KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
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KagoshimaArt & Crafts
KagoshimaContemporary ArtAmami
Subtropical Forest of Amami
Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsTokunoshima
Bullfighting of Tokunoshima
Each hamlet keeps its own bull; the harness and rope designs work as the village's emblem.
Shibushi
Shibushi District
A port that also held a samurai settlement, its stone walls and hedges in the Satsuma manner.
KagoshimaMuseumsKanoya
Burial Mounds of Osumi
Southern Kyushu has its own burial type - a shaft dug down and a chamber cut sideways, found nowhere else.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Sendai Fumoto
River cobbles walling off each plot - the technique of stacking round stone shared across this district.
KagoshimaArchitectureMakurazaki
Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki
Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtYoron
Yoron Island
Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Shochu Distilleries of Kagoshima
Fermenting jars are sunk into the floor, so the surrounding earth holds the temperature steady.
Kagoshima
Shimazu Patronage of Craft
The lords set pottery, glass and metal workshops in their own castle town and directed them personally.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum
Walled in limestone like a Ryukyuan castle, holding both the kingdom's record and the systematic collection of postwar Okinawan art.
OkinawaArt & CraftsGinowan
Sakima Art Museum
A private museum on land reclaimed from a US base; its roof stair splits into six steps and twenty-three, for the 23rd of June.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Tsuboya Pottery Street
The quarter where the kingdom gathered all its kilns; it escaped the war, and workshops still line the paved street.
OkinawaMuseumsNaha
Tsuboya Pottery Museum
A kiln found during construction was left in place and built around, shown underground beneath the galleries.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Ryukyu Bingata
Stencilled paste resist with pigment rubbed in - a meeting of Chinese, Southeast Asian and Japanese dyeing, in colours built for southern light.
Naha
Shuri Textiles
Woven for the royal house; one of its weaves could be worn only by the queen and princesses.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Ryukyu Lacquerware
Its tsuikin technique - lacquer kneaded with pigment and applied like clay - exists nowhere else; the court ran the workshops.
OkinawaArt & Crafts
OkinawaArchitectureNaha
Kinjocho Stone Path
Part of a royal highway; 238 metres survived the war, walled in stone between great trees.
OkinawaArchitectureKitanakagusuku
Nakamura Family Residence
One of the few gentry houses to survive the war intact, its walls and windbreak trees complete against the typhoons.
Yomitan
Yomitanzan Ware and the Pottery Village
Potters left Naha for this village over smoke restrictions; a Living National Treasure built the first kiln, and nineteen studios are now gathered here, with shared climbing kilns and more.
Yomitan
Yomitanzan Hanaui
Geometric flowers raised by floating threads; the craft died out and was reconstructed in 1964 from old cloth and older memories.
OkinawaArt & CraftsŌgimi
Kijoka Banana Fibre Cloth
The village grows the plants, strips the fibre, splits it, spins and weaves - two hundred stems for a single bolt of cloth.
OkinawaArt & CraftsItoman
Ryukyu Glass
It began with melting down bottles the US military threw away; the bubbles the impurities caused were kept as the point.