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Nagashima Museum
On a hill facing the bay and the volcano, holding both Satsuma ware and European modern painting.
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Satsuma Ware
Begun by abducted Korean potters, and split into white ware for the lord and black for everyone else - class made into pottery.
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Miyama Pottery Village
The village where the abducted potters were settled; families that never changed their Korean names still fire kilns here.
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Satsuma Cut Glass
Thick coloured glass cut so the edges gradate; the craft died with the domain and was reconstructed in 1985.
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Yakusugi Woodcraft
Only stumps left by Edo-period logging may be used; no living tree is cut, and the timber is three centuries old before it starts.
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Reviving Satsuma Glass
A technique lost for 120 years, reverse-engineered from surviving pieces - the reconstruction itself the achievement.
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White Satsuma
Thin ivory-white ware painted in gold and colour for the lord's use; world's fairs made it an export line called simply SATSUMA.
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Black Satsuma
The black ware ordinary people used - undecorated, its shape decided entirely by what it had to do.
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Katsuobushi Sheds of Makurazaki
Sheds along the harbour where fish are smoked for months into what is said to be the hardest food in the world.
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Shochu Distilleries of Kagoshima
Fermenting jars are sunk into the floor, so the surrounding earth holds the temperature steady.
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Shimazu Patronage of Craft
The lords set pottery, glass and metal workshops in their own castle town and directed them personally.