Gassho Zukuri Minka-en Shirakawa-go 合掌造り民家園
The Gassho Zukuri Minka-en or Gassho-zukuri Folklore Park is a collection of historic gassho (praying hands) buildings from the Shirakawa-go area in Gifu and Toyama prefectures. This conservation area preserves over 25 thatched buildings in traditional style within lovely natural surroundings.
Gassho-Zukuri thatched-roof houses of Shirakawa, Japan
[Japan] What to Expect Minka-en Shirakawago Village, Gifu Prefecture, Japan Spring
April 14, 2019
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going to see the Gassho houses
World Heritage Site Shirakawago Gassho-zukuri Houses
The historic village of Shirakawago Gassho-zukuri(“prayer-hands construction) houses are located in the north-western part of Gifu prefecture. There are still old traditions remaining and people leading a fairly normal life today. Shirakawago's Gassho-zukuri houses were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. You can understand the Japanese traditions and the wisdom of integrated life with nature at outdoor heritage museum and attractions. Surrounded by organic nature, Shirakawago is the hometown of Japanese soul which will remind you of the origin of Japan. It captures the wisdom and nature-life techniques by the people who live there. Gassho-zukuri is very unique and cannot be found in other places.
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Adeyto ????️inside SHIRAKAWAGO MYOZENJI TEMPLE MUSEUM Traditional Roof Gassho Architecture
Finally we get to enter one of these amazing houses with huge thatched roof! MYOZENJI TEMPLE MUSEUM is the tallest building of Shirakawago with lovely views of rice fields and houses and the mountains in the distance! It is a museum where you pay less than $3 to enter and even receive for free e photo of yourself holding the SARUBOBO (red human-shaped dolls, with no facial features but apparently a monkey as a charm for good marriage, good children and to ensure a well-rounded couple.)
The monk’s residence, bell tower gate, and main hall were constructed in around 1800 following the temple’s establishment in 1748.
The monk’s residence (or “kuri”) provided housing and kitchen facilities for monks living at the temple. The interior currently serves as an exhibition space displaying everyday items from the past. The bell tower gate (or “shoromon”) features a thatched roof, below which hangs the temple bell (or “bonsho”). The original bell was requisitioned for its metal during WWII, and the current bell was cast following the war. The main hall enshrines an image of Buddha.
Rice paddies and Gassho-Zukuri houses, Shirakawa, Japan
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Gassho-Zukuri thached roof houses with little kids playing;; Shirakawa, Japan
Those kids did not want me recording them (which is why I turned the camera away). First I said to them, in Japanese, Good morning!, and they said No!. Then I said Don't be shy., and again, they said No!. I guess country folk are scared of outsiders...
Gassho-style houses in Gokayama Japan
With more than twenty well-preserved Gasshouzukuri buildings, Ainokura is a piece of living history
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Gassho-Zukuri Villages 合掌造りの村 Shirakawago 白川郷 Gokayama 五箇山 Ainokura 相倉
In the three villages of Ogimachi, Ainokura, and Suganuma there are groups of gassho-zukuri houses, which are much larger than farmhouses in most other regions. The thatched gassho-zukuri roofs are tall and steep. The term gassho-zukuri literally means praying hands. As it snows heavily in this region, the roof helps the snow to slip off and prevents the house being crushed. No nails or clamps are used in the attic to withstand the weight of heavy snow. The roof structure also minimises the sun's heat absorbed in summer.
The space inside is divided into three or four levels, which were used for raising silkworms and making hemp and washi paper. The ground floor was occupied by daily work, and silkworms were moved from one floor to another, because they require varying amounts of heat and light in their growth. Such in-house works during winter provided an important source of income in the remote and mountainous region with limited agricultural products. Each house was used to keep smouldering embers to control humidity, deter insects, and keep the thatch dry.
The oldest houses were built 400 years ago.
In earlier times, the gassho-zukuri villages were so isolated that even birds did not fly there, so they say. Ainokura was also a place of exile. A banishment hut used for unfortunate persons labelled as politically dangerous remains in Kaminashi. Until relatively recently the villages had little contact with outside world. This isolation helped preserve a local way of life and extended families of many generations. Indigenous styles of performing arts have also evolved and been preserved intact in this way.
When Prince Akishino visited Ainokura in 1992 he said that the village is one of the three places in the world he likes most. He told that for the first time he was in Ainokura by himself alone taking part in the summer training of geography. The prince said that now I visit with my spouse but next time I wish to visit with my children
Slide at Gassho Village Gero, Gifu prefecture April 2013 (part 1)
part 1 of the large slider at Gassho Village, in Gero, Japan. Cost Y100, and i went on it twice. Lots of fun, made of rollers. Im guessing its about 230m long, and part 2 of the slide didnt turn out so good :(
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Japan travel guide to Nikko Japan |
If you are planning a trip to Japan, it can be really hard to choose where to go to so here are some of the main places you should visit if it is your first time here!
TOKYO
- Asakusa
・Sensoji Temple
・Nakamise Shopping Street
・Asakusa Tourist Information Center Free View
・Sumida Park
- Ueno
・Ueno Park (Zoo, museums and temples)
- Meiji Shrine
・Nearby there is Omotesando, Harajuku, Takeshita-dori, Yoyogi park
- Tokyo Imperial Palace
- Tokyo Tower
- Odaiba (Couldn't make it in the video, but I love this area personally!)
HAKONE & MT. FUJI
- Togendai to Owakundani Ropeway
- Owakudani Station (Top of volcano)
- Gotemba Peace Park
- Fujisan World Heritage Site
- Mt. Fuji First Station and Fifth Station (If weather is good)
- Fuji Five Lakes (Lake Kawaguchi)
MATSUMOTO (NAGANO)
- Matsumoto Castle
TAKAYAMA (GIFU)
- Old Town of Takayama
- Takayama Jinya
- Takayama Morning Market
SHIRAKAWA-GO (GIFU)
- Shiroyama Viewpoint
- Gassho-zukuri Minkaen open air museum
KANAZAWA (ISHIKAWA)
- Kenrokuen (Kenroku Gardens)
KYOTO
- Kiyomizu Temple
- Nishijin Textile Center
・Nishijin Kimono Show
- Heian Shrine/Heian Shrine Garden
- Golden Pavilion Kinkakuji
- Gion
・Miyako Odori - Cherry Blossom Dancing Performance Show
- Kamogawa River
NARA
- Todaiji Temple
- Deer Park
OSAKA
- Dotonbori
- Shinsaibashi
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In this Nikko Guide, you'll learn about 17 Things to do in Nikko
17. Lake Chuzenzi Kayaking
16. Senjogahara Marshland
15. Kegon Falls
14. Shinkyo Bridge
13. Kanmangafuchi Abyss
12. Mount Hangetsu
11. Akechiddaira Ropeway
10. Ryuokyo Canyon
9. Suspension Bridge
8. Shogetsu Himuro Shave Ice
7. Kirifuri Camp Soba Noodle Making
6. Katayama Sake tour
5. Ryuzu Falls
4. Public Baths, Kanaya Kinugawa Hotel
3. Tobu World Tour
2. Tosho-Gu Shrine
1. Rinnoji Zen Experience
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History of Nikko
Beginning of Mountain Worship in Nikko
In 766 when the capital of Japan was Nara, a Buddhist priest named Shodo Shonin (Saint Shodo), stepped into the mountains in Nikko and founded the Shihonryuji Temple (the origin of the Nikkosan Rinnoji Temple),: this was the beginning of the history of Nikko. Then, Shodo Shonin tried to climb the 2,486-high Mt. Nantaisan and reached to the top at the third attempt. Having founded okumiya (the rear shrine), and hongu (main shrine), there, he opened the Jinguji Temple (current Chuzenji Temple), by the Chuzenji Lake. From this time, Nikko’s prosperity began, as a sacred place of faith where Shintoism to worship the mountain god coexists with Buddhism to consider the mountains as the pure land of the Goddess of Mercy.
“Portrait of Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu” (In Possession of the Homotsu-kan at Nikko Toshogu Shrine),Splendorous and Flamboyant Shrine Constructed by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokuga Ieyasu is the Shogun who established the Edo bakufu that was to be maintained for more than 250 years. Wishing to watch his country to be in peace, Ieyasu left a will to construct a small shrine in the mountain of Nikko and enshrine his bones. After Ieyasu had died in 1616, the shrine was constructed in Nikko next year to follow his will. Then, the shrine renovated into the current splendorous and flamboyant style of the Nikko Toshogu Shrine by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third Shogun and Ieyasu’s grandson. Iemitsu wished to serve Ieyasu even after his death and ordered to construct the Taiyuin, the mausoleum of himself, in the mountain of Nikko. After that, Nikko was prospered as a town built around the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, and more than 200,000 cedar trees were planted on the approach to the shrine by his subjects.
Secluded Area Where Fleeing Heike Warriors Inhabited Secretly
The battle between the Minamotos and the Tairas started in 1185 and divided Japan into two. It is said that some warriors of the Taira clan who defeated at the battle fled to this place, which was more than 1,000km away from the battle area, and inhabited secretly. They made their own communities by dangerous ravines near Yunishigawa and Kawamata to hide and escape from their enemy, and their ancestors have lived there for several hundred years quietly and secretly. Even now, they have maintained their own unique custom: for example, they do not emit smoke from their houses and do not keep dogs and hens, because of the big noise they make.
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Inside a Gassho-zukuri house_ the WADA house. 2015
At the ground floor is the irori hearth.
Those times a fire was kept constantly burning in the hearth, which was where the cooking was done and the family would gather to eat. No chimneys were built into the houses, and so smoke from the fire simply rises through the rafters to the roof. There, it deposits a layer of soot, which helps preserve the rafters and also keeps down the number of insects and other small creatures that would damage the thatch covering the gassho-zukuri roofs.
It was, however, for the benefit of one particular insect that the gassho-zukuri developed into such large structures. The top two or three floors of the building were used for raising silkworms in what was once a major local industry. The gassho-zukuri roofs allowed large window openings to be built, and these gave the silkworms sufficient light and ventilation. Except along the walls, no pillars were used in the gassho-zukuri construction, thereby opening up a sizable working area. And this space was given over to the large trays on which the silkworms were kept, voraciously munching their way through the piles of mulberry leaves.
Wada-ke House.
The Wada family was one of the wealthiest families and village leaders of Ogimachi. Their former home is the largest gassho-zukuri farmhouse inOgimachi, and is now open to the public as a museum.
Ogimachi is the largest village and main attraction of Shirakawa-go. Declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1995, the village is home to several dozen well preserved gassho-zukuri farmhouses, some of which are more than 250 years old.
400 year old Gassho Zukuri house_Murakame-ke
Murakami-ke, one of the oldest gasshô houses in the region (dating from 1578).
In Kaminashi, Gokayama.
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[Gifu Travelogue: Gokayama, another village of Gassho-zukuri, prayer-hands construction style]
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Gassho Zukuri Thatching Performative Prototype
Inside a gassho-zukuri house, with zoom to elevated viewpoint of village
in Shirakawa, Japan.