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Watanabe Art Museum
Thirty thousand objects gathered by one physician, with a holding of armour rare for a private collection.
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Inshu Washi
Most of Japan's calligraphy paper; the fibre blend is changed for each use to control how ink spreads.
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Ushinoto Ware
Glazed in two colours split on the diagonal; Yanagi found it and made it a standard-bearer of the mingei movement.
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Nakai Kiln
Descended from Ushinoto, and shaped by the doctor's design instruction into forms that suit a modern table.
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Kurayoshi Kasuri
Landscapes and birds woven from tie-dyed thread; the technique died out and was reconstructed by a preservation society.
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Yonago City Museum of Art
A small municipal museum, steady in showing local artists and printmaking.
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Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography
For the photographer who staged figures on the dunes; a window frames Mt Daisen as if through his own lens.
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Mizuki Shigeru Memorial Museum
Original pages showing how he drew backgrounds in obsessive detail and figures in almost none.
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Yumihama Kasuri
Kasuri woven from cotton grown on the sand spit, its lucky motifs boldly simplified into pattern.
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Mukibanda Site
One of Japan's largest Yayoi settlements, found just before a golf course was built and saved by local campaigning.
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Aoya Kamijichi Site
Groundwater preserved wooden and lacquered objects in quantity - a rare chance to see Yayoi lacquer work directly.
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Kamiyodo Temple Site
Fragments of wall painting contemporary with Horyuji's - proof the provinces held work of capital quality.
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Ishitani Residence
A timber baron's forty-room house, its earthen hall crossed by tier upon tier of local cedar beams.
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Itaibara Village
A mountain hamlet no road ever reached, its board roofs and stone terraces unchanged since the 1950s.
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Inkyuzan Ware
A former domain kiln still firing in a climbing kiln, using the same local clay and ash glaze.
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Wakasa Railway Stations
The original 1930 wooden stations, turntable and water tower survive along the line, listed together.
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Gosho Aoyama Manga Factory
In the birthplace of Detective Conan's creator; the town is scattered with his characters, and even renamed its station.
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Kurayoshi Figure Museum
In a circular former theatre, presenting figure sculpting as a branch of sculpture proper.
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Hakuto Coast
The shore of the Kojiki's white hare tale, its line of rocks standing in for the crocodiles' backs.
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Uradome Coast
Granite cut by the sea into arches and stacks, in water clear enough to show the rock beneath.
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Misasa Onsen
Water rises in the riverbed and is bathed in where it stands, below three-storey wooden inns.
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Umbrellas of the Shan-Shan Festival
Paper umbrellas hung with bells and foil, four thousand of them turned at once - a tool become a mass instrument of form.