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The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.
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The palace of the unmarried imperial princess sent to serve at Ise; excavation confirmed its grid plan.
Stone paving laid so the rain could not wash the path away - a structure built for walking that became the landscape.
As the provincial capital, Tsu keeps Meiji public buildings in which local carpenters read Western style their own way.
A street rebuilt in the gable-fronted form typical of Ise, showing how a pilgrimage town was shaped.
Drowned valleys forming a maze of inlets, across which pearl rafts lay out their regular artificial lines.
Halls set along a mountain stream, with a rite in which horses charge straight up an earth bank.
Four kilometres of continuous waterfalls, used as a training ground by mountain ascetics.
Cypress grown in one of Japan's wettest places; dense planting and thinning rule the slopes into pattern.
Streets deliberately bent at right angles for defence, the layout still as Todo Takatora planned it.
Candle making began in the Showa period and developed as a local industry; the Japanese candle is wound from paper and rush pith.
The gear of free-diving women, their cloth still stitched with star and grid marks to ward off harm.
Whole villages ringed by their own levees, each homestead keeping a stone-raised refuge building against flood.
A petrochemical complex that at night becomes an assembly of light - a landscape that also carries a pollution history.
Paper lacquered and embossed to pass as leather, made for pilgrims, lost, and recently reconstructed.
On the road between the capital and Ise, so small temples here keep an unusual number of Heian images.
Stone piled into the narrow inlets to make level ground, and houses set along it - a village shaped by terrain.
Levees built by the Satsuma domain under shogunal order still divide three rivers and govern the terrain.
Thatched farmhouses around the basin rim, the pitch and orientation of each roof set by wind and snow.
Ise katagami stencils from Shiroko, Suzuka. Washi paper bonded with persimmon tannin is carved and used for stencil-dyeing kimono. There are four carving techniques.
The hajikizaru of Tado, Kuwana. A folk toy with a monkey figure threaded onto bamboo.