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Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
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The Destroyed Buddhas of Satsuma
In 1868 every temple in the province was abolished and every monk laicised - the most thorough destruction in Japan; what survives was hidden.
KagoshimaArchitectureKagoshima
Shiroyama and the Castle Walls
Satsuma defended itself with scattered samurai villages rather than a keep; its walls still carry bullet scars from 1877.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Banana Fibre Cloth of Amami
Fibre stripped from banana stems, split fine and spun by hand; a single bolt takes two hundred plants.
Amami
Takakura Granaries of Amami
Granaries raised on four posts with rat guards - one structure answering typhoon, damp and vermin at once.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsAmami
Oshima Tsumugi Village
The kasuri threads are first woven into a temporary cloth, dyed, then unpicked for the real weaving - two weavings for one fabric.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtKirishima
Volcanic Landscape of Kirishima
Over twenty volcanoes in a chain, dotted with crater lakes, and still being reshaped by each eruption.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtIbusuki
Sand Baths of Ibusuki
Bathers are buried in sand heated from below - the ground itself used as the equipment.
Izumi
The Fumoto Village Form
Instead of one castle, samurai were settled in over a hundred fortified villages across the province.
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Metalwork of Satsuma
Domain metalwork that found an export market in the Meiji era, prized abroad for the fineness of its inlay.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
White Satsuma
Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsHioki
Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtAmami
Subtropical Forest of Amami
Subtropical broadleaf forest through the island's centre - the plants and birds Tanaka Isson spent his last years painting.
KagoshimaArt & CraftsTokunoshima
Bullfighting of Tokunoshima
Each hamlet keeps its own bull; the harness and rope designs work as the village's emblem.
Shibushi
Shibushi District
A port that also held a samurai settlement, its stone walls and hedges in the Satsuma manner.
KagoshimaMuseumsKanoya
Burial Mounds of Osumi
Southern Kyushu has its own burial type - a shaft dug down and a chamber cut sideways, found nowhere else.
KagoshimaArchitectureSatsumasendai
Sendai Fumoto
River cobbles walling off each plot - the technique of stacking round stone shared across this district.
KagoshimaArchitectureMakurazaki
Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki
Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.
KagoshimaContemporary ArtYoron
Yoron Island
Administratively Kagoshima but linguistically and architecturally closer to Okinawa - an island where the border is not the boundary.
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Shochu Distilleries of Kagoshima
Fermenting jars are sunk into the floor, so the surrounding earth holds the temperature steady.
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Shimazu Patronage of Craft
The lords set pottery, glass and metal workshops in their own castle town and directed them personally.
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Amami Oshima Tsumugi Village
Oshima Tsumugi Village in Amami. Visitors can try mud dyeing and weaving.
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Honba Amami Oshima Tsumugi Mud-Dyeing Park
The mud-dyeing park in Amami. It exhibits mud-dyeing techniques.
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Oshima Tsumugi Art Museum
The Oshima Tsumugi Art Museum in Amami. It collects and preserves textiles.