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Miasa village: Tools
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See also: Old prints about hemp farming
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See also: Miasa village (Nagano prefecture)
See also: Hemp in Gunma prefecture
See also: Hemp and sumo
See also: Asa no ha
See also: Other hemp images

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See also: The "Hemp in Japan" Library
See also: Miasa village, Hemp cultivation, Hemp museum, Building with Hemp

Hemp tools in Miasa village

Many thanks to Anjuna Trance World for providing us with these photographs from museums in Miasa mura.


Asakiri: Used to separate 
the fibres from the stalk.
Asakiri: Used to separate
the fibres from the stalk.
Asakiri: Used to separate 
the fibres from the stalk.
Kobakiri: Sickle used to 
remove leaves from stalks
Kobakiri: Sickle used to remove leaves from stalks
Kanakushi: An iron comb 
used to brush the fibre.
Kanakushi: An iron comb used to brush the fibre.
kine.jpg
Kine: A pestle


ogama.jpg
Ogama is an iron tub in which hemp stalks were boiled.

Oshigama: Used to cut roots off hemp stalks.
Oshigama: Used to cut roots off hemp stalks.


Machine for spinning hemp thread 
used for sewing tatami.

Tatami ito seizouki:
A machine to make the
string for tatami floors.

bundle.jpg

Press for hemp bundles

itoguruma.jpg

Itoguruma:
Spinning wheel for hemp yarn

Nawanaiki: machine 
for making hemp rope
Nawanaiki: machine
for making hemp rope

See also:
See also: Miasa village, Hemp cultivation, Hemp museum, Building with Hemp


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