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<\/a><\/p>\nThe building is a three-story building, made of reinforced concrete, which has a remnant of the old elementary school house.<\/p>\n
This is the front entrance.<\/p>\n Entering the entrance, we found a guide plate of the facility. The entrance, hallways, and stairways had atmospheres of the elementary school.<\/p>\n First, we went to the second floor. There are some workshops where we can have handmade experiences.<\/p>\n Works of art, which may be made by old elementary school students, are hung at the stair landings.<\/p>\n At that time, we experienced the making of Japanese candles\u00a0in this store, “Matsumoto Shoten.”<\/p>\n Japanese candles are made from “wax tree, Toxicodendron succedaneum” (Round things in a box in the upper part of the following photograph are nuts of the wax tree, from which wax is made). The core of the candle is made from Japanese paper and the pith of rush, the pith of rush\u00a0being wrapped with Japanese paper to obtain the core. (The cores are sticks in the box in the upper part of the photograph). The wax, obtained from the wax tree, is once formed into a big round stone (the lower part of the following photograph).<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n