The Contry Farmhouse of Konnos

Back side of 「TOHOKU HISTORY MUSEUM」, there is a exhibition hall, called 「The Contry Farmhouse of Konnos」.

It was originally located Kitakami, Ishinomaki City, in Miyagi prefecture.
Konno served as Kimoiri, a chief of the village form generation to generation。

Main Building is the oldest building in the mansion.
Barn was used for stable and storeroom.
Main Building and Barn are defined as Tangible Cultural Property by Japanese government.

Description of 「The Contry Farmhouse of Konnos」

It was donated to TOHOKU HISTORY MUSEUM by Kitakami, Ishinomaki City, in Miyagi prefecture.
It is useful for study the folklore.

Bran

Threshing machine(left), Pestle(right)

Bathroom

During that time, few families can wash in their own houses. many families went to the public bath to wash.

Toilet

The toilet was outside of the house.

Stable

Many of horses was fed in there.

Main Building

This is the Main Building!

Hearth

Could be cooking in there.
After dinner, the families was around the hearth to chitchat.

wooden container for cooked rice

In those days, with no electric rice cookers with a keep-warm function and no microwave ovens, cooked rice was stored in a wooden cooked-rice container, to which cooked rice was usually transferred before being eaten, and it got cold.