April 20, 2010

No.3 Digest

Kumagaya City KONAN Cultural Properties Center329, Sendai, kumagaya, saitama, 360-0107 Japan http://www.kumagaya-bunkazai.jp/TOPICS
Cultural properties fire prevention day
Tuesday, January 26 called cultural properties fire prevention day. The fire drill andthe inspection of the fire prevention management situation were executed inKaminomura shrines (Kamino) and Komiya shrines (Ikegami). In Kaminomura shrine,
the fire drill and the water-discharge exercise at the early stage of the ignition wereexecuted. In Komiya shrine, we confirmed the fire prevention management situation ofthe building where "Shishigashira" of the city specification cultural property was kept,and exchanged opinions about correspondence method of the emergency.

Event of opening to the public of important cultural property Kangiin Shotendo
The event was held at the period the 31st from March 25. The event that the completed upper part of the building isopened to the public with pay was held in Menuma-Kangiin-Shotendo.
There were 1,126 participants in total in spite of while it was short of seven days. Those who came were gazing to a
lot of sculptures from which a splendid main shrine, gold foil, and a vivid coloring were given.

Oegawa Shishi festival
Saturday, March 13. Oegawa Shishi festival of the city specification intangible
folk-cultural property was held in the Takane shrine and the Oegawa area. This festival
is the one done as a festival in the spring of the Takane shrine. And, people go it round"Oshisisama" in the district for bearing exaltedly. Every year the Shishi borrows from theYaeda shrine in Ageo City.

City excavation information
Maenakanishi sites―Big building with pillars embedded directly in the ground and river marks
The excavation investigation in the Kamino district was executed from January through March of this year.
Maenakanishi sites are paid to attention by the villages formed large-scale and widely from the middle on the age of
Yayoi to latter term having been discovered.
In this excavation, we confirmed pit houses that had been made at the middle on the age of Yayoi and the latter termof the old Kofun age. Moreover, we discovered building with pillars embedded directly in the ground that had been
formed from the Asuka age to the Nara era and a lot of monuments and river marks.

Research status of burial money
Burial money that had been excavated in Suwanoki site (Kamino) in 2008 fiscal
year was taken up by each mass communication and creates sensations. Because
this burial money is well of the excavation and a lot of the number of sheets
However, the situation of burial money has deteriorated. It is caused as dryness
and a crack and a sudden fall of foundation. Then, we and engineers fixed
foundation, cleaned the surface (work that the burial soil and the plant splinterremoved), and executed the drawing making the current state in 2009 fiscal year.We
consigned the measurement of three dimensions(3D) to restore the actual thing, andacquired the precious data. This is open to the public now on the homepage.

Serials Protection activity of buried cultural properties
Chapter 3 Trial excavation method ②
The confirmation of sites by the trial excavation is understood from the presence of therelic and the monument (artificial signs). We judge the excavation situation of earthenware;
the clay image, natural stone and difference of the stone implement one to ascertain a traceof the processing. Additionally, the investigator examines the situation of the stratum.

Reports
Investigation of frame of the arithmetic (Sangaku)
The confirmation investigation of the management situation of city specification cultural "Frame of the arithmetic(Sangaku)" was done in the owner house in the Dai district in the beginning of February. Sangaku is wooden frame inwhich the problem of arithmetic was recorded.
This flame is derived from Daijima Kyubei who connect academic genealogy of Seki Takakazu. He dedicated theflame to Suwa Shrine in the Dai district in March, 1847. The state of conservation was excellent though weakening of
the character of the Indian ink had been seen about the actual thing.The character of the Indian ink had thinned.
However, it seems to be unquestionable for the state of conservation.

Installation of Miyatsuka mounded tomb’s explanation board
We set up the explanation board of the Miyatsuka mounded tomb of the national
historical relic site in Hirose at the end of March. The Miyatsuka mounded tomb wasspecified for the cultural property in 1956. It is historic spot of the only country
designated in Kumagaya city. This mounded tomb has dome shaped knoll on a squarebase that is unusual on a nationwide scale. To improve the concern for mounded tomb,
we contemplate the design and the objection of the explanation board. Let's see this
explanation board, and go to the Miyatsuka mounded tomb.

Heritage Pilgrimage
Negishi-family’s terrace house gate (Negishike-Nagayamon)
City specification cultural property “Negishi-family’s terrace house gate(Negishike - Nagayamon)” was architectural at the tempestuous period of thesecond half of the Tokugawa shogun ate restoration, and expanded. People ofthe Negishi family have carved both histories for this construction in a rapid
modernization of Meiji Restoration. The Negishi family was the headman in theKabutoyama village. They cause water transportation of Arakawa River andthe industries, and is participating in "The principle of reverence for theEmperor” movement.
Mr. Negishi promotes repair work centering on the roof this year. We help to Mr. Negishi as it looking up at theguidance of Mr. Yokoyama’s laboratory (Institute of Technologists) to preserve and advance the repair.

Cultural Properties Column
Encounter with ancient times 3－Otsuka mounded tomb
The Otsuka mounded tomb is circular burial mound. The size is 35m in diameter, and 3.5m in height. The stonechamber at the center of the mounded tomb started dropping the ceiling stone dangerously. In July, 1982 to correspondto this, we decided to move the ceiling stone to the safe place, and to excavate the stone chamber. This column shows
the anecdote done to the excavation.

April 20, 2010 Kumagaya Cultural Properties Information NO.3 Digest
Kumagaya City KONAN Cultural Properties Center（Board of Education Social Education Division Conservation of Cultural Properties Unit）
329, Sendai, kumagaya, saitama, 360-0107 JapanTEL 048-536-5062 (+81-48-536-5062) FAX 048-536-4575 (+81-48-536-4575)
Mail c-bunkazai@city.kumagaya.lg.jp
Homepage：[Cultural Properties of Kumagaya] http://www.kumagaya-bunkazai.jp/[Kumagaya web Museum] http://www.kumagaya-bunkazai.jp/museum/index.htm: Translated by Yamashita Yuki