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A working public bath plastered with the artist's collected signage and tile - an artwork the islanders wash in.
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A working public bath plastered with the artist's collected signage and tile - an artwork the islanders wash in.
An old house rebuilt with red glass in the garden so the whole site reads red, and a mirrored tower at its edge.
History and art in one institution, built around calligraphy and Buddhist art in the province that produced Kukai.
Postwar art and Sanuki lacquer as twin pillars - this province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures.
Noguchi's studio and stone yard kept exactly as he left them - finished and unfinished works standing side by side.
Its moat is filled with seawater and swum by sea bream - one of three castles in Japan built directly on the sea.
Thirty-three houses moved from across Shikoku, with an unusual concentration of working buildings - soy sheds, sugar mills.
Inside the great garden, showing the province's everyday objects free of charge.
Granite so fine-grained it is called the diamond of stone; Noguchi settled here to work it.
Three techniques that all cut into built-up lacquer; the province has produced an unusual number of Living National Treasures in them.
Plant-dyed thread stitched over a ball into geometric patterns; the craft died out and was reconstructed.
Nine in ten Japanese fans; handle and ribs are split from a single length of bamboo.
A daimyo garden whose pond copies the eight views of Lake Biwa, centred on a 600-year-old pine trained flat.
Tide pools left on the flats mirror the sky; a beach that photography discovered and turned into a destination.
A port enriched by soy sauce and sugar, its white storehouses and merchant homes now open to visitors.
Sugar pressed in cloth again and again to draw off molasses, then formed in carved wooden moulds.
Thatched stages built by island villages themselves, with the sloping shrine ground serving as the seating.
Eight hundred paddies stacked up a slope, with a kabuki stage among them - farming and theatre in one view.
Over twenty breweries still using wooden vats, their walls blackened by the fermenting culture itself.
Two festival islands where the works scatter through hillside hamlets and the lanes become the route.
For the inventor Hiraga Gennai, whose kiln pressed maps and Western pictures onto the surface of pottery.
Threads floated at intervals to raise the surface, so the cloth barely touches the skin in summer.