Profile Sazanami

1:Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto

2:Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara

3:Hiroshima Peace Memorial

4:Sydney Opera House

5:Greater Blue Mountains Area

6:Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Garden

7:Shark Bay

8:Purnululu National Park

9:Kakadu National Park

10:Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

11:Great Barrier Reef

12:Fraser Island

13:Australian Fossil Mammal Sites

14:Wet Tropics

15:Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves

16:Lord Howe Island Group

17:Willandra Lakes Region

18:Tasmanian Wilderness

19:Histric City of Ayuthaya and Associated Historic Towns

20:Historic City of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns

21:Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries

22:Angkor

23:Ban Chiang Archaeological Site

24:Shrines and Temples of Nikko

25:Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Route in the Kii Mountain Range

26:Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest

27:Medieval Town of Torun

28:Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork

29:Old City of Zamosc

30:Wooden Churches of Sourthern Little Poland

31:Kalwaria Zebrzydowska:the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park

32:Cracow's Historic Center

33:Auschwitz Concentration Camp

34:Wieliczka Salt Mine

35:Centennial Hall in Wroclaw

36:Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica

37:Historic Center of Prague

38:Kutna Hora:Historic Town Center with the Church of St.Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec

39:Litmysl Castle

40:Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc

41:Tugendhat Villa in Brno

42:Gardens and Castle at Kromeriz

43:Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

44:Pilgrimage Church of St.John of Nepomuk at Zelena Hora

45:The Jewish Quarter and St.Procopius Basillica in Trebic

46:Historic Center of Telc

47:Holasovice Historical Village Reservation

48:Historic Center of Cesky Krumlov

49:Historic Center of Vienna

50:Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn

51:Skocjan Caves

52:City of Graz-Historic Center

53:Semmering Railway

54:Wachau Cultural Landscape

55:Cultural Landscape of Ferto/Neusiedlersee

56:Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment

57:Early Christian Necropolis of Pecs

58:Old Village of Holloko and its Surroundings

59:Budapest,including the Banks of the Danube ,the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrassy Avenue

60:Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika

61:Boyana Church

62:Rila Monastery

63:Pirin National Park

64:Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak

65:Ancient City of Nessebar

66:Madara Rider

67:Rock- Hewn Churches of Ivanovo

68:Srebarna Nature Reserve

69:Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari

70:Caves of Aggtelek and Slovak Karst

71:Hortobagy National Park

72:Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape

73:Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve

74:Spissky Hrad and its Associated Cultural Monuments

75:Vikolinec

76:Historic Town of Banska Stiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity

77:Muskauer Park/Park Muzakowski

78:Volklingen Ironworks

79:Messel Pit Fossil Site

80:Classical Weimar

81:Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau

82:Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg

83:Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz

84:Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam and Berlin

85:Museumsinsel,Berlin

86:Historic Center of Warsaw

87:Westminster Palace,Westminter Abbey,and Saint Margaret's Church

88:Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew

89:Maritime Greenwich

90:Tower of London

91:Blaenavon Industrial Landscape

92Derwent Valley Mills

93:Saltaire

94:Durham Castle and Cathedral

95:Frontiers of Roman Empire

96:Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

97:New Lanark

98:Liverpool-Maritime Marcantile City

99:Ironbridge Gorge

100:Blenheim Palace

101:City of Bath

102:Dorset and East Devon Coast

103:Historic Village of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

104:Mount Huangshan

105:Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui-Xidi and Hongcun

106:Classical Gardens of Suzhou

107:Vilnius Historic Center

108:Kernave Archaeological Site

109:Mir Castle Complex

110:Architectural,Residential and Cultural Complex of the Raziwill Family at Nesvizh

111:Kiev:Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings,Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

112:L'viv-the Ensemble of the Historic Center

113:Curonian Spit

114:Historic Center of Riga

115:Struve Geodetic Arc

116:Historic Center of Tallin

117:Old Rauma

118:Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmaki

119:Fortress of Suomenlinna

120:Historic Center of St.Petersburg and Related Group of Monuments

121:Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings

122:Historical Center of the City of Yaroslavl

123:Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery

124:Kremlin and Red Square,Moscow

125:Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent

126:Church of the Ascension,Kolomenskoye

127:Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad

128:Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin

129:White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

130:Historic Walled Town of Cuenca

131:Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

132:Palmeral of Elche

133:La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia

134:Mudejar Architecture of Aragon

135:University and Historic Precinct of Alcala de Henares

136:Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

137:Amiens Cathedral

138:Belfries of Belgium and France

139:Flemish Beguinages

140:Historic Center of Brugge

141:Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex

142:Grand-Place,Brussels

143:The Four Lifts on the Canal du Center and their Environs,La Louviere and Le Roeulx(Hainault)

144:Neolithic Flint Mines at Spienne(Mons)

145:Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai

146:Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta

147:Ir.D.F.Woudagemaal(D.F.Wouda Steam Pumping Station)

148:Droomakerij de Beemster(Beemster Polder)

149:Schokland and Surroundings

150:Defence Line of Amsterdam

151:Rietvelt Schroderhuis(Rietvelt Schroder House)

152:Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen

153:Aachen Cathedral

154:City of Luxenburg:its Old Quaters and Fortifications

155:Place Stanislas,Place de la Carriere,and Place d'Alliance in Nancy

156:Strasbourg-Grande ile

157:Fortifications of Vauban

158:Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans

159:Historic Site of Lyons

160:Canal du Midi

161:Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne

162:Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

163:Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Grottoes of the Vesere Valley

164:Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion

165:Bordeaux,Port of the Moon

166:Bourges Cathedral

167:Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

168:Vezelay,Church and Hill

169:Provins,Town of Medieval Fairs

170:Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

171:Cathedral of Notre-Dame,Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau,Reims

172:Chartres Cathedral

173:Palace and Park of Versailles

174:Le Havre,the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret

175:Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe

176:Paris,Banks of the Seine

177:Alejandro de Humboldt National Park

178:Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba

179:San Pedro de la Roca Castle,Santiago de Cuba

180:Desembarco del Granma National Park

181:Historic Center of Camaguey

182:Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios

183:Urban Historic Center of Cienfuegos

184:Old Havana and its Fortifications

185:Vinales Valley

186:Luis Barragan House and Studio

187:Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

188:Historic Center of Morelia

189:Hospicio Cabanas,Guadalajara

190:Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila

191:Historic Center of Zacatecas

192:Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines

193:Protective Town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesus de Nazareno de Atotolilco

194:Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro

195:Fransiscan Misiions in the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro

196:Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan

197:Historic Center of Puebla

198:Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl

199:Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco

200:Historic Center of Mexico City and Xochimilco

201:Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan

202:South China Karst

203:Dazu Rock Carvings

204:Complex of Koguryo Tombs

Tomioka Silk Mill is now aiming at to be included in the tentative list of Japan.

http://www.pref.gunma.jp/seisaku/tomioka/english.htm

That is a symbol of the Meiji Restoration which is of importance to the modernization which was accomplished in the late 19th century just in Japan among Asian countries without being colonized.

Imported into Europe when silkworms were almost dead,filature silk of Tomioka were welcome to them with surprising at their quality.

Filature itself is a complex with mills,worker's houses,administrative block and other facilities,and built with western style and Japanese traditional method of construction.

Traditional sericultural houses and natural rock shelters,in which the farmers fed silkworms,were interspersed in the surrounding area.

So that I think it could be on the WHL under the criterion (3)and(4),because Tomioka Filature,which is well preserved and only one with all major facilities intact,is a symbol of the significant stage of the Asian radical modernization by adopting western technology of architecture,factory system,productive order and so on.

Slide Show of World Heritage Sites,the Japanese HP Site.

http://www.sekaiisan.jp/


Reviewed WHS:

  1. Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh (Belarus)
  2. Muskauer Park/Park Muzakowski (Germany)
  3. Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica (Poland)
  4. Wooden Churches of Southern Little Poland (Poland)
  5. Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl (Russia)
  6. Rock-Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)
  7. Derwent Valley Mills (UK)
  8. Struve Geodetic Arc (Ukraine)