Kurashiki
Kurashiki-shi 倉 敷 市 |
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Geographical location in Japan | ||
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Region : | Chūgoku | |
Prefecture : | Okayama | |
Coordinates : | 34 ° 35 ' N , 133 ° 46' E | |
Basic data | ||
Surface: | 355.63 km² | |
Residents : | 475,843 (October 1, 2019) |
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Population density : | 1338 inhabitants per km² | |
Community key : | 33202-0 | |
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Flag / coat of arms: | ||
Tree : | Camphor tree | |
Flower : | Japanese wisteria | |
Bird : | kingfisher | |
town hall | ||
Address : |
Kurashiki City Hall 640 Nishinakashinden Kurashiki -shi Okayama 710-0833 |
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Website URL: | http://www.city.kurashiki.okayama.jp/ | |
Location of Kurashikis in Okayama Prefecture | ||
Kurashiki ( Japanese 倉 敷 市 , -shi ) is a city in Okayama Prefecture and the former Bitchū Province on Honshū , the main island of Japan .
Kurashiki is a trading town from the Edo period . The name means something like "village of warehouses". Dozens of buildings ( Kura ) are still preserved, which are a symbol of the city due to their typical facades.
Attractions
The Kurabo company, which was founded in 1888 as a spinning mill under the name "Kurashiki Bōsekisho" ( 倉 敷 紡 績 所 ), became important for the development of the city . The first president was Ōhara Kōshirō (1833-1910), who built one of the most modern spinning mills of the time in 1889, at the place where the Kurashiki shogunate administration had its seat before.
The Kurabo Memorial Hall was established in 1969 as one of the projects to mark the eightieth anniversary of its founding in July. For this purpose, the factory site was converted into what is now known as "Ivory Square". The cotton warehouse was converted into a memorial hall. There, the development of the company up to the present day is shown in various rooms using objects and display boards.
Even more important is the Ōhara art museum , which Ōhara's son Magosaburō (1880–1943) founded. Works of western classical modernism ( Matisse , Renoir , Degas , Gauguin , Picasso, etc.), but also Japanese modernity ( Fujishima Takeji , Munakata Shikō, etc.) are shown there.
The Kurashiki Folk Art Museum has exhibits of folk art, while the Japan Rural Toy Museum shows old toys from Japan, but also from other parts of the world. The Kurashiki Ninagawa Museum showed 2,000 works of ancient European- Mediterranean art until its closure . In 2003 the Kake Museum for Japanese and European Painting opened in the building.
traffic
- Street:
- San'yō Highway
- National road 2 : to Osaka and Kitakyushu
- National roads 429, 430, 486
- Train:
- JR San'yō-Shinkansen : Shin-Kurashiki Station, to Tokyo and Hakata
- JR San'yō Main Line : to Kobe and Kitakyūshū
- JR Uno line
- JR Honshibisan Line
- JR Hakubi Line
Town twinning
Kurashiki has twinned cities with Sankt Pölten, Austria (since 1957), with Kansas City in the USA since 1972 and with Christchurch in New Zealand since 1973 .
economy
Today spinning mills, the building materials industry, the chemical industry and the smelting of iron ore are economically important .
sons and daughters of the town
- Ahn Young-hak (* 1978), football player
- Erika Araki (* 1984), volleyball player
- Sen'ichi Hoshino (1947-2018), baseball manager and former pitcher
- Hiroki Kōsai (* 1933), astronomer
- Kibi Makibi , Confucian philosopher
- Kazutoshi Mori (* 1958), biophysicist
- Hiroki Narabayashi (* 1988), football player
- Jin'yū Nasu (* 1999), football player
- Ri Han-jae (* 1982), soccer player
- Daisuke Takahashi (* 1986), figure skater
- Jōichirō Tatsuyoshi (* 1970), boxer
- Kōzō Uno (1897–1977), economist
- Yamakawa Hitoshi (1880-1958), intellectual
- Yukari Miyake (* 1986), singer