Location Hakui History and Folklore Museum
Ouchigata Lagoon Agricultural Tool: Tabune Rice Boat
- Display status
- On display
- Period
- Up to the Showa Period (postwar period)
- Form/Type
- Folk material
- Location
- Hakui City
Ouchigata lagoon underwent land reclamation called shinkai (opening of uncultivated land) from the late Edo Period to the Meiji Period. The newly converted land in the lagoon was extremely soft, so the yield was gradually increased by raising the sludge on the bottom of the lagoon and creating ridges. Tabune were tools used to transport harvested rice through such soft rice fields. They are also called tazuribune, which means to “touch lightly and crawl atop the rice fields”.
Postwar land reclamation work at Ouchigata lagoon increased the number of rice fields, however the rice fields were very soft, and people were forced to farm up to their waists in sludge. Tabune were used up until the postwar Showa Period.
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A local history museum that opened in 1983. They collect materials that convey the history and culture of Hakui City (archaeological materials, historical materials, folk implements, etc.), preserve them, conduct research on them and display them publicly. The folk implements exhibition room on the first floor explains the tools used in Hakui's past way of living. The history exhibition room on the second floor displays valuable excavated items mainly from the Yoshisaki-Suba Site, a Nationally Designated Historic Site, and the Jike Site, as well as historical materials such as ancient documents. They also hold ancient experience classes and events such as magatama (comma-shaped stone bead) making and fire starting experiences. Please feel free to stop by and experience the history of Hakui.
38-1 Tsurutada, Tsurutamachi, Hakui, 925-0027 Google Maps
TEL 0767-22-5998 E-mail post@city.hakui.lg.jp
