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Old Nokubi Church
A brick church alone on a now-uninhabited island, paid for out of the fishing income of the families who settled there.
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Shimabara Castle
The cost of building it helped cause the rebellion; the keep is now a museum of the persecution that followed.
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Samurai Quarter of Shimabara
A water channel runs down the centre of the street - a quarter laid out for the musket corps.
NagasakiArt & CraftsHasami
Hasami Ware
Porcelain made cheap enough for ordinary households - the ware that put porcelain on the Japanese table.
Hasami
Nakaoyama Kiln Site
The remains of a 160-metre climbing kiln of 33 chambers - among the largest ever built anywhere.
NagasakiArt & CraftsSasebo
Mikawachi Ware
The Hirado domain kiln, known for Chinese children painted in blue and for pierced openwork carved into the body.
NagasakiMuseumsHirado
Matsura Historical Museum
In the lords' own residence, holding what the overseas trade brought in alongside their hawking and tea equipment.
NagasakiArchitectureHirado
Hirado Dutch Trading Post
The Dutch East India Company's post, older than Dejima; its stone warehouse - Japan's first Western masonry - has been rebuilt.
NagasakiArchitectureSasebo
Hario Radio Towers
Three concrete towers 136 metres tall standing in a triangle - a scale hard to credit for 1922, and still self-supporting.
NagasakiMuseumsIki
Harunotsuji Site
Identified with a kingdom named in Chinese records; the oldest boat landing in Japan was found here.
NagasakiArchitectureTsushima
Watazumi Shrine
Two of its five gates stand in the sea; at high tide the approach vanishes and the shrine appears to float.
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Nagasaki Tortoiseshell Work
Shell joined by heat and pressure alone, with no adhesive; the skill lies in reading which piece is clear enough.
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Nagasaki Embroidery
Padded with cotton so dragons and lions stand out in relief, used on the hangings of the great autumn festival.
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Siebold Memorial Museum
For the doctor who first catalogued Japan's plants and animals for the outside world, on the site of his own house.
NagasakiArchitectureIsahaya
Isahaya Spectacles Bridge
Slated for removal after a flood, it was instead moved to a park - an early case of relocating a stone bridge to save it.
NagasakiContemporary ArtSasebo
Kujukushima Islands
Two hundred and eight islands scattered across an inland sea - the densest island group in Japan, reading as layered planes.
Unzen
Unzen Hells
Sulphur vents breaking from the ground, and the place where Christians were executed.
NagasakiArchitectureHirado
Hirado Streets
From one slope a church spire appears over temple roofs - two faiths caught in a single frame.
NagasakiArchitectureShinkamigoto
Tetsukawa Yosuke's Churches
A carpenter who taught himself Western building and invented a way to raise rib vaults in timber.
Tsushima
Stone Roofs of Tsushima
Sheds roofed with split stone, because the wind here tears thatch away.
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Chinese Temples of Nagasaki
Four temples built by resident Chinese - examples that brought in Chinese styles through Chinese and Japanese craftsmen.
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Hillside City of Nagasaki
Houses stacked in a bowl of hills, some slopes too steep for cars - so inclined lifts were installed to carry goods.
NagasakiContemporary ArtShimabara
Springs of Shimabara
Groundwater from the volcano surfaces in the streets and carp swim the channels - disaster and benefit from the same mountain.
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Nagasaki Prints
Souvenir prints of foreign ships and visitors - and the earliest Japanese pictures to use Western shading.