Kurohonekominkan - Rekishiminzoku Museum - Kiryu

There is currently no staff present Please go to the public hall on the right, there are staff here, talk and have them open !! There are folk materials and literature in the mountainous area.

Behind the museum, you can see the Hoshino family's nagayamon. There was a Mizunuma silk mill in this house. The Hoshino family was a wealthy farmer who has served as a village official for generations. Born in this house just before the Meiji Restoration, Chotaro was enterprising and opened Mizunuma Elementary School on the north side of his residence at his own expense. I thought that education was more important than anything else from now on. This elementary school was set up second in Gunma prefecture, so it was called "Gunma prefecture second school". In addition, Chotaro thought that "to promote national interests, it is necessary to train a modern silk reeling industry," and learned from the Maebashi Domain Owatari Western-style silk reeling factory, and opened the Mizunuma silk reeling factory on the site of his own residence. did. Chotaro was not just a profitable manager, but accepted engineers from all over the country who wanted training and made them generously acquire the skills. Not only that, it is said that a night school for engineers was built in the factory. Later, Chotaro sent his younger brother Ryoichiro Arai to the United States to open a sales channel for raw yarn in the United States. It is also introduced in the museum that Ryoichiro's granddaughter Haru became the wife of Reischauer's Ambassador to Japan. In Maebashi Park, there are statues of Chotaro Hoshino, Ryoichiro Arai, Motohiko Katori, the first prefectural ordinance of Gunma Prefecture, and his wife, Hisa, who reproduced a scene from the taiga drama "Hana Moyu". There is. This is a scene in which Ryoichiro, who travels to the United States, is handed a sword of keepsake in order to make his brother Shoin Yoshida travel unfulfilled. Chotaro Hoshino does not appear in textbooks, but I think he is a great person to make, rather than a politician who left a flashy achievement (^ _ ^) v Also, the place name Kurohone is very different, but it is probably taken from "Kuji Honosuke" in the Manyoshu. Yasunori Kuji is the old name of Mt. Akagi, and it is said that it is a mine covered with black clouds that calls for the lightning that is a specialty of Joshu. For the ancients, thunderclouds were scary and at the same time thankful for the rain of grace (^ _ ^ ゞ)