The building in behind had many exhibits,
which I wrote about in part1 (<link) of this article. I’ll show you special
exhibition “Memories of the village and life in the mountain. Photos and
articles of everyday use, depict the state of life of the ex-woodturners’
village in the Showa period (1926-1989)”. It was held in the building in front.
奥が part1 (<リンク)で紹介した木地屋民俗資料館。part2では、手前の建物で開催されていた特別展「集落の記憶・山の暮らし・・・写真と民具で伝える昭和の木地屋・・・」を紹介します。
The four seasons of the village wherein nine families lived. The photos were taken mainly in around 1960, so woodturning work had already ended. However, we could know the life in the mountain village. The exhibits would change every other year.
9戸あった集落の四季のようすが記録されています。写真は主に昭和30年代で、木地師の仕事は終えた後ではありますが、山での人々の暮らしがわかります。なお、特別展は、2年毎に展示がかわるそうです。
Spring、春
Weeding of rice fields in 1958. I hear it is a painstaking work because an edge of a rice plant stings. Relatives joined and did it together. They had leeway for grinning. It is written, “Taking a short break, straightening their back, and taking a commemorative photo”.
There were fields but those were not large enough. It is said that their main earnings were forestry even after quitting woodturning job.
親戚に手伝ってもらった田の草取り(昭和33年)。稲の刃先が腕を刺すきつい仕事だときいています。従事している方が若いせいか笑顔をみせる余裕も。“手を休めて腰を伸ばしての記念写真” と書かれています。
水田はありますが、山中ゆえに広くはありません。木地師の仕事は終わっても、山仕事は重要な稼ぎだったようです。
Summer、夏
Construction of an elementary school in 1953. Villagers looked vital. The school was unfortunately closed in 1972 because of lack of pupils.
集落の小学校の建て前(昭和28年)。残念ながら昭和47年に閉校。まだ集落の力を感じます。
It was written at the top, “Time moved slowly in our village back then.” It’s good! We don’t need to rush.
タイトルは「あのころ 村には ゆったりとした時がながれていた」。いいですねえ。
A village holiday in Jun, 1941. It says, “On the next day when all families finished rice planting, all villagers took a farming leave. All luds went to a pond for fishing. The guy on the left had proudly a big iwana (char) fish.”
農休みの一日(昭和16年6月)。“村中の田植えが終わった次の日は農休みといって、村人そろって仕事を休み、のんびりした。若者たちが、そろって魚池へイワナ取りに出かけた時の様子。手には大きな収穫物が誇らしげに” とあります。
School performance event in around 1965. In addition to pupils’ performance, mothers danced. They wore flashy kimono which they used during adolescents. Everybody would have cheered neighbors’ play.
小学校の学芸会の余興(昭和40年代初め)。お母さんたちが娘時代の着物を着て踊りました。見知った人が演じると盛り上がりますね。
Autumn、秋
Autumn festival in September, 1954. The banner was raised.
昭和29年9月。秋祭りの幟が上がっています。
Winter、冬
The exhibit on the right is a sled, on which lumbers and so on were loaded. Snow helped to move the sled.
右にあるのは雪上で木などを運び下ろす一本ぞり。
Snow covers the village. The photo was taken in around 1960.
冬は雪に覆われます(昭和30年代)。
New Year decoration on New Year's Eve in 1955. The annual events and those practices were similar to other mountain villages, I think.
正月の飾り(昭和30年大晦日)。木地屋では松ではなく杉を使いました。当時の年中行事は、木地師ではない山里と似ていると思います。
The photo above is precious! There were houses and small rice fields. The Buddhist hall (upper left) still remains.
家屋と小さな棚田が残る貴重な写真。お堂(左上)はいまも残っています。
We can operate the turning lathe. It is very easy to rotate it while not carving wood.
ろくろの体験コーナーもあります。木材に刃を当てていないと、とても軽く回ります。
I went down to the valley and saw a single-car diesel train departed from Hiraiwa station. Only 16 trains run a day in total, so I was glad to see it. It is an old familiar scenery. Btw, it would be possible that car would take the roll of the railway.
姫川渓谷に降りると、大糸線のディーゼルカーが平岩駅を出発したところ。廃線が議論されています。土砂崩れや水害で線路の維持が大変そう。郷愁をかきたてられる原風景ではありますが、鉄路より道路が現実的ですね。
Visited in Aug, 2025
Official website: https://kijiyanosato.sakura.ne.jp/
(in Japanese), accessed in July, 2026
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