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Awa Odori Kaikan
On a dance four centuries old, where each troupe's matched coats and hats work as its emblem.
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Tokushima Castle Museum
A Momoyama garden built from the province's blue-green schist, composed from the colour and shape of the stone alone.
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Awa Puppet Theatre
Indigo wealth planted puppet theatre in the villages; dozens of their open-air stages still survive and still perform.
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Awa Puppet Heads
Carved larger than Bunraku's so they read from a distance outdoors; the master Tengukyu's heads are still in use.
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Inukai Rural Stage
A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.
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Otani Ware
Great jars thrown on a wheel kicked by a man lying on his back while another shapes the clay - a method born of indigo vats.
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Naruto German House
A First World War POW camp where the prisoners ran presses and workshops - and gave Japan its first performance of Beethoven's Ninth.
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Two-Tier Udatsu of Sadamitsu
Firewalls stacked in two tiers - a form found in this town alone, sometimes coloured in the plaster.
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Ochiai Village
Houses and fields stacked up a slope so steep that top and bottom differ by 390 metres in altitude.
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Awagami Factory
Kept the hand technique and developed washi for inkjet printing - an old craft finding a current use.
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Kamiyama Artist in Residence
A mountain village of 5,000 that has hosted artists for over twenty years; their works remain scattered through it.
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Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center
Built from windows and doors salvaged across the town, and laid out in plan as a question mark.
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Awa Earth Pillars
Rain washed away the soft ground and left the hard cores standing as pillars - counted among the world's three great earth-pillar sites.
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Awa Wasanbon Sugar
Sugar kneaded by hand and pressed into carved wooden moulds - the moulds themselves carved down the generations.
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Tokushima Prefectural Museum
The province's general museum, organised around its blue-green stone and the society indigo built.
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Bunka no Mori Park
Museum, gallery, library and archive gathered on one hill, connected by walking rather than corridors.
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Ryozenji, Temple One
The start of a 1,400-kilometre pilgrimage, where the white robe, sedge hat and staff are first assembled.
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Naruto Whirlpools
Whirlpools twenty metres across, appearing twice a day; a walkway slung under the bridge shows them through a glass floor.
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Indigo Merchants of Mima
The storehouses of the indigo traders, built to hold the temperature and damp the fermentation needs.
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Chiiori and the Thatched Houses of Iya
A thatched house bought and restored by Alex Kerr, and the model case for reviving abandoned mountain homes.
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Indigo Vats
Vats sunk into the floor and kept fermenting with lye; the fire under them is never allowed to go out in winter.
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Mt Bizan and Tokushima
A mountain at the city's back and rivers threading through it - the town's shape legible from above.
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Anan Coast
A lighthouse on the easternmost point of Shikoku - reef and tower, and nothing else in the frame.