Literature, Art & Music

Gifu has a street and the name is Yanagase（柳ヶ瀬）
About 50 years ago, Yanagase was very big street.
Every day there is crowded and always bustled.

Famous singer Kenichi Mikawa was sung  Yanagase.
The song's name is "Blues of Yanagase" （柳ヶ瀬ブルース）
It is famous song.

about Gifu

Theme: Gifu

Word: City of mountain

Mt.kinka(金華山)

Logo&color: Green and White(These shows forest and snow)


2activities:

●We can enjoy winter sports very easy.
Gifu has many snow mountains and their accesses are very good.
Log house life is very fun.

Washigadake(鷲ヶ岳)

●We can enjoy nature.
Gifu has many greens. Forests, Mountains, and Fields.
Almost mountains can climb.
You may across some wild creatures and you can feel nature in the every part of the body

Forest of quiet（静寂の森）

Environmental Policy:

In my town, open-air burning is prohibited to protect nature and environment.
If we burning garbages, generating many Co2 and it will attack nature and wild creatures.

野焼き

festival and events

Takayama festival(spring:April 14th,15th   fall October 9th,10th)

Ideyu festival(August)

Hida Nyukawa festival(novenber)

local industry

Takayama city's local industries is making furniture,agriculture and farming.
The furniture made in Takayama is made by Hida sugi.
Takayama's furnitures are handmade so it is good and little expensive.
Takayama's farmers breeding Hidagyu. Hidagyu is very delicious.

History

Details don't turn out that when people began to live in Shirakawago.
When middle of Edo era, Sericultural industry  became active.
People want to get space to the industry in their house, so they were built Gasshouzukuri.

Gasshouzukuri's roof's Longevity is 30 years from roughly 50 years.
When changing roof, people in the village cooperate, the role is allotted and it works jointly.
It is called "Yui".

Name

Than before, this Shogawa valley in the Hida was called Shirakawago,
 and the upper reaches of a river that was called the lower part of a river side that was called
Shimosirakawago among those a Shirakawamura and the above Shirakawago become a Shokawamura

General description

I'd like to introducing about Shirakawago.
Shirakawago is in the Hida Shirakawamura Gifu prefecture Japan.
Area size is 356.55 km/2 and there is surroundede many mountains.
Shirakawago's population is 1,864.A few people lives in there.
A lot of snows get off in Shirakawago.Sometimes the snow crushes the building.