Matagi Shiryokan

The admission fee is only one hundred yen, so certainly useful to get a good feel of Matagi history.

We drove north from Kakunodate to Matagi country. Matagi is a reference to people that are professional hunters. Matagi areas are scattered in the mountains from Nagano, Niigata and the Tohoku region....

Bear hunting as a cultural belief, not as a prey

Original Text

A museum where you can learn the real appearance of "Matagi", which was hunting various mountain animals with bears as the top. The matagi felt respect and fear for the mountain gods, bears and animals, and the severity of life betting on each other's lives, not just as a product to sell animals ＆. Think about Was done. It is culture, and you can know the culture and history of the mountains as if you reached faith. And their lives and tools ...

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Original Text

The museum in the Matagi no Yu building was very interesting because I didn't know much. Mr. Yaguchi's Matagi was quite similar to what was written in the manga (you can read it by the side of the cafeteria), but it is very good with many exhibits.

I stayed.

Original Text

It is a museum attached to Uchito Onsen Matagi-no-Yu in Kitaakita City. It seems that there are still active matagi, but you can learn about old life. Thank you very much.

bears and humans.

Original Text

I wonder why I was born to humans, and if there were no humans in this world, I would probably think it was a bear world, and I thought so.