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Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 25How Much Is One Koku? Chibanosuke Guide 1.8-Liter Sake Bottle (Isshōbin) What’s a “koku,” anyway? 'Tis a unit for measuring rice. Wait, they even used rice to describe the size of domains and villages? That’s kind of wild. Indeed. For people back then, measuring things in rice was familiar and easy to grasp. D’you know those 1.8-liter sake bottles? One koku equals 180 liters—that’s 100 of those sake bottles!

Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 26An Ilustration of Hirakawa Village Chibanosuke Guide An Ilustration of Hirakawa Village(Full View) An Illustration of Hirakawa Village (Close-up of Houses) It’s so colorful! What do the different colors mean? Each color shows land controlled by a different lord. Even the houses are colored differently. Aye, the houses were divided up by which lord they belonged to as well.

Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 27Visible Differences in Social Class: Samurai and Peasants Chibanosuke Guide Permit for Surname and Sword-carrying issued by the lord(Full view) Permit for Surname and Sword-Carrying （Close-up of the lord's officials and Shichinosuke） What does this document say? It says that the village head, Shichinosuke, was granted permission by a domain official to take on a family name and carry a sword. So... does that mean he became a samurai? Nay, nay. He remained a peasant in daily life. The family name and sword were only allowed when serving the lord in

also the Sakura Pasture, and in Awa Province, the Mineoka Pasture. So Chiba had lots of pastures! Were there government pastures like this all over Japan? Nay—other than those, only the Ashitaka Pasture in today’s Shizuoka Prefecture existed. The shogunate’s pastures were mostly concentrated in what is now Chiba Prefecture.

’t Changed Since the Edo Period Chibanosuke Guide The Five Edict Boards Notice Board Depicted in the Illustration of Hirakawa Village This is a wooden notice board that listed rules for the whole village to follow. It was usually put up in the village center. What kind of rules were written on it? During the Edo period, the shogunate had boards like this posted with orders such as: be filial to your parents, don’t leave the village without permission, and don’t practice Christianity. Did they take it down when the Meiji era started? Actually, they put up

Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 36Balloons… That Were Bombs!? Chibanosuke Guide What’s a “balloon bomb”? Toward the end of the war, the army developed a weapon that attached bombs to balloons about 10 meters in diameter. They released them into the jet stream to send them across the Pacific to attack America. It was created by the Army's Technical Research Institute and launched by the Army Balloon Regiment. They launched about 9,000 of them from three coastal areas—along the Pacific in Ibaraki, Fukushima, and Chiba. Nearly 1,000 made it all the way to the U.S.,

Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 38A "Jichi Shūkai" Where Anything Goes!? Chibanosuke Guide What kind of gathering was a jichi shūkai? According to records, it was a student-run assembly where children planned and carried out all sorts of activities—writing essays and poems, singing, dancing, reading, studying on their own, holding discussions and meetings… you name it, they did it! Wow, to think they were doing that back in the Taishō period! Education in Chiba City was really ahead of its time.

the countryside ─ was given priority over organized group evacuation through schools("shudan sokai", 集団 疎開). But around one-third of school children couldn’t evacuate at all, whether due to poor health, lack of resources, or needing to help with family work. It really makes you think… What was the purpose of evacuation of school children?

いくことをめざして。 2021年、千の葉の芸術祭が誕生します。 “There’s nothing special about Chiba City.” We hear this a lot. But is this really true? Every town has something unique to appeal. What we need to do, is to give ourselves the chance to recognize what’s attractive. What if we are able to look around through the unique and sensitive perspective of an artist. This will lead us to various discoveries, and things will start looking very different. When we encounter new perspectives

DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS, PREDATING THE REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY, FIXES THE IMAGES TO MIRROR-LIKE SURFACES. THE VIEWER IS REFLECTED IN EACH OF THESE, GIVING THE IMPRESSION THAT HE OR SHE HAS ENTERED THEM. WITH THE EXHIBITION HAVING TO BE POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19, IT NOW GOES AHEAD IN WHAT IS THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE, AND ARAI HAS CAPTURED THE PRESENT EASTERN COASTAL REGION, WITH QUAKE-AFFECTED CHIBA AS HIS STARTING POINT, DEPICTING THE LINK BETWEEN TIME AND SPACE. Takashi Arai A multiple monument for Lucky Dragon 5 From the series of EXPOSED