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Kyushu Ceramic Museum
The largest systematic collection of Kyushu ceramics, tracing Arita porcelain unbroken from the 1600s to now.
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Arita Porcelain
Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.
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Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
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Kakiemon Kiln
Its milk-white body and sparing use of colour were copied across Europe and shaped Meissen's own style.
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Imaemon Kiln
Hereditary enamellers to the Nabeshima lords, keeping a technique where ink drawn on the glaze burns away and leaves white.
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Okawachiyama, the Nabeshima Domain Kiln
To stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
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Iro-Nabeshima Porcelain
Made as presentation and gift ware, never for sale, so nothing was compromised; red, yellow and green are layered over underglaze blue, and even the underside and foot ring follow a fixed standard.
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Karatsu Ware
Ranked third among tea wares after Raku and Hagi; its coarse clay and quick iron-drawn grasses were chosen for their plainness.
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Karatsu Kunchi Floats
Floats built from hundreds of layers of paper finished in lacquer and gold - light, strong, and still hauled after two centuries.
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Karatsu Float Exhibition Hall
All fourteen floats on permanent view, close enough to read the depth of the lacquer.
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Former Takatori Residence
A coal baron's house with a Noh stage built into it, and 72 painted cedar doors, no two rooms alike.
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Former Karatsu Bank
Kingo Tatsuno, born here, oversaw this for his home town, and his pupil drew it in the master's manner.
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Niji no Matsubara
A million pines planted as a windbreak four centuries ago, now a designated Place of Special Scenic Beauty.
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Chokokan Museum
A private museum built by the Nabeshima family, holding photographs the domain itself took in the 1860s.
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Mietsu Naval Dock Site
Where Japan's first working steamship was built; the timber dock survives underground and is deliberately left buried.
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Takeo Onsen Gate
Tatsuno built this vermilion gate at home; eight zodiac animals are carved in its ceiling - the missing four turned up in Tokyo Station.
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Shiotatsu District
A river port whose merchant houses raise their upper floors high and seal their walls thick against fire.
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Hizen Yoshida Ware
A district with no fixed house style, and lately one that works with outside designers rather than tradition.
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Saga Nishiki Brocade
Gold-leafed paper slit into warp threads and woven with silk - said to have been conceived by a lord's wife studying her ceiling.
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Ozaki Clay Dolls
Said to descend from Mongol prisoners of the 13th-century invasions; its dove whistles died out and were revived.
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Yumino Dolls
Large, strongly coloured clay dolls in the Hakata manner, kept going by a single workshop and its moulds.
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Tonbai Walls of Arita
Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.
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Arita Ceramic Fair
Four kilometres of stalls and half a million visitors - the whole district's output visible in one week.