ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Kites of the Hamamatsu Festival
A hundred and seventy neighbourhoods fly their own crested kites and cut each other's lines; the designs are civic emblems.
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ShizuokaArt & Crafts
ShizuokaArchitectureIzunokuni
Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces
The only reverberatory furnace anywhere that actually cast cannon and still stands; a World Heritage site.
ShizuokaArchitectureIzunokuni
Egawa Residence
The house of a hereditary magistrate, its great diagonal roof frame left open above the earthen floor.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShimada
Shitoro Ware
One of the kilns favoured by the tea master Kobori Enshu, firing dark iron-rich clay into austere tea caddies.
Shimada
Horai Bridge
The world's longest wooden footbridge, built to open tea fields and still re-planked and in use.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtMakinohara
Tea Fields of Makinohara
Tea fields opened by samurai who gave up their swords; rows follow the contours, and frost fans stand like a forest.
ShizuokaArchitecture
ShizuokaArchitectureNumazu
Numazu Imperial Villa Park
An imperial rest villa in timber, every room arranged to look through the pines to the bay.
ShizuokaContemporary ArtMishima
Springs of Mishima
Fuji's groundwater runs through the town centre, with stepping stones laid so people walk in the river itself.
ShizuokaArchitectureAtami
Atami Plum Garden and Villas
A spa town of Meiji villas scattered on the slopes, each composed around its view of the sea.
Shizuoka
Shimizu Port
A port built on the tea export trade, its timber and brick warehouses still shaping the waterfront.
ShizuokaArchitectureShimada
Oi River Crossing
A river the shogunate forbade to be bridged; the offices that organised the human porters have been rebuilt.
ShizuokaArchitectureHamamatsu
Hamamatsu Castle
Walls of barely worked natural stone remain from the castle where Ieyasu spent seventeen years.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsKakegawa
Kakegawa Kuzufu Cloth
Fibre fermented out of kudzu vine and woven into a silk-like cloth, once used for sliding doors and wall covering.
Fujieda
Kilns and Dyeing of Fujieda
Kiln sites scattered along a river whose clay fed them, and whose water fed the dye houses too.
Itō
Modern Villas of Izu
Villas and inns where writers and painters stayed, scattered down the peninsula - modern Japanese leisure in built form.
Atami
Slopes of Atami
A city stacked down a slope to the sea, its stairs and alleys serving as the street plan.
ShizuokaArchitectureOmaezaki
Omaezaki Lighthouse
One of Richard Brunton's lighthouses, a white cylinder on the point; an Important Cultural Property.
Shizuoka
Woodwork of Shizuoka
Craftsmen gathered to build the shrine and stayed; the woodworking line runs from altars to furniture to model kits.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsHamamatsu
Instrument Making of Hamamatsu
It began with one man repairing an organ, and became a world centre - a trade needing both woodwork and metalwork.
Shizuoka
Tea Houses of Shizuoka
As a tea-growing province it keeps many tea houses - small spaces designed as one with their gardens.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Hina Doll Accessories
Hina doll accessories of Shizuoka. Small furnishings to be set out on the hina tiers are made. Suruga has continued as a production area for hina accessories.
ShizuokaArt & CraftsShizuoka
Suruga Hina Dolls
Hina dolls of Shizuoka. The head and costume are made up and the doll is dressed.