My new favorite tenugui
日本の４７都道府県はそれぞれの県歌がある中、長野県の「信濃の国」が一番親しまれたと言われています。なお、その歌が本になりました。本と言うか、手ぬぐいと言うか、
手ぬぐいの本だ！
本を開けば手ぬぐいになる。
長野県民の皆が覚えている歌詞も載っているし、信州の代表するイメージもフルカラーの絵も：県獣カモシカ、県木しらかば、県花りんどう、県鳥らいちょう、そしてお蕎麦、リンゴ、雪猿、温泉
中心に雪猿がりんご風呂に入っている絵も！
スノーモンキーがあって、ポイント高いですね！
問い合わせ先：
分かりません。多分所々で売っているでしょう。取り敢えず、この戸倉上山田温泉の衣料品屋さん「べに屋」で１５００円で販売しています。Tel(026)275-1249
Japan's 47 prefectures all likely have an official Prefecture Song, but Nagano's "Shinano no Kuni" is probably most loved by its people. It's sung by every school kid and danced to at every Bon Odori festival, so practically all Nagano-ites have the lyrics memorized.
Now "Shinano no Kuni" has been made into a book. Or, is it a tenugui bandana? Actually, it's a tenugui book -- a book that opens out into a tenugui.
The 'book' has the beloved lyrics to the Shinano no Kuni song, and features representative drawings of Nagano: serow (the prefectural wild animal), birch trees (the prefectural tree), gentian (prefectural flower), ptarmigan (prefectural bird) as well as soba noodles, apples, snow monkeys (high points for that!) and onsen. One of the drawings is of snow monkeys in an apple onsen bath slurping soba. Well, minus the soba.
Where to Purchase:
I don't really know. I suppose these Nagano tenugui books will be available at various stores throughout the prefecture. One place for sure is where I bought it: Togura Kamiyamada Onsen's clothing shop 'Beniya' where it's being sold for 1,500 yen. Tel(026)275-1249
Even the cute snow monkeys!
