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Suo Oshima and Tsuneichi Miyamoto
Home of the folklorist who walked all Japan; his hundred thousand photographs record a way of life now gone.
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YamaguchiArt & CraftsYamaguchi
Ouchi Dolls
A married pair in Ouchi lacquer, their faces barely drawn - the form and the vermilion do the work.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtIwakuni
White Snakes of Iwakuni
A population of white rat snakes bred here; the animal itself is both a natural monument and an object of worship.
YamaguchiArchitectureHofu
Mori Family Garden
A Taisho garden for a former daimyo house, its stones and water placed for the view from the reception rooms.
YamaguchiArchitectureShimonoseki
Modern Buildings of Shimonoseki
A port facing the continent, keeping a British consulate and a trading company's block with a Japanese garden on its roof.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
The Seven Changes of Hagi
Tea seeps into the crazing and the colour keeps changing - the maker does not decide when the bowl is finished.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtHagi
Citrus and Earthen Walls of Hagi
Citrus planted to give jobless samurai a livelihood now defines how the whole town looks.
YamaguchiArchitectureUbe
Coal Industry of Ube
An undersea coalfield that became a chemical industry; its plant structures now line the inland sea.
Hikari
Suo Monkey Theatre
A performing tradition that died out entirely and was reconstructed in the 1970s, costumes and all.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtNagato
Omijima Coast
Basalt cut by wind and wave into arches and stacks, most of it visible only from a boat.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsHagi
Korean Potters of Hagi
The families of the abducted Korean potters still run kilns here - a transfer of technique preserved as lineage.
YamaguchiArchitectureShimonoseki
Kanmon Strait Crossings
One strait crossed four ways - bridge, rail, road and a pedestrian tunnel walked beneath the seabed.
Hagi
Townhouse Reuse in Hagi
Empty townhouses turned into inns and studios - an ongoing test of how to preserve by using.
Hofu
Medieval Sculpture of Suo
Ouchi patronage left many medieval images here, showing how the capital's style shifted in provincial hands.
YamaguchiCraft ExperiencesYamaguchi
Yamaguchi Prefectural Hagi Uragami Museum Ceramics Gallery
The Ceramics Gallery of the Uragami Museum in Hagi. It collects and preserves Hagi ware.
YamaguchiArt & CraftsYamaguchi
Hagi Ware Museum
The Hagi Ware Museum. It exhibits the history and tools of the production area.
Yamaguchi
Hagi Ceramic Artists Association and the Cluster of Kilns
The kilns of Hagi. They carry on the lineage opened by potters who came from Korea, as the official kilns of the Mori clan.
Yamaguchi
Sakakura Shinbei Kiln
Sakakura Shinbei Kiln in Fukawa, Nagato. It makes Hagi ware for the tea ceremony.
Yamaguchi
Fukawa Hagi
Fukawa Hagi of Nagato. A lineage that branched off from the official kilns of Hagi.
Yamaguchi
Akamagaseki Inkstone Honke Gyokukodo
Gyokukodo in Shimonoseki. It carves Akama inkstones.
Yamaguchi
Bamboo Craft of the Hagi Okan in Yamaguchi
The bamboo craft of Yamaguchi. An everyday craft handed down along the Hagi Okan road.