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Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan
Kukai's mountain monastery, laid out so that the position of each hall and pagoda maps a mandala.
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Koyasan Reihokan Museum
The treasures of the whole mountain; Unkei's eight youthful attendants are unmatched as wrathful figures in boyish form.
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Kongo Sanmaiin
A pagoda said to have been raised by Hojo Masako, and the oldest building on the mountain.
WakayamaArchitectureNachikatsuura
Kumano Nachi Taisha and Seiganto-ji
A vermilion pagoda and a 133-metre waterfall in one frame - the fused Shinto-Buddhist landscape left intact.
WakayamaArchitectureKudoyama
Jisonin and the Choishi Michi
Stone markers set every 109 metres up the mountain road - 180 of them over twenty kilometres, the path itself made form.
WakayamaArt & CraftsKainan
Kishu Lacquerware
Red lacquer over black, so wear reveals the black beneath - a craft that treats use itself as the finishing process.
WakayamaArchitectureKainan
Kuroe District
Plots were divided on the diagonal, so the houses step along the street like saw teeth.
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Kishu Chests
Built in paulownia with almost no metal; the fit is so tight that pushing one drawer pushes another out.
Hashimoto
Kishu Fishing Rods
Bamboo from the Koyasan slopes joined through dozens of stages - treated less as tackle than as lacquerwork.
Aridagawa
Hoda Paper
A domain-sponsored paper that died out and was reconstructed by local people from surviving records.
WakayamaArt & CraftsMinabe
Kishu Binchotan Charcoal
Fired above a thousand degrees until it rings like metal when struck; every maker draws the kiln differently.
Tanabe
Ryujin Lacquerware
Lacquer from a hot-spring valley, made from timber and sap taken off the same mountains.
WakayamaMuseumsShirahama
Minakata Kumagusu Museum
A naturalist who studied slime moulds and fought to save sacred forests; his drawings and notebooks survive.
WakayamaMuseumsTanabe
Minakata Kumagusu Archives
His house and library kept as they were - including the way the books were piled.
WakayamaArchitectureYuasa
Yuasa Historic District
Where Japanese soy sauce is said to have begun; the brewers' houses and storehouses still line the lanes.
WakayamaArchitectureShingu
Kamikura Shrine
A giant boulder is the deity, with a small hall wedged beneath it, reached by 538 steep medieval steps.
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Sato Haruo Memorial Museum
The poet's Tokyo house was dismantled and rebuilt in his home town - a building returned to its birthplace.
WakayamaMuseumsTaiji
Taiji Whale Museum
Records of old-style whaling; the painted fleet formations read as working diagrams for collective labour.
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WakayamaContemporary ArtArida
Terraced Orange Groves of Arida
Four centuries of stone terracing turned these slopes into stairs, planted with citrus to the ridge.
WakayamaContemporary ArtMinabe
Plum Groves of Minabe
Plums, the woodland that feeds their bees, and the charcoal made from it - one system, recognised as agricultural heritage.
WakayamaArchitectureKoya
Temple Lodgings of Koyasan
Around fifty of the mountain's 117 temples take guests, so their halls and gardens can be experienced from inside.
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Nyonindo and the Women's Path
While women were barred, halls stood at the seven boundary gates, and women walked the path that joined them.
WakayamaArt & CraftsIwade
Negoro Lacquer Technique
Made by monks for their own use; stripped of ornament and built only for strength, the utility became the style.