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Episode Details: Mishima, Fukushima: Keeping Alive the Folk Craft Tradition
Mishima, Fukushima: Keeping Alive the Folk Craft Tradition
Series: Journeys in Japan
Season: Season 11
Episode Number: 5
Air Date:
Duration: 28 min
Mishima Town, in western Fukushima Prefecture, receives some of the heaviest snowfall in all of Japan. During the winter, when the local people are unable to work in their fields, they spend their days making traditional handicrafts, using vines, leaves and bark from plants that grow wild on the nearby mountainsides. It's a folk tradition that continues to this day. Leina Bambino is an English instructor from the United States. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, she visits Mishima to meet the people living there, and sees how they keep their traditions alive. She also joins in a New Year ceremony that's been held in this area for over 200 years.
Cast and Guests
Bill Sullivan
Self - Narrator (voice)
Leina Bambino
Self - Presenter