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OitaArt & Crafts
OitaArt & CraftsBungotakada
Kumano Cliff Buddhas
Among Japan's largest cliff carvings; up a wild flight of stone steps, a fierce deity that appears to be smiling.
OitaArt & CraftsUsuki
Usuki Stone Buddhas
The only cliff carvings in Japan designated National Treasure - 61 figures cut into soft tuff, which gave them their rounded faces.
OitaArchitectureKunisaki
Rokugo Manzan of Kunisaki
Temples across a peninsula where gods and Buddhas were never separated, linked by mountain paths walked as training.
OitaArt & Crafts
OitaArt & CraftsKunisaki
Kunisaki Pagodas
A stone pagoda form found only on this peninsula, its base carved with lotus petals unlike any elsewhere.
OitaArchitectureNakatsu
Ao no Domon
A monk watched travellers fall from a cliff path and spent thirty years cutting a tunnel with hammer and chisel; the marks remain.
OitaArt & CraftsKunisaki
Stone Monuments of Kunisaki
Stone Buddhas and pagodas scattered across the whole peninsula - the soft tuff made carving easy and the tradition dense.
Bungo-Ōno
Kagura of Bungo
Each hamlet has its own troupe, repairing and reusing masks whose carving betrays which troupe they belong to.
OitaArt & CraftsBungo-Ōno
Cliff Buddhas of Bungo Ono
Cliff carvings across the province; with Usuki, Oita has the densest concentration of them in Japan.
Beppu
Bamboo Artists of Oita
Artists here moved from weaving into free sculpture in bamboo - a craft district that crossed into contemporary art.
Bungotakada
Sculptors of Bungo
A peninsula far from the capital that kept many Heian and Kamakura images - enough to compare provincial hands.