December 20, 2010

No.5 Digest

Kumagaya City KONAN Cultural Properties Center
329, Sendai, kumagaya, saitama, 360-0107 Japan http://www.kumagaya-bunkazai.jp/TOPICS
The events of Saitama inhabitant’s day
We held the cultural property event in the city various places on Sunday, November 14(Saitama inhabitants ofthe prefecture's day).
"Comma-shaped bead-making and fire causing experience" was held at theKonan cultural asset center. The meeting to be familiar with the tea ceremony
was held in the Seikeien. Moreover, the old Sakata clinic (country registeredtangible cultural property building) in Menuma was opened to the public ingeneral.
Many people entered to each places, and were spending the enhanced timewith the cultural properties.
In Seikeien

The traditional Folk-Performing Arts festival
Tuesday, November 23. "The 3rd traditional Folk-Performing Arts festival
Tales of the Past and Present（Chiiki-Dento-Geino-Konjyaku-Monogatari）"
was held in the hall at the Osato. The performer announced the traditional
Japanese theater that had done the practice repeatedly every day. The panelof the intangible folk-cultural asset was exhibited in the same place. Moreover,a lot of grade-schoolers who became successors in the future performed to theevent. The hall was wrapped in heat.

Mamada-Mansaku-Odori

Lecture of traditional Japanese theater for the citizens
November 21. The Staff held the course of the title "World of the traditional Japanese theater" in facilities in theHakoda district. In this course, it explained the outline of the traditional Japanese theater and the kind of theshishimai by using the image that collected "The 2nd traditional Folk-Performing Arts festival Tales of the Pastand Present” that had been held in 2009. We introduce you of happiness and wonderful of the traditional
Japanese theater through this course.

City excavation information
Maenakanishi sites
The mark in the river of the Kofun period is confirmed.
We executed the excavation investigation of Maenakanishi sites from July to middle of October. As a result of
the investigation, we found the mark in the river and the mark in the stake and the ditch that queued up in thestraight line, etc. Moreover, the farming tool of the wood product wasexcavated with a large amount of earthenware. It is thought that the markin the found ditch was a millrace that sustains the farmland as theproduction base in the village. These are guessed to be the one at about thelatter term of the Kofun period (seven-six centuries).
And, we held the excursion to sites intended for the local elementary
school in September. And, Afghan archeologists who took training in Japanvisited the site. They learnt the site of the excavation.
Excavated article

Time slipped to Yayoi Era
We held ancient experience event "Time slipped to Yayoi Era" in the Kamino districton November 13. In the event, The pit house of reproduced Yayoi Era was generally
open to the public in Maenakanishi sites, and the Yayoi earthenware and the stone
implement excavated were exhibited.
pit house
Serials Protection activity of buried cultural properties
Chapter5 About the excavation investigation report bookThe excavation investigation report book contains an important meaning for protecting the buried culturalproperty. The report explains a historical meaning of excavated sites. The excavation investigation is completed
by appropriate publication of this report.

Reports
Haiku introductory lectures
We held the haiku introductory lecture five times from September 16th toNovember 4th in Seikeiryo that existed in Seikeien; designated cultural property ofcity (place of scenic beauty) This course has been managed by the outline that manypeople learn Seikeien more through the traditional culture of haiku, and This event
becomes the fourth holding.
The display that explained the Ryuenji- Temple’s cultural property was set up.
We set up the display to guide the designated cultural property to this Ryusen temple in thebeginning of November. The display explains "Grave of Seiko Okuhara", "Mr. Narita's grave", and"Temple bell".

Heritage Pilgrimage
Negishi-family’s terrace house gate (Negishike-Nagayamon) Completion of repairer works“Negishi-family’s terrace house gate (Negishike-Nagayamon)" where is the city
specification cultural property building completed the repairer works in November,and faced the completion ceremony in December. The purpose of this repair was torestore the distorted roof, and to have prevented the leak in the roof.

Cultural Properties Column
Encounter with ancient times 5―Yoroizuka Tomb
This column introduces the excavation investigation of the Yoroizuka tomb as theJapanese keyhole-shaped tomb. The shape of this old tomb is called a scallop type.

FeatureThe Nishi Beppu sites group
The Nishi Beppu sites group is in the west of Kumagaya City. This name is a generic name of three sites of theNishi Beppu sites, the Nishi Beppu dilapidated temple, and the Nishi Beppu festa sites that exist in theboundary with Fukaya City. They are important sites with Hara sites in Fukaya City that is the mark in an
ancient county public office.
December 20, 2010 Kumagaya Cultural Properties Information NO.5 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