Takuboku father and son monument

Yaoji Hashimoto

A painter from Shiwa Town. Graduated from Tokyo Fine Arts University, Department of Western Painting. His 300th masterpiece, ``Change Time'', was exhibited and selected as a special selection at the Teiten Exhibition in 1930, and it continued to be selected as a special selection and recommendation. After the war, he entered politics and served as chairman of the prefectural assembly. After finishing his time as a member of the Diet in 1960, he moved to Europe as a painter and held an exhibition after returning to Japan. In 1975, he founded the Hashimoto Museum of Art in Iwayama, Morioka City, where he exhibited a number of works, including works by himself and friends, works by the Barbizon school, and folk art. (The museum closed in 2001.)

Homespun Michinoku Akanekai

You can see the homespun process, which is all done by hand, from dyeing to weaving, and a series of panels introduce the manufacturing process. Homespun, which was popularized in Iwate by British missionaries at the beginning of the Meiji period, is a woolen fabric made from dyed wool and woven from hand-spun thread. While mass production is often done by machines, Michinoku Akane-kai is particular about creating original handmade products, in which each warp and weft of spun wool is woven by hand.

Iwate University Museum

This building was used as a library during his time at Morioka High School of Agriculture and Forestry, and is also the site where Kenji Miyazawa absorbed knowledge such as biology, mineralogy, literature, and art while attending the school. Here, we will introduce research achievements that have contributed to the region, such as livestock disease water use and environmental measures (Faculty of Engineering) that the university has been working on over the past 100 years, as well as archaeological materials related to the Jomon period, Isawa Castle, Tokutan Castle, Shiba Castle, etc. Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Education), etc. are on display and open to the public (permanent exhibition room). In addition, the special exhibition room displays valuable materials owned by the university for a limited time.