What is Stone and Kenji museum? You can know the charm of mineral and history of Kenji Miyazawa!
Goodevening, I’m ryo!
Thank you for coming to my Blog.
There are a lot of wonderful places in Iwate.
I want many people to come to Iwate.
By the way, Do you know Kenji Miyazawa?
He is a famous novelist and fairy tale writer in Iwate. His masterpieces are ‘The Night of the Milky Way Train’ and ‘ Ame ni mo Makezu’ etc.
He loved stones since childfood, so Many minerals around the world are displayed at Stone and Kenji museum after him.
Today,I will introduce Stone and Kenji museum.
You can know the charm of mineral and history of Kenji Miyazawa!
- What is Stone and Kenji museum?
- The relations between Kenji Miyazawa and Higashiyama town
- Information of Stone and Kenji museum
- You can know the charm of mineral and history of Kenji Miyazawa!
What is Stone and Kenji museum?
Stone and Kenji museum is in Higashiyama, Ichinoseki city.
Many minerals are displayed at this museum after Kenji Miyazawa. And you can also see the factory where he worked as an engineer.
There are also materials, books and pictures about him, so you can know the history of him.
I recommend this museum to those who like him and minerals.
The relations between Kenji Miyazawa and Higashiyama town
In 1929, Tozo Suzuki who is a owner of Tohoku-saiseki-factory visited Kenji Miyazawa to hear management advice.
Because Tohoku-saiseki-factory produced lime stone powder to improve the soil in Higashiyama town, but management was deteriorating.
Kenji Miyazawa decided to cooperate with him.Then they Started to exchange letters with each other. In the spring of 1931, Kenji Miyazawa decided working at this factory because his physical condition improved.
He did sales activity in each place with a over 20kg bag containing materials. Meanwhile, he visited this factory 7 times.
However, he fainted due to an illness and went back home to recuperate, but he continued the exchange with the letter.
The Life of Budori Gusuko is fairy tale that he was working in this factory. And Ame ni mo Makezu was written in the notebook that it was found in the bag he used in salse.
There is a monument of Kenji Miyazawa built by local young people at Higashiyama town.
Higashiyama town is relevant for the latter half of his life.
Information of Stone and Kenji museum
| Adress | 149-1 Takinosawa, Matsukawa, Higashiyama town, Ichinoseki, Iwate |
| Business Hours | AM9:00 ~ PM5:00 |
| The closed day | Monday (the next day if it is a holiday) The day after a holiday the year-end and New Year holidays |
| Admission | 300yen for adult 200yen for high school and university students Free for junior high school, elementary school students |
| Access | 【By car】JR Ichinoseki station ~ Stone and Kenji museum(about 20min) 【By train】JR Ichinoseki station ~ JR Rikutyu-matsukawa station (JR ofunato line about 30min) |
| Web page | https://translate.google.co.jp/translate?hl=ja&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.city.ichinoseki.iwate.jp%2F |
You can know the charm of mineral and history of Kenji Miyazawa!
Kenji Miyazawa loved stones since childhood, so he was called ‘ Isikko-kensan’.
There are the minerals around the world, meteorites and ammonite fossil etc.
It’s Sanukite that It sounds like an instrument when you hit it.
Minerals have a own unique shine and mysterious charm. When you turn off the lights and Shine the black light on those, you can see the another color of a minerals. You may find your favorite mineral!
You can also watch the movie about Kenji Miyazawa and Tozo Suzuki. You can know more about them. And the materials of The Life of Budori Gusuko and history of Kenji Miyazawa are displayed.
The library called ‘Soshido library’ is in this museum. It has a lot of books about them.
Please come to Stone and Kenji museum!
You can know the charm of mineral and history of Kenji Miyazawa!
Higashiyama Ichinoseki Kenji Miyazawa mineral museum Stone and Kenji museum