Today our integrated japan language course class has a one day culture trip to Tanba Sasayama village. It took 1.5 hr from hankyu rokko station to go to tanba area by bus. Around 45 students join this trip from various country. The schedule is making pottery at tamba traditional art craft park, visiting Kobe University Sasayama Field Station, free time to explore Sasayama area, persimmon picking and watch dried persimmon making and last buy souvenirs at okashi no sato tamba.
TANBA
Tanba pottery is also named Tachikui Pottery beyond its origin place Tachikui at Heian period (1180-1230). It it counted as one of the ancient six potteries in Japan with Seto, Tokoname, Shigaraki, Bizen and Echizen. Tanba Tachikui Kiln is designated as a national intangible cultural asset. It consist mainly of tableware made for daily use, so you can purchase both dishes and artwork in one place.
Inspite of looking an exhibition pottery artworks, there is also pottery classroom where we can make our own original masterpieces from clay.
Everyone get one ball of clay to start with. Any dishes or shape you can make freely.
Because why not making myself new favourite bowl?!
This is so far our pottery result. It will take about 6 weeks for our item to be baked and sent back to us.
Tanba Traditional Arts and Crafts Garden, when the products is as beautiful as the surrounding view. Their works really touch a warmth sense of earth and people.
Until then we visit Sasayama Field Station to have lunch, well this field stastion generally builds for academic endeavour. And after that we get around 1 hr free time to explore Sasayama. University staffs prepare 3 plan which mainly for who like alcohol, who are interested in Japanese history and who are interested in local history. My group choose Japanese history sightseeing as it is said that it has beautiful scenery at both Sasayama Castle and Kasuga Shrine. And we can try Japanese sweets on the way to Romankan. Buit I doubt in 1 hr we can finished all. But anyway, let’s have fun!
SASAYAMA CASTLE
The Oshoin was the second enclosure of Sasayama Castle for 335 years until it was destroyed by fire in 1944. It has now been reconstructed.
In front of the Oshoin Entrance.
We can enjoy walking in the museum inside and you can see pieces of Japanese history.
We can enjoy take a walk through this passage of time and affected by this atmospheric old castle.
What a beautiful sky. The oshoin splendidly reconstructed within the ruins of sasayama castle, above 4 years they were spent on completing and especially constructing the roof of the museum. If you look closely you can see that every detail has been given consideration.
I’m enjoying the view and weather. 🙂
historical townscape is preserved and communicates the atmosphere of the castle to the present day.
It is not only Sasayama castle as vocal point of city but its supporting city small business attract visitors too!
KASUGA SHRINE
I’m tired hahaha
but we still have a persimmon (kaki picking) which I will put on second post..
see you later 🙂
all of trip members in front of Romankan Cafe
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