Manno Town, Kagawa Prefecture: Toys and play equipment made from local materials

香川県まんの町 県産材を使ったおもちゃと遊具

Good evening. Another year has flown by. There are only two more days until the end of work at Nakayoshi Library. Everyone, there's not much left of the year. Please bear with me for a little longer and read my blog posts.

Delivering products made from local materials to Mannou Town

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
A playroom made with cypress floors and cypress wainscoting.

As December approaches, we will be making more deliveries by our own company. We had been planning to deliver playground equipment to Kotonami Miraikan in Mannou Town, Kagawa Prefecture since last year. After Kotonami Junior High School was closed due to consolidation, the building has been used as the Kotonami Regional Revitalization Center, where local parents and children can play freely.

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Kotonan Junior High School.

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Assembled mini house

Using materials from Kagawa Prefecture, Nakayoshi Library has created a product that is a little different from the playground equipment they usually make. First of all, this assembled mini house*

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment

The entire surface is an activity board where you can play.

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Open the window and you'll see the animals.

When you open the window, animals will appear. You can enjoy role play and puppet shows. *After all, a home needs windows.

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment

The main playground equipment is this slide.

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Bouldering surface
Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Difficult slope to climb
Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Stair surface
Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Slide surface

To prevent any danger, all corners are rounded and the cypress wood is polished to a smooth surface. It's quite slippery. The theme was to make a safe playground equipment that about 4 to 5 children can play with together. That's why I tried to be creative this time. If it proves popular, I might try making a ready-made product.

Nakayoshi Library Playground Equipment
Round table with building blocks

And a round table with building blocks. The lid closes securely.

Here is the content of the store play

And the best thing this time is the store play content. You can play in many stores, including a sushi shop, bakery, burger shop, and cake shop.

Nakayoshi Library Play House

Isn't this amount amazing? It took a toy craftsman about a week to make it. Even those of us who usually work with woodworking are fascinated by the finish and the intricacy of the work. We would like to introduce some of these works.

Nakayoshi Library Play House
Lunch box shop
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Bakery in your lunchbox
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Pizza delivery
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Fishmonger
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Bento side dishes
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Sushi restaurant set
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Sushi restaurant set
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Cutting board and egg toast
Nakayoshi Library Play House
pizza
Nakayoshi Library Play House
The topping and rice are fixed in place with magnets.
Nakayoshi Library Play House
Hamburger shop

I'm sure children will be happy to see so many food stores. It will be fun to play house. I hope that this store play set will become available to customers all over the country.

Nakayoshi Library Toy Factory

The playground equipment and toys for the Kotonami Miraikan in Mannou Town were made by the craftsmen at the furniture factory and the toy factory, who each put their skills and ideas to the best of their ability.

Pretend play set (wooden)

With Chie's ingenuity, we were able to create new designs for wooden products, which were then delivered to children, who put them to good use. I thought this was a rewarding job.

The more you use wooden products, the more lustrous they become. If they break, we will repair them and continue repairing them so that they can be used again. We hope that they will be used by many people in the local area for a long time to come.

Nakayoshi Library Furniture

Thank you to everyone in Mannou Town who placed their orders, and to all the craftsmen who worked on making them.

Well, there are only a few days left in the year. I'll be introducing the end of year deliveries tomorrow. But it's really cold today. I'd like to eat some hot pot. See you next time.

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Author of this article

Name: 濱田創
Role: 代表取締役
Origin: 高知県
Favorite location: 高知工場・本社
Favorite tree: 庭に植えているトチの木とケヤキ
Favorite word: 革新的な思考を考えるより古い思考を捨てること


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