Location Hakui History and Folklore Museum
Sugaike Winnowing Tools
- Display status
- On display
- Period
- Showa Period
- Form/Type
- Folk material
- Location
- Hakui City
The mi (winnow) is a tool that has been used since ancient times and is indispensable for agricultural work. In addition to transporting rice and other grains, they are also used to create wind to sift them. Winnows used to be produced all over Japan, however due to the mechanization of agriculture and the spread of plastic products, there are now extremely few production areas.
Winnowing has been practiced as mountain handiwork in the mountainous area of Sugaike, Hakui City. Old documents from the middle of the Edo Period also show that they were made as a product, in addition to the agricultural work there.
At its peak from the Meiji to Taisho Periods, as many as 50,000 pieces were produced each year, shipping mainly to Hokkaido and widely distributed.
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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
