Hokuto City Hometown Museum (北斗市郷土資料館, Hokuto-shi Kyōdo Shiryōkan) is a museum of local history in Hokuto, Hokkaidō, Japan that came into being after the city's formation in 2006. The museum is successor to the former Ōno Town Historical Museum (大野町郷土資料館), which had a collection of some five thousand items with a focus on agriculture, as Ōno is where rice-farming was brought to Hokkaidō.[2] The collection of Hokuto City Hometown Museum includes artefacts from Yafurai-date that have been designated a Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property.[3][4]
| Hokuto City Hometown Museum | |
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北斗市郷土資料館 | |
 The museum is located on the second floor of Hokuto City Hall General Branch Office[1] | |
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| General information | |
| Address | 1-1-1 Hon-chō |
| Town or city | Hokuto, Hokkaidō |
| Country | Japan |
| Coordinates | 41°53′01″N 140°38′38″E / 41.883523°N 140.643918°E |
| Opened | 2006 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
In 2019, the museum held an exhibition of finds from the ninety or so Jōmon-period sites identified to date in Hokuto, including the Moheji Site:[5] a spouted earthenware vessel with a figured design excavated at Moheji (茂辺地), together with fragments of a number of other vessels decorated with figures of human and non-human animals, has been designated an Important Cultural Property and is now in the collection of Tokyo National Museum.[6]
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References edit
- ^ 郷土資料館（総合分庁舎２階） [Hometown Museum (Floor 2, General Branch Office)] (in Japanese). Hokuto City. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ 北斗市郷土資料館 [Hokuto City Hometown Museum] (in Japanese). Hokkaido Prefecture. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ 平成２８年報度 北海道文化財年報 [2016 Annual Report: Report on the Cultural Properties of Hokkaido] (PDF) (in Japanese). Hokkaido Prefectural Board of Education. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ 矢不来館跡出土品 [Excavated Artefacts from Yafurai-date Castle] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ 郷土資料館 第9回特別展「北斗市縄文展」 [Hometown Museum 9th Special Exhibition "Hokuto City Jōmon Exhibition"] (in Japanese). Hokuto City. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ 人形装飾付異形注口土器 [Spouted earthenware with human figure design] (in Japanese and English). National Institutes for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
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- (in Japanese) Hokuto City Hometown Museum
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