Category:

Nationally Designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property

Title:

Kitamusashi no nogu

Farming Tools from Kita-Musashi
北武蔵の農具

No. of features:

1,640 pieces

Designated:

April 13, 1983

Location:

Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore (opens to new page)

4-219 Takahanacho, Omiya Ward

Owner:

Saitama Prefecture

Description:

This collection of 1,640 items was gathered from the region around Gyoda. It includes farming equipment of all kinds, including tools used in rice paddies, fieldwork, and cotton production.  Items such as work clothes, transportation equipment, and religious and ritual tools connected to agriculture are also featured.

By learning when, where, and by whom these items were used, we can use these farming tools as a precious source of historical insight.

The collection also shows regional differences in agricultural practices.

The collection includes tools for a direct seeding method of rice cultivation practiced on the Omiya Plateau and in the Iruma/Tokorozawa region; equipment for taremaki (a farming technique where grain, human waste, and compost are mixed and sown together), commonly practiced in the area around Osato, Kodama, and Chichibu; and materials used in northeast Saitama Prefecture’s flourishing cotton industry.

Associated Texts:

(1985). “Agricultural Tools in Kita-Musashi”. Saitama Prefectural Sakitama Museum.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, locals, and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property. This cultural property’s availability may vary; for details, please contact the Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/019/003/004/p006371.html