a rare case of ceremonial textile on an animal.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Art Museum
A late Maekawa building, holding everything from Buddhist sculpture to contemporary art, low along a park lake.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
The only museum in the world systematically collecting modern and contemporary Asian art, and inviting its artists to work here.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Holds the work of Takashima Yajuro, a recluse who painted the same single candle again and again.
FukuokaMuseumsDazaifu
Kyushu National Museum
Japan's fourth national museum, framed to show Japanese culture as it formed through exchange with the rest of Asia.
FukuokaMuseumsFukuoka
Fukuoka City Museum
Holds the gold seal a farmer dug up in 1784 - 2.3 centimetres of metal that anchors the start of recorded Japanese history.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Textiles
Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuoka
Hakata Dolls
Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKitakyushu
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
Two square tubes projecting horizontally from a hilltop - nicknamed the binoculars, and a key early Isozaki.
FukuokaArchitectureKitakyushu
Imperial Steel Works, Yahata
Where Japanese heavy industry began; its red-brick head office survives inside a still-working steelworks.
FukuokaMuseumsKitakyushu
Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum
The novelist's Tokyo house rebuilt full size, library and all, down to how the papers were piled.
FukuokaMuseumsKitakyushu
Kitakyushu Manga Museum
Built around local artists including the creator of Galaxy Express 999, with 60,000 volumes free to read.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKurume
Kurume City Art Museum
At the heart of a cultural centre the Bridgestone founder gave his home town, built around two painters born here.
FukuokaArt & CraftsKurume
Kurume Kasuri
Said to have been invented by a twelve-year-old girl who noticed the pattern in a faded cloth; now an Important Intangible Cultural Property.
FukuokaArchitectureŌmuta
Miike Coal Mine, Miyanohara Pit
The steel headframe of a pit that fuelled Japan's industrialisation - including its reliance on convict labour.
FukuokaArchitectureYanagawa
Canals of Yanagawa
Four hundred and seventy kilometres of canal serving daily life, farming and defence at once - saved from being filled in by residents.
FukuokaArchitectureYanagawa
Tachibana Family Garden, Ohana
A daimyo villa whose pond stands for the sea, ringed by 280 pines, with Western and Japanese wings joined.
Yame
Yame Fukushima District
A town of altar and lantern makers, where the workshops face the street and the houses are behind them.
Yame
Yame Fukushima Butsudan
Built inside like a miniature temple, and finished by seven separate trades in sequence.
FukuokaArt & CraftsYame
Yame Lanterns
A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Koishiwara Ware
Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.
FukuokaArt & CraftsTōhō
Takatori Ware
Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.
FukuokaArt & CraftsFukuchi
Agano Ware
A tea kiln opened by Korean potters under the Hosokawa lords, light in the hand and marked by running glaze.