There is White Road which links Shirakawa-go in Gifu pref. and Hakusan City in Ishikawa pref. of central Japan. The museum is at the end of the mountainous winding road in Hakusan City. Although I guessed it would be a nature museum, it showed me the life in the mountainous area , which is a theme of this blog. I could know not only the harsh life in the snowy area but also the fun things of children . 白川郷からホワイトロードを石川県側におりて最初にある施設です。自然の展示かなと思ってのぞいたのですが、 昔の暮らしも展示 されていてビックリ。 山中で暮らした子どもたちの楽しみ が伝わりました。厳しい自然環境の中でも、人びとが暮らしている姿に感激です。 The full-scale model is a classroom of “ Summer school at Chugu hot spring”. It says, “ Pupils lived in mountains from spring to autumn , because their parents worked at mountains for slash-and-burn agriculture, making charcoal and so on. It was also a hot spring resort , so some worked at inns.” かつて集落にあった「 中宮温泉夏季分校 」をイメージした教室です。 “ 生徒は、春から秋の間だけ山で焼畑や炭焼きなど をして生活する「出作り」小屋や、古くから 湯治場 として親しまれた中宮温泉の子どもたちでした。”と書かれています。 Before White Road was constructed, there w...
Toyama House is at Miboro district in Shiragaka-go area in central Japan ; the most popular tourist spot "Ogimachi" district in Shirakawa-go area is at the downstream of Miboro. Toyama family was the hereditary village head and also was one of three clans of manufacturing and sales of gunpowder material in the area. The house was built in around 1827 . It is famous that the big family (forty members at the peak time ) lived in it ; Yanagita Kunio, who was the initiator of Japan folklore, investigated it. It is said that extended families lived in the same house because there is not enough flat land. 外国人に人気の 白川郷・荻町集落の上流にある御母衣集落の名主を務めたのが遠山家 。白川郷に３軒しかない焔硝の製造販売を取りまとめた家でした。 築年は 1827 年頃。特筆すべきは、 40 人もの大家族 で暮らしたことで、民俗学の創始者・柳田國男らが調査に訪れ有名になりました。耕地となる平地に恵まれず、分家することが容易ではなかったため、大家族形態の家族構成になったといわれています。 The toilet and its tank are by the entrance ; there is also a big tank outside (upper left). Urine was material of gunpowder , which had been manufactured until 1887. 玄関の脇に大きな便槽 ...