Akiu Craft Park in Sendai
Welcome to Akiu! A feast of natural scenery, hot spring resorts and gourmet food. Akiu Craft Park at the heart of Akiu is a designated location that brings Miyagi craftsmanship to one spot. You can enjoy shopping, or experience making your own crafts.
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Akiu Craft Park : Urushi Lacquered Chopsticks
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce Akira Kumano, a lacquer master who is specialized in the famed Sendai Tansu chests. At his store, you can experience making your own chopsticks, from cutting the wood to painting and lacquering and take home a truly Japanese souvenir.
Akiu Craft Park : Ganguan Kokeshi Doll
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the Sakunami Style Kokeshi master, Akira Suzuki. Drop by his place to make your own Kokeshi and remember your Sendai trip every time you look at it.
Akiu Craft Park : Sato Kokeshi Doll
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the Sakunami Style Kokeshi master, Kazuo Sato. Come and take home a token of your Tohoku Journey.
Akiu Craft Park : Wooden Top
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the Edo Wooden Top master, Michiaki Hiroi. Drop by his place to make your own wooden top and enter his world of magical motions.
秋保の紅葉 仙台 / Fall Colors in Akiu Sendai, Miyagi
The Heart of Miyagi Crafts : AKiu Craft Park
Welcome to Akiu! A feast of natural scenery, hot spring resorts and gourmet food. Akiu Craft Park at the heart of Akiu is a designated location that brings Miyagi craftsmanship to one spot. You can enjoy shopping, or experience making your own crafts.
Sealing the Transient Wood Into Immortality : Urushi Lacquer
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the Akira Kumano, a Japanese Lacquer master, who specializes in fames Sendai Tansu chests. Drop by his place to make your own Urushi chopsticks.
Akiu Craft Park : Indigo Dyeing
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce Tsuruko Watanabe, a lady master of fabric from thread making to weaving and dyeing. You can dye your own Shibori with Indigo at her place and take home a priceless souvenir.
Reflections on the face of Akiu Kokeshi Doll | 秋保こけしの表情
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the Akiu Style Kokeshi maker Sato san. Drop by his place to make your own Kokeshi doll that reflects the sentiments of your Tohoku Journey.
Magical Twirls of Akiu Wooden Top | 秋保の独楽が作る不思議な円模様
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the Edo Wooden Top master, Michiaki Hiroi. Drop by his place to make your own wooden top and enter his world of magical twirls.
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Let’s Go! Adventuring in Akiu
Akiu is a famous hot spring town in Miyagi prefecture located South-West of Sendai. It is accessible from Sendai Station through public transportation by taking the JR Senzan Line to Ayashi Station, then transferring to a bus for 25 minutes South to Akiu.
Living so close to Akiu, I have been fortunate to visit many times. Every time that I have visited there is something new to discover. Not shown in the video but other recommended highlights from past trips here are the Kaleidoscope Museum, Akiu Craft Park, Akiu Winery and Akiu Great Falls. Akiu is beautiful in every season and with its many different hot spring hotels, it is definitely worth it to visit more than once.
Locations visited: Akiu Sato Center, Saichi Shufu No Mise, Sakan Onsen, Rai Rai Gorge, Yumoto Park
The Let's Go Series was produced to inspire my ES children to get outside and explore. Only basic English is used in the videos so that children learning English as a second language can follow along.
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Inside Tohoku: หมู่บ้านหัตถกรรมพื้นบ้านอะกิอุ
แนะนำการท่องเที่ยวแถบโทโฮคุแบบเจาะลึกกว่าใคร Inside Tohoku
คลิปแรกนี้ เราจะพาไปแนะนำที่ท่องเที่ยวสำหรับคนที่ชอบงานหัตถกรรมฝีมือ และวัฒนธรรมญี่ปุ่นโดยเฉพาะ
หมู่บ้านหัตถกรรมพื้นบ้านอะกิอุ (Akiu Traditional Craft Village)
เป็นหมู่บ้านที่รวบรวมงานหัตถกรรมขึ้นชื่อของจังหวัดมิยากิ ที่สืบทอดและคัดสรรงานคุณภาพมานานกว่า 20 ปี พระเอกของงานจะเป็นใครไปไม่ได้ นอกจากตุ๊กตาไม้ โคเคชิ งานหัตถกรรมที่มีต้นกำเนิดในภูมิภาคโทโฮคุ และมีเอกลักษณ์แตกต่างกันไปในแต่ละภูมิภาคนั่นเอง
การเดินทางนั้นก็ไม่ยากเลย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นรถส่วนตัวจากเซนไดประมาณ 45 นาที หรือจะนั่งรถประจำทางจากสถานีเซนไดก็ใช้เวลาเพียง 1 ชั่วโมงเท่านั้น
หากมีโอกาสแวะเวียนมาโทโฮคุ และต้องการประสบการณ์ใหม่ๆ ขอฝากหมู่บ้านหัตถกรรมพื้นบ้านอะกิอุไว้ในใจด้วยนะครับ
【秋保工芸の里】-Akiu Craft Park-
【技と暮らしが風土にとけあう処】
「秋保工芸の里」には、古くから受け継がれてきた伝統工芸の職人たち、9つの工房が仕事を行い、生活をしています。伝統技術をかたくなまでに守り継承する工人達の姿と、丹精こめた作品の数々をぜひご覧ください。
■秋保工芸の里
宮城県仙台市太白区秋保町湯元字上原54
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Akiu Craft Park keeps traditional craftmanship alive for 9 types of crafts including making Sendai tansu (wooden chests), traditional kokeshi dolls, Edo spintops, toys made by woodturners, and tea utensils, as well as dyeing and weaving.
■Akiu Craft Park
Miyagi Prefecture, Sendai, Taihaku Ward, Akiumachi Yumoto, Uehara54
Patience and Devotion : Indigo Dye | 忍耐と献身 : 藍染め
Welcome to Akiu Craft Park, a designated village that gathers all the local crafts of Akiu, Sendai in one place for your visit. In this episode we introduce the lady master of Fabric Tsuruko Watanabe. Drop by her place to make your own Indigo Dyed Shibori (Japanese Handkerchief) and take home a unique souvenir from Tohoku.
Sendai Kokeshi: Ganguan Kokeshiya
Ganguan Kokeshiya preserves the tradition of Sendai style Kokeshi, traditional dolls we well as various wooden toys in Akiu Craft Park.
Akira Suzuki, the third generation craftsman, talks about the tradition and the future of Sendai style Kokeshi.
【秋保工芸の里】埋もれ木
小竹 孝(こたけ・たかし)
埋もれ木細工職人。1944年仙台市生まれ。埋もれ木細工師の父の影響を受け、15歳から本格的な「埋もれ木細工」の道へ。
1966年、南仙台中田に工房を構え独立。1988年、製作拠点を「秋保工芸の里」へ。埋もれ木細工職人「最後の砦」として、仙台の伝統工芸をリードしている。
1984年「第24回伝統工芸新作展日本工芸界東日本支部賞」
1986年「宮城県芸術選奨励賞」
2001年「第48回日本伝統工芸展・日本工芸会奨励賞」
等、受賞多数。
▼埋もれ木細工
住所：秋保町湯元字上原54-30
電話： 022-398-2803
配信：仙台インターネットテレビ局アリティーヴィー株式会社
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Filipinos in the Akiu Craft Park!!!
In May 2014, many guests from Philippines arrived at the Akiu Craft Park to try kokeshi doll painting.
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伊達なおもてなし巡り「仙台四郎に会える店」#01 開盛庵
【伊達なおもてなし巡り「仙台四郎に会える店」#01 開盛庵】
明治時代に仙台に実在したという商売繁盛の福の神 仙台四郎
人の優しさに福を呼んだ神様は、今もこの街を優しく見守っています。
Sendai Tansu Chest: Kumanodō
Sendai Tansu is a fully handcrafted chest made by craftsmen.
Kumanodō is located at the Akiu Craft Park in Sendai, Japan, which makes traditional Sendai Tansu ground up.
In this video, Akira Kumano tells the history of the chest as well as his vision for the future of Sendai Tansu.