In this village, life-sized scarecrows outnumber human residents 10 to 1
On the surface, Nagoro is like any other sleepy riverside village in southern Japan's remote Iya Valley.
Times have definitely changed for Nagoro, similar to the plight of other Japanese villages with aging populations. Soon after making the first few scarecrows for practical farmland purposes in 2003, she created one in the likeness of a late neighbor she used to talk with every day, so that she could"speak" to her like old times.
What would have been an abandoned building is now an unofficial"museum" of students, teachers, parents and imaginary figures. There's a classroom of 12 or so attentive, wide-eyed pupils at their desks as the teacher delivers a lesson.Setouchi Tourism It's here where she reveals the materials used: wooden slabs for the base, cotton clumps for the head, elastic fabric for the skin, buttons for the eyes, wires and around 80 rolled newspaper pages for each doll's"skeleton".There's also the annual Scarecrow Festival, a foreigner favorite which happens every first Sunday of October.
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