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Akama Shrine
Dedicated to the child emperor drowned at Dannoura, its vermilion gate modelled on an undersea palace.
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Chofu District
The castle town of a Mori branch house, its lanes walled in tile-laced earth between temples and samurai houses.
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Mori Museum
The Mori family mansion itself, holding Sesshu's sixteen-metre landscape scroll, shown each autumn.
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Hofu Tenmangu
Said to be the first shrine to Michizane; one hall began as a pagoda and was converted mid-construction.
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Suo Kokubunji
One of the few provincial temples where a hall still stands on the original 8th-century site.
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Yanai White-Walled District
A merchant town whose goldfish lanterns are said to have been invented after a trader saw the Nebuta floats up north.
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Motonosumi Shrine
A hundred and twenty-three vermilion gates curve down a cliff toward the sea, following the ground's own line.
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Tsunoshima Bridge
Its piers were kept low and its line bent for the view - civil engineering made the subject of the landscape.
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Samurai Houses of Hagi
Senior retainers' houses, where the height of the gate and wall states the family's rank.
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Climbing Kilns of Hagi
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillside; the slope and the number of chambers decide how the ware comes out.
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Mori Family Garden
A Taisho garden for a former daimyo house, its stones and water placed for the view from the reception rooms.
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Modern Buildings of Shimonoseki
A port facing the continent, keeping a British consulate and a trading company's block with a Japanese garden on its roof.
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Citrus and Earthen Walls of Hagi
Citrus planted to give jobless samurai a livelihood now defines how the whole town looks.
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Coal Industry of Ube
An undersea coalfield that became a chemical industry; its plant structures now line the inland sea.
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Kanmon Strait Crossings
One strait crossed four ways - bridge, rail, road and a pedestrian tunnel walked beneath the seabed.
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Townhouse Reuse in Hagi
Empty townhouses turned into inns and studios - an ongoing test of how to preserve by using.
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Otsuka Museum of Art
A thousand Western masterpieces reproduced full size on ceramic panels said to last two millennia - including works long destroyed.
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Ai no Yakata Indigo Museum
In an indigo merchant's mansion, with the fermenting beds and the whole composting process shown at full size.
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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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Inukai Rural Stage
A thatched village stage with a revolve, and painted sliding screens rearranged to change the scenery.
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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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Udatsu Street, Wakimachi
An indigo trading town where the firewalls between houses grew ever taller as displays of wealth.