Photoblog: Deko Yashiki Village Folk Crafts

Posted on by Rediscover Fukushima

I visited Deko Yashiki for the first time ever yesterday. I don’t know why it has taken so long for me to go!

Deko Yashiki is a collection of 4 houses (and families) who have been making local crafts for hundreds of years.

You can visit their workshops, learn about folk legends and beliefs, and try out painting your own Miharu Koma horse - the craft that made the area famous.

I’ll write about this amazing place in more detail next week, but for the meantime, please enjoy some of the photos I took there!

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8 thoughts on “Photoblog: Deko Yashiki Village Folk Crafts”

  2. Thank you for sharing your experiences and those wonderful photos! One day, I will make the trip to Japan to see for myself.

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    1. Hi Nikita, thank you for your comment! Yes you’re right, 民 means people, or “folk”. So when it is written as part of this compound “民芸品” it means “folk crafts”.

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