Andes no Ie Bolivia

Andes no Ie Bolivia (Casa de Los Andes -Bolivia-) is a specialist importer and retailer of Bolivian folk musical instruments and folk crafts, and also operates a café, in Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan. It describes itself as Japan's first Bolivian ethnic musical instrument shop, founded in 1977 by Minoru Fukuoka and his wife Mayumi Fukuoka. The store has served generations of Andean folk music (folclore) enthusiasts and performers in Japan and abroad, and functions as a gathering place for the community as much as a retail outlet. The shop carries instruments central to Bolivian and Andean music — the charango, quena, and zampoña among them — along with parts, South American textiles, and folk craft items. It also offers instrument trials and hosts mini-lives and workshops. Over its history it has moved several times: it opened in Yamakita, Kanagawa Prefecture, relocated to Matsuda, Kanagawa, in 1984, then to Kichijōji in Musashino, Tokyo, in 2006, and finally to Kodaira, Tokyo, in 2010. In 1993 the founders built a private music hall and folk-materials room called "CABAÑA" at their Matsuda home, which was used for concerts, practice, and lodging by folclore lovers. Minoru Fukuoka died in 2018; his daughter Eri Fukuoka took over the shop and reopened it in September 2019. Today the Kodaira store, on the second floor of a building about two minutes' walk from the north exit of Kodaira Station on the Seibu Line, displays and sells instruments, parts, cloth goods, and folk crafts, shows charangos made by Minoru Fukuoka and dye paintings by Mayumi Fukuoka, and includes a café space where mini-lives are held. The official website continues to post business-day notices, new arrivals, and event information.

Andes no Ie Bolivia was founded in 1977 by Minoru Fukuoka and his wife Mayumi Fukuoka in a rented house in Mukaihara, Yamakita, Ashigarakami District, Kanagawa Prefecture. From the start it imported, sold, made, and repaired Bolivian folk instruments such as the charango. The September 1979 issue of the magazine "Latin American Music" introduced the shop as a place dealing in instruments and folk crafts that also served as a gathering spot for folclore enthusiasts. In 1980, Ernesto Cavour and his group visited the Yamakita workshop. In 1984 the shop relocated to Yori, Matsuda, in the same district of Kanagawa. On September 10, 1993, a music hall named "CABAÑA" opened on the grounds of the family home in Matsuda. It was created to introduce folclore and traditional Bolivian culture and to provide a place for enthusiasts to practice and hold concerts. The building was a two-story wooden structure with a floor area of about 145 square meters; the first floor contained a hall and two Japanese-style rooms usable for lodging and group stays, and with partitions removed it could serve as a concert hall seating 50 to 70 people. The construction cost, including acoustic equipment, was about 12 million yen, funded personally by Minoru Fukuoka. The second-floor folk-materials room displayed roughly 300 items collected by Fukuoka on his travels, including charangos and quenas, ponchos and other traditional clothing such as awayo, hand-woven textiles, and everyday tools. The hall was reportedly opened free of charge to enthusiasts as a practice and lodging facility. In 2006 Andes no Ie Bolivia moved to Minoru Fukuoka's family home in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo, and in 2010 it moved to Kodaira, Tokyo. Minoru Fukuoka died in 2018. His daughter Eri Fukuoka subsequently took over the shop and reopened it in September 2019. The current Kodaira store is on the second floor of a building about two minutes' walk from the north exit of Kodaira Station on the Seibu Line. It displays and sells folk instruments such as charango, quena, and zampoña, along with parts, South American cloth goods, and folk crafts. The interior also displays charangos made by Minoru Fukuoka and dye paintings by Mayumi Fukuoka, and includes a café space. Mini-lives are held in the store. The official website continues to publish business-day schedules, new arrivals, and event information, and a special page preserves the record of Andes no Ie Bolivia and the Fukuoka couple's activities from 1976 to 2001, along with Mayumi Fukuoka's dye works.

• 2019

  Daughter Eri Fukuoka reopened the shop in September.

• 2018

  Founder Minoru Fukuoka died.

• 2010

  Relocated to Kodaira, Tokyo.

• 2006

  Relocated to Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo.

• 1993

  Music hall "CABAÑA" opened on September 10 in Matsuda.

• 1984

  Relocated to Yori, Matsuda, Kanagawa Prefecture.

• 1980

  Ernesto Cavour and his group visited the Yamakita workshop.

• 1979

  Featured in the September 1979 issue of "Latin American Music" magazine.

• 1977

  Founded by Minoru and Mayumi Fukuoka in Yamakita, Kanagawa Prefecture, as Japan's first Bolivian folk instrument shop.

Japan's first and long-standing specialist shop for Bolivian folk instruments, doubling as a community hub and café for Andean music lovers.

• Charango

• Quena

• Zampoña

• South American textiles and folk crafts

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