OitaArt & CraftsOita
Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.
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OitaArt & CraftsBeppu
Beppu Bamboo Craft
Begun as souvenirs for spa visitors and now producing Living National Treasures, built from eight basic weaves.
OitaArt & CraftsOitaContemporary ArtHita
Water Hammers of Onta
Water-driven hammers crushing clay along the valley; their sound is listed among Japan's hundred soundscapes worth keeping.
OitaArt & CraftsTaketa
Himedaruma of Taketa
A papier-mache daruma in female form, drawn from a samurai wife's story and still made by one family.
OitaArt & CraftsHita
Hita Cedar and Woodwork
Cedar planted under direct shogunal management; at one point this town made more wooden clogs than anywhere in Japan.
Beppu
Bamboo Artists of Oita
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
Usuki
Takeyoi Festival, Usuki
Twenty thousand bamboo lanterns cut and lit along the streets, so the town's plan appears as lines of light.
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Miyakonojo Bows
Bamboo and sumac laminated with hide glue through over two hundred steps; most Japanese bamboo bows are made here.
Miyazaki
Sadowara Clay Dolls
Clay dolls counted among the sources of the Kyushu tradition, still made from Edo-period moulds.
MiyazakiMuseumsAya
Aya Craft Centre
A town that paired forest protection with taking in craftspeople; woodworkers and weavers have gathered here.
Takachiho
Kagura Costume and Paper Cuts
Cut paper hung on four sides of the dancing floor, its patterns diagramming a whole cosmology.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Nagashima Museum
On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Satsuma Ware
Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Miyama Pottery Village
The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Satsuma Cut Glass
Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsYakushima
Yakusugi Woodcraft
Only stumps left by Edo-period logging may be used; no living tree is cut, and the timber is three centuries old before it starts.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsKagoshima
Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
White Satsuma
Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
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.
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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.