Storyteller
Passing folk tales in one’s own voice.
At libraries and community spaces, storytellers choose the pace and words for the listeners in front of them.
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Storytellers and makers
People who keep voices.People who shape stories.People who support records.
Monpe no Kai continues through voices that tell folk tales, hands that make clay dolls, and records kept in photographs and words. This page introduces each person’s role and feelings little by little.
Voice, hands, and records
- Storytellers
- People who pass folk tales by voice and leave them in memory.
- Makers
- People who give story scenes a visible form through clay dolls and exhibits.
- Record keepers
- People who preserve activities through photographs, writing, audio, and the web.
Purpose of this page
Making the human memory inside the group visible.
Folk tales have been inherited not only as text but also with tone, pauses, laughter, and hand movements. These profiles are not just biographies; they are entries into why each person works with the stories.
We will introduce storytelling, doll making, and record-keeping through photographs and short words.
Introductions
People who tell, make, and preserve.
Maker
Shaping the story by hand.
Clay dolls and exhibits show scenes from folk tales. We will record the ideas, materials, and repair notes in the makers’ words.
Record keeper
Leaving activity traces in a form others can read later.
Photographs, recordings, notes, and web pages help the moment remain traceable beyond the people who were there.
Profile pages are being prepared.
Names, photographs, and short introductions will be prepared carefully, then connected to individual pages one by one.
Storyteller
In preparation
A childhood story heard from a grandmother, handed to the next child in one’s own voice.
Clay dolls
In preparation
One figure can take three months. The shelf grows a few figures at a time.
Research and records
In preparation
Visiting elders, listening to old stories, and keeping handwritten notes.
Preparing
Introducing each member, one at a time.
Member introductions will be added slowly and carefully.
What we want to keep next
Even short words from each person matter.
What I care about when telling this story.
A memory from making this doll.
An Omachi landscape I want the next generation to remember.