Fun of Good Old Japanese - 江戸・明治に学ぶ　楽しむ生き方

  Everybody knows about the 2011 Tsunami circumstance in Japan. This happened also in Fukushima prefecture, and caused the nuclear plant problem.  Fukushima has a huge prefectural museum which has a plenty of exhibits. Folklore exhibition room which is main interest of this blog is just as large as a class room, but it shows people’s lives in this prefecture well.  I extract “Fun of Old Japanese” from the folklore room in part 1 . In part 2, I do it from the huge history exhibition room. Btw, the museum is located in Aizu-wakamatsu city which is inland of the prefecture.  巨大な博物館で展示物も豊富です。本ブログのテーマの民俗関係は教室一つより大きいぐらいですが、人の暮らしが良く分かりました。 パートⅠでは民俗関係の展示 から、パート 2 では膨大な歴史関係の展示から、人びとの楽しみを拾っていきます。会津若松にあります。 It was a light snow day when I visited in November. It's at the beginning of the snow season. 訪問したのは雪まじりの日でした There is a full-scale model of a float which is used in the Nihonmatsu  lantern festival . People hit drums on its top. エントランスホールには、 二本松提灯祭の太鼓台 の実物大モデルがあります。  The sign is

 It says that a cattle themed museum is rare all over the world . It is located at Oshu city in northern Japan, where is a producing area of Maezawa-gyu (Wagyu branded beef). Cattle have brought us significant wealth. The museum shows us the cultural aspects and the biological aspect of cattle. They are not only our food but also our colleagues, I think.  世界的にも珍しい牛専門博物館 だそうです。盛岡は 前沢牛の産地 です。人類に大きな富をもたらしたという牛を人文科学と生物学の両面から捉えています。牛は、食糧としてだけでなく、仲間としても、人と関係してきました。 At the entrance hall 、エントランスには、牛の人形が。 It's a large museum、大きな博物館です   Maezawa-gyu welcomes us in the exhibition room. There are several conditions to gain the Maezawa-gyu brand such as the raising time in Maezawa in Oshu city is the longest.  展示室に入ると、 前沢牛が迎えてくれます 。一生のうち、奥州市前沢区内での飼育期間が最長であることなどの条件を満たした牛が「前沢牛」を名乗れます。 Stud bulls and breeders 、種牛とその育成者  “ Kuroko” was born at a breeding farm in western Japan, then it was sent to a fattening one in Maezawa. The  breeder’s daughter attached the letter to Kuroko in order to a