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Gujo Hachiman
Spring water is channelled past every door for washing and firefighting, with strict rules on the order of use.
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Gujo Indigo Dyeing
Dyed in live indigo vats without chemicals, then rinsed in the winter river - a sight the town turns out for.
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Food Samples of Gujo
Much of Japan's plastic food comes from makers born here - a craft of making a dish look better than the dish.
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Moriya Tadashi Art Museum
Large historical scenes by a Nihonga painter who researched every detail before he drew it.
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Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro
A park with no level ground anywhere; Arakawa built it under the slogan of architecture against dying, to unsettle the body's certainties.
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Iwamura Historic District
Below one of Japan's three great mountain castles, a merchant street running 1.3 kilometres.
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Gero Gassho Village
Gassho houses moved from a valley about to be dammed; visitors can climb into the lofts built for silkworms.
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Usuzumi Cherry of Neodani
One of Japan's three great cherries, named for the ink-grey the petals turn as they fall.
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Japan Taisho Village
A whole town preserving its Taisho-era offices and clinics, keeping one layer of provincial modernity intact.
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Ceramic Park MINO
Isozaki threaded long galleries down a valley slope, making a central apparatus for the pottery district.
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Furuta Oribe
A warrior tea master from Mino who broke symmetry on purpose - the man who introduced deliberate irregularity to Japanese form.
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Mino Washi Museum
Following Hon-Minoshi from the growing of the bark to the finished sheet, in one continuous display.
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Suimon River, Ogaki
Where Basho ended The Narrow Road; a town of springs, its river landing steps and stone lantern still in place.
GifuContemporary ArtSekigahara
Sekigahara Battlefield
Armies were placed around a ring of hills; the relation of terrain to formation can still be walked.
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Gifu-Kakamigahara Air and Space Museum
Where Japan's first airfield stood; aircraft are shown with their frames exposed, form following function.
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Hida Butsudan
Woodworker, carver, lacquerer and metalsmith each take a stage, the town's carpentry tradition carried into furniture.
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Paper Crafts of Mino
A paper district that also developed the folding and knotting of paper - wrapping and tying as form.
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Gujo Odori
A dance held on thirty nights of the year, its rhythm made by clogs striking the stone street - the pavement as instrument.
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Kamioka Mine
A town built around a mine, its company housing stepped up the slope beside the tunnel mouths.
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Tarumi Railway
A single track following one valley, so track, river and cherry trees line up and the journey becomes the viewing.
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Gifu Great Buddha
A great Buddha of bamboo, sutra-covered paper and lacquer - built not of bronze or wood but of paper.
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Mino Washi
The washi of Mino. It has a history of 1,300 years and is known for the technique of forming thin, even sheets.
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Gifu Shibu Uchiwa Fans
The shibu uchiwa fans of Gifu. Persimmon tannin is applied to washi to make it strong.