NagasakiArchitectureSasebo
Former Naval Facilities of Sasebo
A city built as a naval port, its brick warehouses and yards still ranged along the water.
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NagasakiArchitectureHirado
Dutch Wall of Hirado
Fragments of the wall that enclosed the Dutch post, laid in a way no Japanese mason would have used.
NagasakiArchitectureUnzen
Obama and Unzen Spa Buildings
A spa opened as a hill station for foreigners, with Western hotels and a church built up in the mountains.
NagasakiArchitectureGoto
Hidden Christian Villages of Goto
Villages founded by Christians in hiding; the altar concealed in a back room still shows in how the houses are planned.
Nagasaki
Stone Paving and Masons of Nagasaki
The skill that built the stone bridges also paved the slopes - a hillside city assembled in stone.
NagasakiMuseumsTsushima
Korean Embassies at Tsushima
The domain that received the Korean embassies, keeping painted processions and a scholar's argument for equal diplomacy.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
A Maekawa building inside the castle grounds, with decorated tomb chambers rebuilt full size to be entered like the originals.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
On the third floor of a shopping building and run together with a bookshop, with permanent rooms commissioned from artists.
KumamotoMuseumsYamaga
Museum of Decorated Tumuli
Half of Japan's painted tomb chambers are in Kyushu and most of those in Kumamoto - abstract circles and triangles drawn in the 400s.
KumamotoMuseumsYamaga
Chibusan Tomb
Geometric patterns and figures painted on the chamber wall; two circles read as breasts gave the tomb its name.
KumamotoArt & CraftsKumamoto
Shimada Museum of Arts
Miyamoto Musashi died in this city; the museum holds his own writing and the wooden swords said to be his.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Kumamoto Artpolis
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Former Hosokawa Gyobu Residence
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
Kumamoto
Higo Inlay
Fine grooves cut into iron and filled with hammered gold and silver - a sword-fitting craft now turned to jewellery.
Kumamoto
Obake no Kinta
Pull the string and its eyes roll and its tongue shoots out - a papier-mache doll said to model a retainer of Kato Kiyomasa, with its prototype said to date from the Kaei era.
KumamotoMuseumsYatsushiro
Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
An early Toyo Ito public building: the store buried underground and grassed over so it reads as a hill.
KumamotoArchitecture
KumamotoArt & Crafts
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Hitoyoshi Castle Ruins
Its walls end in a projecting lip - a rare feature in Japan, thought to come from Western fortification.
KumamotoArchitectureAmakusa
Sakitsu Village
A church at the end of a fishing village lane, its floor laid with tatami so the congregation kneels to pray.
KumamotoArt & CraftsAmakusa
Amakusa Ceramics and Porcelain Stone
Eighty percent of Japan's porcelain stone comes from this island - Arita and Hasami both depend on it.
KumamotoContemporary ArtAso
Grasslands of Aso
A thousand years of deliberate burning keeps this caldera in grass - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
KumamotoArt & CraftsYamaga
Yamaga Lanterns
Shrines and castles built from paper and paste alone - hollow, frameless, and light enough to dance with on the head.
Yamaga
Kutami Persimmon-Tannin Fans
Paper toughened with persimmon tannin - insect-proof, water-resistant, and darkening with use.