Takamatsu
Sanuki Lanterns
Made as offerings for the great shrine, using a technique that winds a single bamboo strip in a spiral.
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Shodoshima
Olive Groves of Shodoshima
Where olives first took root in Japan; terraces cut into the slopes give the island a Mediterranean look.
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Kotohiki Park
A viewpoint built on the hill so the sand coin below can be read - the vantage point completing the work.
Tonosho
Teshima and its Waste
An island known for illegal industrial dumping became a festival site - and how openly that history is handled remains at issue.
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Honjima of the Shiwaku Islands
An island of famous ship and temple carpenters; the houses they built for themselves still stand.
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Sanuki Fuji and its Reservoirs
Fourteen thousand reservoirs were dug across this dry plain; the cones of its hills and those artificial ponds compose it.
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Manno Reservoir
Kukai is said to have repaired this reservoir in three months, curving the dam into an arch to take the water's push.
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Tange Buildings in Takamatsu
Tange translated the timber tradition into reinforced concrete here; the stacked slabs read as wooden eaves.
Tonosho
Terraces of Teshima
Abandoned terraces were brought back into cultivation alongside the museum's construction, so field and artwork share one view.
Takamatsu
Lion Dances of Sanuki
Over eight hundred lion troupes in one prefecture, each with its own embroidered body cloth.
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Honmura Village, Naoshima
A village of charred-cedar walls, uniformly black; the art houses are set inside that fabric.
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Kankakei Gorge
Volcanic rock eroded into towers and cliffs, each formation named along the route.
Takamatsu
Stonemasons of Mure
A stone-cutting town; Noguchi worked with its masons, and sculptors have come for the stone ever since.
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Arcades of Takamatsu
Two and a half kilometres of covered street, its crossings domed in glass - a roof designed for a city.
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Kagawa Lacquerware
Lacquerware of Takamatsu. It has the carving techniques of kinma, zonsei and choshitsu. Tamakaji Zokoku founded it by copying Chinese techniques.
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Kagawa Urushi Lacquerware Institute
The prefecture's lacquer art institute. It passes on kinma and other techniques to the next generation.
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The Kagawa Museum Lacquer Art Exhibit
The lacquer art exhibit of the prefectural museum. It holds Kagawa lacquerware in its collection.
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Kinma Lacquerware
Lines are carved with a blade into a surface built up with layers of lacquer and filled with colored lacquer. A representative technique of Kagawa lacquerware.
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Zonsei Lacquerware
A technique in which patterns are drawn on a lacquer ground with colored lacquer, then finished with line carving and gold powder.
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Choshitsu Carved Lacquerware
A technique in which dozens of layers of lacquer are built up and carved into to show the colors of the cross-section.
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Goto-nuri Lacquerware
A special lacquering technique in which lacquer is applied and then wiped off to bring out a mottled pattern.
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Zokoku-nuri Lacquerware
A lacquering style that bears the name of Tamakaji Zokoku. It is finished so as to keep the texture of the wood base.
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Uchiwa no Minato Museum
The Uchiwa no Minato Museum in Marugame. It exhibits the uchiwa production area.