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Our day spent visiting these two locations on the opposite sides of the Seto Inland Sea was one of the most pleasant of the entire trip. In the morning we disembarked at the port of Uno and motored by bus through rural Okayama prefecture to Kurashiki. Here we were able to visit the Ohara Museum (about which we had seen an excellent video on the bus) where we were welcomed by the current director (and grandson of the founder). Afterwards many wandered through the streets of the surrounding historic district, shopping and dropping into other smaller museums in the area.
Back on the ship for lunch, we sailed across to Takamatsu where we landed again and ventured off to see a wonderful collection of rural farmhouses brought together from all across the island at Shikoku Minka Mura. The variety of structures and the steep hillside setting (which isolated the buildings from one another and set each apart from the whole) was enhanced throughout by the works of Okamoto Kohei whose exhibition of calligraphy and paintings seemed perfectly at home in this environment, transforming the whole into a marvelous aesthetic experience.
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