Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama_2015
The Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama.
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms. The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only examples of their kind in Japan. Despite economic upheavals, the villages of Ogimachi, Ainokura and Suganuma are outstanding examples of a traditional way of life perfectly adapted to the environment and people's social and economic circumstances.
Houses built in the gassho style are defined as having a roof in the shape of a triangle, similar to hands folded in prayer. In the multilayer structure, the 3rd and 4th floors are particularly characteristic as they demonstrate the wisdom of the farmers who are able to raise silkworms even in the harsh winters. The area for the silkworms is up in the attic where the heat from the first floor, filled with people and activity, rises up. The roof has an impressive slope of 60° to allow the heavy snow (sometimes as much as 4 meters) to slide off more easily.
1ST stop_ Ainokura Village where 24 houses stand against a background of mountains.
2nd stop_Kaminashi where we viewed the 400 year old Murakami House. Bought the sasara instrument and a lion dance in spring.
Lastly Ogimachi__Visited Wada House, the largest house in this village.
Trudged uphill to the viewing area for a postcard shot of Shirakawa-go Ogimachi village where 59 houses are clustered. This upland vantage point is perfect for a panoramic view of the Gassho-style village in the verdure of spring.
World Heritage Site Shirakawago Gassho-zukuri Houses
The historic village of Shirakawago Gassho-zukuri(“prayer-hands construction) houses are located in the north-western part of Gifu prefecture. There are still old traditions remaining and people leading a fairly normal life today. Shirakawago's Gassho-zukuri houses were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. You can understand the Japanese traditions and the wisdom of integrated life with nature at outdoor heritage museum and attractions. Surrounded by organic nature, Shirakawago is the hometown of Japanese soul which will remind you of the origin of Japan. It captures the wisdom and nature-life techniques by the people who live there. Gassho-zukuri is very unique and cannot be found in other places.
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Gifu Prefecture’s Shirakawa Village is located in the approximate center of the Japanese archipelago. In 1995, this small village, surrounded by mountains, achieved global recognition when it became a registered UNESCO World Heritage Site. The primary subject of this status is the gassho style residences and the lifestyles lived within them. People once again considered the wisdom of a culture of communal living, for survival in a harsh natural environment.
Gassho (praying hands) style houses were thus named because the shape of the large thatched roofs resembles the shape formed by people’s hands when offering prayers to the gods. No nails are used in their construction. The joints between timbers are secured only with ropes and vines, but have proven strong enough to endure hundreds of years of winds and snowfall. Just like the gassho style houses, the villagers themselves live hand in hand, bound together by the strong culture and enduring lifestyle.
Here, various aspects of life that the Japanese hold dear to their hearts are bound up together, and an irreplaceable landscape remains to this day.
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World Heritage: Shirakawa Village
Historic villages of Shirakawa Villages
Located deep in the mountains of northern Gifu and Toyama prefectures, the Shirakawa-go and Gokayama districts were cut off from the rest of Japanese society because of their extremely isolated location in remote mountain valleys, and as such developed a very unique culture and lifestyle different from any other area of Japan.
The farmhouses were built 200 to 300 years ago to suit the environment in Shirakawa. The steep angle of the roof prevents excessive build-up of snow in the winter, while the direction of the structures aid in keeping the rooms cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The village, which was designated a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site in 1995, is still an active community and many of the farmhouses operates as Minshiku or inns accepting guests.
The houses in the villages in the valley are unique to Japan. They are very big, and have thick thatched roofs that come down steeply. This way the snow can slide off the roofs. There is also enough space under the roofs to store supplies for long winters. The inhabitants of these villages used to earn their money in the silk-industry. They lived a very secluded life.
The Shirakawago area has more than 100 gassho-style houses with about 600 people in 150 households living in the area. There are many souvenir shops in the area, and it has become a significant tourist spot. There are many museums to visit and many facilities to experience traditional industrial arts like dying and weaving amidst the scene of rich seasonal coloring. Shirakawago is similar to Hida No Sato in that there are a collection of authentic traditional buildings, but the difference is that they're all lived in and the whole place is a combination of working village and tourist attraction.
Shirakawa Village World Heritage Shirakawa-go, Japan - 4K!!
May 2016 video tour of Shirakawa-go Village, featuring traditional gasshō-zukuri style houses. Special thanks to our guide Yamamoto-san with iSite Takayama tours, visit isitetakayama.com for more information. Thank you for checking out my video! Filmed in 4K with Panasonic G7 and RØDE Stereo VideoMic Pro.
Gassho-Zukuri thatched-roof houses of Shirakawa, Japan
Autumn leaves in World Heritage Site Shirakawago Gassho-zukuri Houses
Shirakawago is a “Gassho-zukuri”farmhouse village where there are still old traditions remaining and
people leading a fairly normal life today.
Shirakawago “Gassho-zukuri” houses were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
In Shirakawago, there are heritage museums and facilities where you can experience Japanese traditional culture.
Here, you can see some parts of wisdom of integrated life with nature. The Gassho-zukuri”is a village created by an environment surrounded by organic nature.
The wisdom and nature-life techniques of the people who live there. Shirakawago is the hometown of Japanese soul which will remind you of the origin of Japan.
Every year from late September to early November,you can enjoy the changing colors of autumn leaves.Rice field tinged in gold and Japanese pampas grass swaying in the wind. Please visit this place to see and feel the beauty of Japanese autumn.
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Gassho Zukuri Minka-en Shirakawa-go 合掌造り民家園
The Gassho Zukuri Minka-en or Gassho-zukuri Folklore Park is a collection of historic gassho (praying hands) buildings from the Shirakawa-go area in Gifu and Toyama prefectures. This conservation area preserves over 25 thatched buildings in traditional style within lovely natural surroundings.
Gassho-style houses in Gokayama Japan
With more than twenty well-preserved Gasshouzukuri buildings, Ainokura is a piece of living history
YOKOSO Japan Tour -- World Heritage Site Shirakawago Gassho zukuri Houses in fall (世界遺產 白川鄉) - E27
Late Sep to Middle Nov is the season for Autumn leaves in World Heritage Site, Shirakawago. Combination of Gasssho zukuri house and colored leaves is very nice photographic subject. WEBSITE
世界遺産・岐阜・白川郷集落訪問⑦,World-herritage-site-Shirakawago,Gifu,Japan
前から是非とも来てみたかった場所である岐阜の白川郷の合掌作り。ここは日本の田舎ののどかな風景が広がっている。合掌造りの家は３階～4階建てで大きな家である。庭には鯉のぼりが飾られていたり、地元の子供たちが遊ぶ姿、池にはコイがおり、サクラも咲いている。遠くを見渡せば山々の景色が広がり、自分も含め多くの日本人が忘れてしまった日本の伝統文化がここには残っている。白川郷（しらかわごう）は、岐阜県内の庄川流域の呼称である。大野郡白川村と高山市荘川町（旧荘川村）および高山市清見町（旧清見村）の一部に相当し、白川村を「下白川郷」、他を「上白川郷」と呼ぶ。今日では白川村のみを指すことが多い。白川郷の荻町地区は合掌造りの集落で知られる。独特の景観をなす集落が評価され、1976年重要伝統的建造物群保存地区として選定、1995年には五箇山（相倉地区、菅沼地区）と共に白川郷・五箇山の合掌造り集落として、ユネスコの世界遺産（文化遺産）に登録された[1]。「世界遺産白川郷合掌造り保存財団」などがその保存にあたっている。毎年2月頃の週末には夜間ライトアップが行われる。Making joining the palms together of Shirakawago of Gifu which is a place to come to very much from before. The peaceful scenery of the country in Japan has spread and it is here. A house with a steep rafter roof is a big house at the third floor 4 stories. yard being alike -- the carp streamer is decorated, or a carp is in the figure and pond where local children play, and the cherry tree is also in bloom. Overlook a long distance, the scene of should spread, and many Japanese also including themselves need to forget? The kept Japanese traditional culture remains here. Shirakawago is the name of the Shogawa valley in Gifu. It is equivalent to some of size Shirakawa-mura, Shokawa-cho (old Shokawa-mura), Takayama, and Takayama Kiyomi ? towns (old Kiyomi-mura), and calls Shirakawa-mura upper Shirakawago for lower Shirakawago, etc. Nowadays, only Shirakawa-mura is pointed out often. The Ogi-cho area of Shirakawago is known in a colony with a steep rafter roof. which the colony which makes a peculiar scene was evaluated and was registered into the world heritage (cultural heritage) of UNESCO with Gokayama (a Kurachi division, the Suganuma area) as an important [ in 1976 ] traditional ? building group preservation area in selection and 1995 as the style-featuring-a-steep-rafter-roof colony ? in 白川郷 and Gokayama. The world heritage Shirakawa preservation foundation etc. has hit the is performed at night every year during the weekend around February.
YOKOSO Japan Tour -- The World Heritage Site “Gokayama Gassho style Village” (五箇山) --E28
Gokayama village is a World Heritage Site and its Gassho style houses are very well known in Japan. It has more calm and with unexplored atmosphere than Shirakawago. WEBSITE
-YOKOSO Japan Tour -- Winter of Shirakawago Gassho zukuri Houses (冬季的白川鄉合掌造集落) -- E24
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Shirakawago is a Gassho-zukuri farmhouse village with old traditions and people leading a fairly normal life today. It is also known as heavy snow area. WEBSITE :
The World Heritage Ainokura Gassho-zukuri Village
A quiet traditional village with 20 gassho-style houses built 100-400 years ago. This video was taken from the village center where the monument to the protected national historic site is located.
Virtual Trip To Gero Onsen Gassho Village in Gifu Prefecture,Japan
Gero Onsen Gassho Village comprises 10 thatched A-frame long-houses from the UNESCO World Heritage site of nearby Shirakawa-go that have been re-assembled on the hill top site just outside Gero.
Some of the buildings were thus saved from destruction when a new dam in the Shirakawa-go area would have flooded them.
Of the 10 historic buildings the large Historic Odo House (kyu Odo-ke) is registered as an Important Cultural Property and shows how life was lived in a typical Gassho-style house using mannequins and models. On display are original agricultural tools and machinery used in silk production.
Another Gassho house, now named the Shirasagi Theater, has been converted into a theater and puts on a variety of different performances during the year. The Iwasaki House holds a collection of folk crafts.
Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farm House 1 -Shirakawa-go-
Located in a huge park named Hattori Ryokuchi Park, this open-air museum preserves about 15 of real Japanese old houses. This one was built in the mid-19th century and recently transferred from a historic village called Shirakawa-goin Gifu Prefecture, where people still live in this this kind of house. Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, another place you can find a village with this type of thatched houses, are designated as World Heritage.
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Inside a Gassho-zukuri house_ the WADA house. 2015
At the ground floor is the irori hearth.
Those times a fire was kept constantly burning in the hearth, which was where the cooking was done and the family would gather to eat. No chimneys were built into the houses, and so smoke from the fire simply rises through the rafters to the roof. There, it deposits a layer of soot, which helps preserve the rafters and also keeps down the number of insects and other small creatures that would damage the thatch covering the gassho-zukuri roofs.
It was, however, for the benefit of one particular insect that the gassho-zukuri developed into such large structures. The top two or three floors of the building were used for raising silkworms in what was once a major local industry. The gassho-zukuri roofs allowed large window openings to be built, and these gave the silkworms sufficient light and ventilation. Except along the walls, no pillars were used in the gassho-zukuri construction, thereby opening up a sizable working area. And this space was given over to the large trays on which the silkworms were kept, voraciously munching their way through the piles of mulberry leaves.
Wada-ke House.
The Wada family was one of the wealthiest families and village leaders of Ogimachi. Their former home is the largest gassho-zukuri farmhouse inOgimachi, and is now open to the public as a museum.
Ogimachi is the largest village and main attraction of Shirakawa-go. Declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1995, the village is home to several dozen well preserved gassho-zukuri farmhouses, some of which are more than 250 years old.
Shirakawa-Go Drone Footage Japan 4K 白 川 郷
Shirakawa-Go Drone Footage Japan 4K
Shirakawa-gō (白川郷), formally Shirakawa-mura (白川村), is a historic village in Gifu. Together with Gokayama in Toyama, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on December 9, 1995.
The village is famous for its farmhouses, which are built in a unique architectural style known as gasshō (合掌). The name means hands together as in prayer, referring to the steep roofs that keep the snow off in the winter. Underneath the roofs, the large attic area was used to house silkworms.
Another feature which has brought fame to the village is the recent Japanese game series 'Higurashi no Naku Koro ni' (2002) and the anime series that followed. Although the village residents are not too altogether thrilled that an anime series depicting large levels of violence has based itself on their village, it has brought the tourists none-the-less. A number of locations from the anime series can be visited in Shirakawa; the most prevalent site being the Hachiman Shrine, the site where the shrine maiden Rika Furude met an unfortunate end and also the major shrine of the village.
JAPAN Gero Onsen Gassho Village (Gassho Mura)
At Gero Onsen Gassho-mura, 10 gassho-zukuri (thatched) houses have been transferred from places like Shirakawa-go to form a precious outdoor museum which recreates a mountain settlement from former times, and offers a glimpse into what life might have been like for its inhabitants. Among the structures transferred is the Odo House, a nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property.
The village is also home to the Iwasaki House (a folk museum) and the Toyama House with Itakura storehouse. Both of these nationally registered Tangible Cultural Properties are open to the public.
Other attractions include workshops where you can try your hand at making ceramic art, patterned washi (Japanese paper) and other traditional crafts, a restaurant where you can savor the flavors of Hida, and Saijiki no Mori, a forest of Japanese cherry blossom and maple trees on a hill overlooking the village. Gassho-mura is a warm and friendly village with a heart, where the simple spirit of the people of Hida lives on.
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