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EVENTS in Onaka Ancient Village

Acorns Map

You can see various kinds of acorn in the open space in front of th museum and in Onaka Iseki park. The Japanese apricot forest is in blossom in early spring, Ginkgo trees change clolr to yellow in autumn.
Club members join various events through the year in the open space outside, in the museum, and join other regional events as well.　



*EVENTS in the museum and in the open space there

Let's play in Onaka Iseki park



Feel like Yayoi people
Let's play in the pit houses Make a crown;
Children collected leaves and acorns in the park
to make crowns as a 'kindergarden field workshop'		 Perform an old traditonal play

HITOGATA NAGASHI

Reproduce and old purification ritual.
Transfer your bad luck, dislikes, and unhappy things onto a wooden figure,
float it on a river, and let it go away to the sea.
Hitogata nagashi alter attire onto a river


Onaka Iseki festival

: On 3rd November a big festival is held.
The start is a performance where crops and products are offered to the shaman "HIMIKO" on a stage and songs and dances follow.
The museum, club groups, and so on have workshops and food booths in the park.

The performance with 'HIMIKO' The time and the place Blacksmith with the old way
performance time and place blacksmith

Diorama of the RIKAN fort remain

Some of members made a diorama of the RIKAN fort remain on top of a mountain under a curator's instruction for a special exhibition.
Cutting Styroforam into ontours, the fort and the mountain were made and real stones were used for the fort's stonewall.
It was ixhibited at a special exhibition in the museum, and given to the board of education in Sayo-gun where the RIKAN fort is located.
Now you can see the diorama at a road station 'HIRAFUKU' in Sayo-cho.

Styroform stonewall diorama

TATAEA manufacturing

Members try iron manufacturing using old methods, instructed by a curator.

The poster Take iron-sand in a river The method;Kanna Nagashi Install tools Tatara manufacturing
what is TATAEA? iron sand kanna nagashi installing experimant

Making rice cakes with ancient rice

Pounding ancient rice into mochi (rice cake), we serve sweet red bean soup with mochi for visitors. Salls out quickly.

poster pounding mochi mochi

Outreach

Picture story show, weaving threads, rice cooking(kindling a fire), bronze replica, making magatama, wooden recorder and so on. Workshops are held in varous places, accepting requests.


Fukusaki Iseki festival Fukusaki city center(2016.8.21)
dyeing with indigo		 Inamino school
(2016.8.20)wooden name card		 weaving threads picture story show
at Kasai flower center
Fukusaki Iseki festival dyeing wooden name card weaving threads Kasai flower center