Hajime Sugiyama is a farmer managing his family-run egg farm in Gotemba city, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Since the late 1970s, he has been recorded more than 75 oil paintings of agriculture and rural life from prewar
Showa to high economic growth period and displayed the collection of paintings with old farm tools in his private museum. “Drawing archives” are defined as the paintings depict modern agriculture and rural life made
by ordinary people from rural areas based on their own experiences and memories. Drawing archives are made
throughout Japan since high economic period. The collection of Hajime Sugiyama can be regarded as similar
documents.
This paper aims to clarify the reason why Sugiyama’s body of work was produced, the changes in
agriculture drawn there, the view of agriculture and farming village of drawers, and to consider the role of his
private museum in the preservation and succession of regional history.
First, the features of the neighborhood and the character images of Hajime Sugiyama are organized.
Next, the whole collections of his paintings stored in his museum are inventoried, and two works showing
changes in poultry farming and two works depicting the life of Sugiyama are analyzed. Finally, we will consider
the role of the museum that inherits the regional history as a collective memory of the neighborhood, with a
case of the fieldtrip visiting the museum by elementary school social children education.
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