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Miyazaki Prefectural Museum
With four relocated farmhouses in its grounds, and a substantial holding on the province's kagura masks and robes.
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Haniwa Garden, Heiwadai Park
Four hundred copies of excavated haniwa set out among trees - placed outdoors, closer to how they originally stood.
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Takachiho Night Kagura
Thirty-three dances performed through the night in ordinary houses, in masks repaired and reused for generations.
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Takanabe Daishi
One man began carving in his sixties and spent thirty years cutting 700 stone figures over a burial ground - untrained, and overwhelming in number.
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Kagura Masks of Hyuga
Each hamlet has its own carver, so the same character wears a different face; broken masks are recut and the line renews.
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Miyazaki Jingu and the Peace Tower
Nearby stands a 37-metre tower built in 1940 from stones gathered across Japan and overseas - a monument with a contested history.
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Stonework of Hyuga
Soft tuff quarried for lanterns and walls; its workability is why stone culture is dense in this province.
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Haniwa of Saitobaru
A house-shaped haniwa with smaller structures attached - a three-dimensional record of ancient building.
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Buddhist Images of Miyazaki
The anti-Buddhist campaigns hit hard here, yet Heian images survive in the mountain temples.
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Moai of Nichinan
The only officially sanctioned Moai replicas in the world, made with the permission of Easter Island's elders.