Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41370

Type

conference item

Titre

The meaning of watching the snow shape of rabbit on the mountain side of Azuma-kofuji (just a snow, but it means something)

Langues

English

Auteurs

Akasaka, Makoto

Date

2008

Pages

10 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

mountains / setting / snow / spirit of place / visual impact / natural sites / oral tradition / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Japan

Monuments et sites

Azuma-kofuji, Japan

Résumé en anglais

There is a mountain named Azuma-kofuji (1,705m) with remained snow shape in Fukushima, Japan. The shape of the remained snow seems like a rabbit, which shows “Snow rabbit” at the time of snow melting yearly. In the region people used to have said, when the rabbit appeared on the mountain side of Azuma-kofuji, it’s a signal for sowing on the fields and the time of the hatching work of silkworms. Because of change to industrialization of filature works the traditional manufacture and the provincial custom vanished in the 1930s. But after the World War II the local newspaper took up the Snow rabbit and began to campaign for the reassessment of local culture and custom of the habitants. It was a stepping stone of reminiscence of the Snow rabbit. What is meaning today the viewing of the remained snow? We see and enjoy now the sign of spring like ancient people did so.

Document joint

77-6P2f-32.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)