Situadas numa região montanhosa isolada durante muito tempo, as aldeias de
Ogimachi, Ainokura y Suganuma viveram durante séculos do cultivo das amoreiras e
do bicho da seda.
As suas casas estilo Gassho de tecto de colmo e dupla
pendente muito acentuada são únicas no Japão.
Apesar das mudanças
radicais ocorridas estas aldeias constituem um notável exemplo de perfeita
adaptação da vida tradicional ao ambiente e às circunstâncias socio-económicas.
EN:
Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the
world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses
subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms.
The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only
examples of their kind in Japan. Despite economic upheavals, the villages of
Ogimachi, Ainokura and Suganuma are outstanding examples of a traditional way
of life perfectly adapted to the environment and people's social and economic
circumstances.
FR:
Situés dans une région
montagneuse longtemps isolée, ces villages aux maisons de style Gassho tiraient leur subsistance de la culture du
mûrier et de l'élevage du ver à soie. Leurs grandes maisons au toit de
chaume à double pente très accentuée sont uniques au Japon. Malgré les
bouleversements économiques, les villages d'Ogimachi, d'Ainokura et de Suganuma
demeurent des témoins exceptionnels de la parfaite adaptation de la vie
traditionnelle à son environnement et à sa fonction sociale.
Outstanding Universal Value
Criterion (iv): The
Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama are outstanding examples of
traditional human settlements that are perfectly adapted to their environment
and their social and economic raison d’être.
Criterion (v): It
is of considerable significance that the social structure of these villages, of
which their layouts are the material manifestation, has survived despite the
drastic economic changes in Japan since 1950. As a result they preserve both
the spiritual and the material evidence of their long history.
souce: UNESCO site
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/734
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