YamaguchiArchitectureYamaguchi
Sesshu Garden, Joeiji
Attributed to the ink painter Sesshu, and read as applying the composition of painting to stone and water.
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YamaguchiArchitectureUbe
UBE Biennale
Japan's first international open-air sculpture competition; sixty years of prize works have filled the park.
YamaguchiArchitectureNagato
Motonosumi Shrine
A hundred and twenty-three vermilion gates curve down a cliff toward the sea, following the ground's own line.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtMine
Akiyoshidai Plateau
Japan's largest karst plateau: white limestone pillars scattered through grassland, with ten kilometres of cave beneath.
YamaguchiArchitectureShimonoseki
Tsunoshima Bridge
Its piers were kept low and its line bent for the view - civil engineering made the subject of the landscape.
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.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtMine
Akiyoshido Cave
Terraced limestone pools like rice paddies, built up by dripping water over hundreds of thousands of years.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtHagi
Citrus and Earthen Walls of Hagi
Citrus planted to give jobless samurai a livelihood now defines how the whole town looks.
YamaguchiContemporary ArtNagato
Omijima Coast
Basalt cut by wind and wave into arches and stacks, most of it visible only from a boat.