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SagaArt & CraftsTo stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
SagaArchitectureA coal baron's house with a Noh stage built into it, and 72 painted cedar doors, no two rooms alike.
SagaArchitectureKingo Tatsuno, born here, oversaw this for his home town, and his pupil drew it in the master's manner.
SagaArchitectureBuilt in a single year as the base for invading Korea, ringed by 130 lords' camps - and abandoned seven years later.
SagaMuseumsJapan's largest Yayoi settlement, its moats, palisades and watchtowers reconstructed across forty hectares.
SagaArchitectureJapan's first full timber reconstruction of a castle palace, including a 320-mat hall rebuilt with few columns.
SagaMuseumsA private museum built by the Nabeshima family, holding photographs the domain itself took in the 1860s.
SagaArchitectureWhere Japan's first working steamship was built; the timber dock survives underground and is deliberately left buried.
SagaArchitectureA lord's garden three years in the making, now overlaid each summer night by teamLab's light works.
SagaArchitectureTatsuno built this vermilion gate at home; eight zodiac animals are carved in its ceiling - the missing four turned up in Tokyo Station.
SagaArchitectureTwo streets preserved side by side: one of white-walled breweries, one of thatched townhouses.
SagaArchitectureHalls lifted on vermilion posts against a steep slope, built to be looked up at from below.
SagaArchitectureA river port whose merchant houses raise their upper floors high and seal their walls thick against fire.
SagaArchitectureOne of Japan's few surviving Confucian temples, copying the Chinese form in timber, and still holding its rites.
Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.
SagaArchitectureArita porcelain shipped from this port, which is why the world came to call it Imari instead.
SagaArchitectureA net of channels dug across reclaimed land to hold water; from the air the whole plain reads as a drawing.
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillsides; the slope and the number of chambers decided the firing.
Christianity arrived early in this province; crosses and inscribed graves survive hidden among ordinary temples.
The Nagasaki highway ran through here, carrying sugar and Western learning toward Edo.
Stone-arch technique spread inland from Nagasaki; the way each arch is laid identifies its mason's line.
SagaArchitectureA replica of the Zwinger, built by the Saxon elector who bought Arita porcelain by the shipload - the export destination made visible.
NagasakiArt & CraftsTwo blocks straddling a canal, joined by a bridge, holding Japan's foremost collection of Spanish art.
NagasakiMuseumsThe shogunal magistrate's office rebuilt in timber, housing the record of Japan's one open window on the world.