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The only post town where both official inns survive as Important Cultural Properties, with the lords' rooms intact.
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Katsuyama and its Noren
One dyer suggested each house hang its own curtain; a preservation district gained a layer of colour.
Maniwa
Katsuyama Bamboo Craft
Farm baskets with no ornament at all - the form held entirely by the strength of the weave.
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Lucky Cat Museum
In an old farmhouse, comparing beckoning cats in clay, papier-mache and porcelain from every district.
Okayama
Ujobori Carving
Named for the castle's nickname: flowers and birds carved in relief on trays and boxes, finished in lacquer.
Kurashiki
Bitchu Washi
Recorded in 8th-century documents; a handful of workshops still make it.
Kurashiki
Tamashima District
A cotton and salt port, with the temple where the monk Ryokan trained on the hill above it.
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Kofun of the Kibi Road
The fourth-largest keyhole tomb in Japan, and climbable because it is not an imperial grave - evidence Kibi rivalled the capital.
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Hiruzen Highlands
Grassland kept open by burning it every year - a landscape that exists only because people maintain it.
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Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum
A fan-shaped locomotive shed and turntable kept working - industrial geometry left legible.
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Saidaiji Eyo Festival
Nine thousand naked men contend for a wooden token - a mass of bodies that reads as moving sculpture.
Setouchi
Bizen Swords
The largest of Japan's five sword traditions; roughly half of all National Treasure blades were forged here.
OkayamaArchitectureKurashiki
Kurashiki Ivy Square
An 1889 spinning mill converted rather than demolished - an early case of industrial reuse in Japan.
OkayamaArt & CraftsKurashiki
Kojima Torajiro
The painter who bought the Ohara collection was a painter first; his own canvases show what his eye was trained on.
Takahashi
Takahashi Samurai District
Samurai houses below the mountain castle, where the relation of fortress to town can be read in the terrain.
Mimasaka
Terraces of Mimasaka
Stone-walled terraces along the mountain valleys, drawing the contours into visible lines.
Okayama
Bizen Ware Traditional Industry Hall
The traditional industry hall in Bizen. It displays unglazed, high-fired stoneware vessels.
Okayama
Okayama Prefectural Bizen Ceramics Museum
The ceramics museum in Bizen. It collects and preserves Bizen ware.
Okayama
Imbe Kiln Cluster
The kilns of Imbe, Bizen. Climbing kilns are clustered in a town lined with chimneys.
Okayama
Mushiake Ware
Mushiake ware of Setouchi. Tea ceremony ware with a pale glaze is fired here.
Okayama
Sakazu Ware
Sakazu ware of Kurashiki. It follows in the line of the mingei folk craft movement.
Okayama
Kurashiki Hariko
The hariko of Kurashiki. Folk toys made by pasting layers of paper over a mold.
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Kurashiki Glass
The glass of Kurashiki. Blown glass begun by Kodani Shinzo, it was praised by the mingei folk craft movement.