Welcome to Jokyo Gimin Memorial Museum

Welcome to the　Jokyo[1] Gimin[2] Memorial　Museum

（Jokyo Gimin Memorial Museum)

Address

• 3209 Misato Meisei, Azumino city, Nagano , 399-8101Japan
• Tel   0263-77-7550
• Fax  0263-77-7551
• URL   http://www.city.azumino.nagano.jp/site/gimin/ 

Open

• 9時00分 a.m. to 5時00分 p.m. (enter by 4時30分 p.m.)
• Closed every Monday (if the day is a national holiday, the following day is closed),
  also between 28th of December and 4th of January.

Admission

• Free for Jhs students or younger, Azumino citizens aged 70 and older, persons with disability and one carer.

※Please show proof of age, residence, or disability.

Description

 In 1686, Kasuke and his sympathizers banded together to save Azumino farmers from the suffering of heavy taxes.This is Jokyo Ikki[3] (rebellion).
 
 The Jokyo Gimin Memorial Museum was built in 1992 to convey their struggle to the modern age.

 We display historical materials such as old documents,  the statue of Kasuke, Wakizashi (a short sword) of Kasuke, and so on.
 We also screen “Jokyo Gimin Monogatari (the story of Jokyo Gimin)” by our own stereoscopic projector.
 

“Shimpu Toki ” : an old book where the whole story of Jokyo rebellion is recorded
 

Kasuke statue


Wakizashi of Kasuke
 

Floor guide

[1] the Jokyo era (1684-1688), during the Edo period.

[2] martyr, in the non-religious sense ; a person who sacrifices his life for a cause.

[3] Act of trying to achieve goals by acting together by people with the same purposes.
         Nomin-ikki  means a farmers rebellion in which the farmers rebelled against the loads collectively.