of jointed block construction by cypress wood, a high hair knot out with
a plump face with crystal eyes, and piled the double-
layered clothing in the Muromachi period. It is designated as a cultural asset of Aizu-Bange town. When the Kannon-Ko was
actively held in the Aizu region, it was called Kyode-Kannon and was widely
collected the faith. My mother also went to visited
a lot with grandmother and her sisters around Showa 30 years(1955 years).
The original settlement was located about 550m
northeast, but it is said that it has moved to the current location at
any time. The site of the northeast 550m in the village is
now a embankment of the O-kawa river (Aga-kawa river).It might have
moved to avoid the damage of the flood perhaps. In addition, the name of Kyode, in Enryaku 25 year(Daido 1st year, 806
year, Kukai is returning from Tang) Mt. Bandai
erupted and upheave. It is reported that the villagers who had been evacuated
were made to the village name because the
two-sho of the Sarashina and the Tsukinowa in Yama county collapsed and
was submerged in Lake Inawashiro (Aizu-Onko-
Jyuyo).The emergence of Lake Inawashiro was about 50,000 years ago in the Paleolithic
period, and the present form became
since the Edo period.
(Welcome map, Aizu Bange town East area map)
However, according to the temple's Kannon-Engi-cho(Origin and history-book) Daido 1 year(806 year, the year when Mt. Bandai
erupted and Lake Inawashiro was created), from the Hasu-ike in the village
found the statue of Kannon, it is said that there is
a description said that it was enshrined in the Haku-unzan Seinei-ji temple
which was at that time. Next to the precincts of the
Kannon-Dō of the ruins that Seinei-ji temple was burnt down in later years,
it is reported that it rebuilt it as the Hagurozan
Saiko-ji temple. In addition, such as the printing block of the Daigongen Bodhisattva statue engraved with the name of
Hagurozan Toko-ji temple is left, it is thought that there was a deserted
temple of two temples before the Saiko-ji temple was
founded.The Kannon-Dō of the precincts (principal image seated statue of Sho-Kannon)
is become the number 33rd pilgrimage
site of Aizu 33 Kannon.
In the "Koike" surname of Aozu village, such an episode….. Kenkyu 2 year(1191 year, early days of the Kamakura shogunate), Taira-no-Kiyomori’s
brother Yorimori’s child Nakamori is
descended to Aizu, he lived on the banks of the Hasu-ike(Lotus pond) in Oike village and took the name of Koike(little pond).
The Aza place name of Aza-Koike is left in the Oike village now. The descendants
were in Shoho years(1644 year ~ 1647 year,
in the early Edo period), since the land was opened and moved to Aozu,
it has continued to the present. In the Aozu village,
surname Koike is like a twenty over houses, it accounts for thirty percent of the entire village, it is not limited that all are
related by blood. It is thought that the flow of Taira-no-Nakamori flow
Koike is made though the derivation is different
respectively by saying three Koike. Mr. Koike in front of the Josen-ji temple in Aozu village is descendants of Taira-no-
Nakamori. He had a relationship with Taira-no-Kiyomori uncle and nephew,
it is not well known except that it is one of the
warlords of Mr. Taira Samurai Group about Taira-no-Nakamori. However,
the father Taira-no-Yorimori was a bureaucrat
commander who had been promoted to the court noble, for the Yorimori to insist on bureaucracy inside the Heike, after the
failure of the political struggle with Kiyomori who led the samurai politics,
approaching the Minamoto-no-Yoritomo of
Kamakura (Kamakura city, Kanagawa prefecture), it comes to receive the protection. And, when the Heike went to ruin in the
Dan-no-ura, Yorimori is entered the Buddhist gate at Nara(Nara city, Nara
prefecture) Todai-ji temple, but Nakamori went out
of Kamakura from the difference of opinion with father and turned to Oshu(current Tohoku region) Aizu Inagawa-sho.
The surname which is thought to be derived from Nakamori is in all parts of the country. To the right of the precienct entrance, "Ike-no-Nagon Taira-no-Yorimori Koike(below unreadable)" and there is a memorial
tower that can be as "Bunji 2 year(1186 year)" to read. Taira-no-Yorimori died in the Bunji 2 year, because there was a big pond in the Yorimori residence in Kyoto in time of the court
noble, it is said that it had been honorific title called the Ike-no Dainagon.
cross over road".
"Shiomine-toge pass cross over road" is the
ancient Echigo-Kaido road in main route, Nozawa – Matsuo –
Onobori – Kagata – Urushikubo – Shiotsubo – Shiomine-toge – Nishihaga – Higashihaga – Shobuzawa-pass –
Unai – Aozu –
Aoki – Numakoshi – Tachikawa – Dohata – Moridai – Shimokoya – Kamikoya (Yonezawa-Kaido road) – it was the one leading
to Wakamatsu castle town(Aizu-Wakamatsu city). At this time, the center of Kawanuma-county is "Aozu district".
Jitoku 1 year
(1384 year, around Northern and Southern Courts unification). After the
Castle Kurokawa(in the south of Tsuruga-jo castle
Honmaru) by Ashina Naomori. From the Shobuzawa-toge pass to the Funakoshi – Oike – Tokamachi – Murata – Sano –
Takaku, Wakamatsu-Kaido road through Takaku has also developed. At this
time too, the center of Kawanuma-county was
"Aozu district".Because the section of Urushikubo and Shiozawa beyond the Shiomine-toge
pass was a steep and dangerous
spot named as the Zato-korobashi (roll down the blind man), it was also
being used to cross the Tabane-mastu-toge pass. Keicho 16 year(when the friction between Tokugawa and Toyotomi family became violently) in the Aizu large earthquake, the
Shobuzawa-toge pass was lost in the mountain landslides, and a new Kanetsukido(bell
tower)-toge pass was digging and the
road leading to the Ketanomiya was opened from Higashihaga to the place
of the Kanetsukido-toge pass. Nozawa – Karusawa –
Tabanematsu-toge pass – Tenya – Katakado – Funato – Kanetsukido-toge pass – Ketanomiya – Todera – Bange – Habayashi –
Fukuhara – Saikuna – Tsukahara – Takaku to Wakamatsu castle town the road has been opened and will be the main route
of Echigo-Kaido road. From this time, "Bange" begins to flourish
in the center of Kawanuma-county. The peoples of central
Echigo(Niigata prefecture) and the north were using this road to go to
Edo(Tokyo), and it was also a road of the Sankin-Kotai
(alternate attendance by a daimyo in Edo). If Ono-no-komachi is from Ono town in Fukushima prefecture, she would have been headed to Kyo (Kyoto) through this road. The sister brother of Anju and Zushio of the medieval drama "Sansho Dayu" might
have headed to Echigo Naoetsu(Naoetsu city, Niigata Prefecture) through
this Echigo-Kaido road too. The photograph is the old
Echigo-Kaido road in Aoki village leaving the atmosphere of old times. Please refer to
"Welcom material" for the transition of the route of Echigo-Kaido
road in the Aizu region.
The young peoples were in very rising of enthusiasm condition to get drunk,
sing songs and start dancing. At just that time, one
samurai was drinking sake in a downstairs room. Because the pleasant chat of the upstairs became large, the dish and bowl on
tapped, and it came to be noisy with the slapstick, the samurai was drinking
sake while doing a bitter face. It might have been
down at the upstairs the bottle or soup bowl. A drip of water drops into
the samurai's tray. What? When he looked up at the
ceiling, a drop of water drops coming continuously on later. Samurai who had been piling up patience until now, and rise and to
grasp the handguard base of the sword in the left hand and "Hey! what are you! Who has behaved so rudely to a samurai!
Come down early!" and he yelled. Surprised was the shopkeeper of
the Shioya, he immediately made a humble apology to
samurai at kneel. However, the samurai who seems to be bad of the drinking habit raises the voice and shouts, and "rude guys
are not to forgive!" and now he also climb to upstairs. On the other
hand, young peoples who heard this from the maid, this ran
away barefoot from the back door just to be hard. There is no one when
the samurai shaking off the shopkeeper's hand and it
rises upstairs and it sees. The furious samurai said, "Hei! Shopkeeper, you have missed it, on this you are the other opponent.
Get out!" It became a obstinate. The samurai who had enough sake,
the front of neck of the shopkeeper is grasped and it tries
to pull outside.At that time, the shopkeeper's
son came out from the back of shop, "there is no other choice without forgiveness
even if my father apologized for this, let me be your opponent."
he came to offer. And, in front of the store, because it bothers
passers-by, he have to guide the samurai and let us in the precincts of the back of the shrine.
Because the samurai is a townspeople it is not a big deal, and the sword
is pulled out, he rase one’s sword over one’s head to
cut it now. The son confronted to assume the middle guard of the Dochu-Wakizashi (medium length sword for trip) that he
brought. The samurai was drunken momentum, and the sword which had been
rase one’s sword over one’s head was swung
down thoroughly. And then the son dodged himself and strike off the samurai's
body. The samurai was two or three steps
forward and stumbling on a tree stump, he fall down, he was death as it is. It is that the other is drinking, and even if it says
that it is not guilty this side, and it is not supposed to be free because
the townspeople had kill the samurai at that time.
The son fled to somewhere and says he never showed up in the Bange again. There were many Swordsmanship-Dojo in the
Bange of Edo period, and there were many swordsmanship thriving among the townspeople, and there were a lot of young
peoples who stood considerable arms.This is the place
of the duel of Inagawa Inari Shrine.
(Welcome map, Aizu Bange town Center area map)
Located in the northeast of Aizu Bange town, almost in the central part
of the Numakoshi
village. Principal image is a standing statue of Amida Nyorai. When was founded and open
base are unknown.Near the "Soba-dokoro Kurumaya shop". The Numakoshi village is,
it was
merged with the Magarinuma village and Funakoshi village in Meiji 8 year(1875
year, when
it headed along to the Seinan War), and it became the Numakoshi. Tengi
5 year(1057 year) of
Shinto priest list of Kokoro-Shimizu Hachiman shrine in Ihon-Todera-nagacho, the name of
the village of the Magarinuma is described, it is a village opened from
ancient times
.The standing statue Seishi Bosatsu of the corner is enshrined in the Zushi of the main hall,
it is said that it was one of the Takadera 36-Bo (monastery), it was the
principal image of the
It was a monk with a very learning and virtue, and he got purple robe
(Purple robe is, it was not possible to wear it if it was not
Emperor or noble position at that time.) from the Emperor Ogimachi. In addition, it is related to the trend of the public because
there is friendship with Kanpaku Konoe Sakihisa, Uesugi Kenshin, Toyotomi
Hideyoshi, Hosokawa Yusai, etc., Mr. Ashina
Moriuji, and the senior vassals of Mr. Ashina’s clan are appointment the
official court rank is said to be due to the work of the
Gyushu-Shonin. Some of the souvenirs brought homecoming to Shotoku-ji temple in Eiroku 1st year(1558 year), the silk coloring
Jyuroku-Zenshin-zo(Sixteen Goodness God statue) is a Buddhist painting
of Muromachi period, the two Bosatsu(Bodhisattva)
arranged of Fugen and Monju to the Wakiji(attendants aside) from centering
on Buddha, it has been designated as a prefecture
important cultural asset by drew the rich colors that depicts the Jyuroku-Zenshin-zo(Sixteen
Goodness God) around. Other goods
brought by Gyushu-Shonin are designated as Town cultural properties. There
are still hidden rooms in Shotoku-ji temple.
It seems to had used it as a secret talks and crime prevention. The Aozu Kannon of the "Japan Heritage Aizu 33 Kannon and
32nd Fudasho (pilgrimage site)" which is enshrined in the back circular part of Kamegamori-Kofun was originally located at
Shotoku-ji temple. Keicho 16 year(1611 year) the time of the Aizu big earthquake (M 7.3), that called Yamazaki-new-lake the
dam lake was made, it was submerged in the whole village, Aoki Kannon-dō has leaked out and washed ashore to Aozu
downstream, and has since become the management of the Josen-ji temple in Aozu. It is called "Aozu Kannon" now, but it was
named "Aoki Kannon" at the time when Mr. Hoshina Masayuki was enacted. Gyushu-Shonin is, who is one of the two large high
priest that Aizu has produced along with Tenkai-Sojyo from the Aizu Misato
town in Takada distrct.
-West 2-Cho and 50-Ken (about 310m), South-North 3-Cho and 18-Ken (about
360m) with moat around the castle area.
Tensho 17 year(1589 year) in June, when the Date Masamune invaded Aizu,
it also attacked Aozu. It is said that it pulls water to
the moat from the Nippashi-river which flowed in the old times village, and the attack of Date’s army was surpassed for one week,
and Date’s army was given up and withdrew. It seems to have been a fortress
of ironclad exactly, and the moat seemed to have
been a dry moat in peacetime. The moat had been dug up to enclose the
entire Aozu village. The almost majority are lost in the
farmland maintenance and the Agricultural isolation road maintenance, and a part of it remains in the village East end on the
scale of the maximum width 30m, height 10m, and 200m in length. Until the early Showa 30s (around 1955 year), there was a
seeing clean flow of the moat which is the south and the west of Aozu
village. There is still spring water and it is used for the
farming work. It is a place to recall the vestiges of the medieval fortress. It may have become a private property, it should remain
as a valuable remains that can validation the medieval fortress, such
as land development and farmland maintenance, it is a
place that does not want to disappear any more. The road leading to the heights of the photograph left is the ruins which
are presumed to be the Koguchi(tiger mouth) at that
time(entrance of the fortress in the Medieval).
opening and founding years are unknown. The written by Indian ink of Koan
5 year(1282 year, the year after the Genko(Mongolian
invasions to Japan)) has been discovered from inward of the wooden statue
of Amida Nyorai the principal image. It is a Buddhist
image of the late Kamakura influenced by the Song style, and it is a cultural
property designated of Aizu-Bange town. There is a
100-year age differences, but it must have attracted the faith of the local people for a long time. Koan 5 year is the year of the
opening of Kencho-ji temple in Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture.The Aizu large earthquake (M7. 3) the Kannon statue which
was swept away from Shotoku-ji temple in Aoki at the time, is enshrined
in the back circular part of the Kamegamori-kofun and is
the management of the Josen-ji temple. It is called to "Aozu Kannon", but it was called "Aoki Kannon" at that time when
Mr. Hoshina Masayuki enacted, it though it became the 32nd pilgrimage site of "Japanese heritage Aizu 33 Kannon" holy place.
(Welcome map, Aizu Bange
town North-West area map)
It is located at the southern end of the Aozu village. The principal image
is the standing statue
of wooden Amida Nyorai.In the Aozu village, there is the Kamegamori-kofun, which boasts the
first scale in Tohoku as a Kofun built on a flat land, and since there
was also a harbor for
waterborne traffic, it is presumed that the temple was founded quite early. In Koreki 2 year
(1380 year, the North-South Dynasty period of Japan), Namae Daizen received
1200-koku
(equivalent to 3,000 bales of rice, the current amount is 700 million yen ) from Mr. Ashina, and
there is a record of building the Seikozan Josen-ji temple and enshrined
the statue of Amida,
but this is said to have rebuilt the temple that had become uninhabited,
and the details of the
Soto-sect Seikozan
Josen-ji temple
The two mounds is in the farmland in the north of the Kamegamori-kofun are the Hokyointo
stone pagoda is built in each. In the grave of ancestors of Mr. Namae
of Lords of the medieval
Aozu, it is said dedicated six bodies each man and woman. The gravestone
of the Hokyointo is
rarely seen in Aizu Bange region. The whole is referred to as "the Man’s Alter Ruins".
The corner decoration of the man’s alter in front of the photograph valiant
overhanging, and
the corner decoration of the woman’s altar in the is made in modest kindness.
Although do not know when the time of the built, the lattice of the base of the tower is a feature
of Kanto style, and the influence of Kamakura culture is evident. In the
excavation of Aizu
Bange town, from the ruins, the A.D. 250 year (around the time of Queen
Himiko) the grave of
Mr. Namae family of Lords of the medieval Aozu is, the ancestors produced
the nanny of Minamoto-no-Yoritomo, Shimousa country
Yuki (Yuki city, Ibaraki prefecture) of the powerful family, the descendants of Yuki-no-Shichiro-Tomomitsu. Namae Taizen is a
grandchild after the 3rd generation of Yuki-Kozuke-Nyudo-Tadamichi. In
Koryaku 2 year (1380 year), Mr. Namae Taizen he
received Aozu 1,200-Koku (equivalent to 3,000 bales of rice, the current
amount is 700 million yen ) from Mr. Ashina, and ruled the
region until the beginning of the Meiji period. When the Aizu rule of
Mr. Ashina enters the stable period, the warlords of Mr. Ashina
moved to Aozu one after another, and formed a large fortified mansion
as to strengthen the defense the Namae-Yakata.
The warlords are called "eight crowd of Aozu (Akutagawa, Unai, Ebana, Kato, Koike, Sanuki, Shirai, Matsumoto)" and there is also
the name of house which moved out, and other descendants is still living
here now. It seems to have been a fortress of ironclad that
"Namae outer moat" defends the entire village, and there is
a place to recalled the remnants to the east side of the village enough.
The chief priest in the Kyoto Hyakumanben Chion-ji temple was served for about 26 years, and was given a purple robe from the
Emperor Ogimachi. the Chion-ji temple 30th priest the Daisojyo Gyushu
Daio Shonin is, a virtuous priest in the clan of Mr. Namae,
it is the most famous monk in history with the Tenkai-Sojo from the Aizu
Misato town Takada district as a high academic virtue
priest.
whether the festival like the First-Market was held against the Market-God at that time. But it is said that it was enshrined as a
Guardian-God of Aozu village until the Meiji period. The original was
on the other side of the road, and was enshrined in the
respectable of cover house of a warehouse-build. Since it was transferred
to current location at the time of the road construction, it
had been followed from generations by this old family. It is said that the around the back is an old port, and there was a connecting
boats stone, too. The stone was able to go missing to changes in watershed
of Aga-river revetment construction, and river
renovation construction.I would like to take more care of this cultural heritage because this is
a witness to the history of Aizu-
Bange town's prosperity.
"This is called the Boat-connecting-stone, it was a stone that used to connect the boat." So from my father when I was young child
and learned. The place is remembered as it was near the original Kaisei-bashi
bridge. There is no elderly person who knows it in
the village now, and there are few people who know the origin, and it is
not understood in the Town-history-compilation-room of
town too. Boat-connecting stone is, in the name of the modern port equipment, the mooring pillar is a stone that is multiplied by
a mooring rope so that the boat entered the port so as not to leave from
the wharf, it is called a Bollards. It is a short-profile iron
pillar with an oval head on the wharf of a port and a fishing port. It
goes up to the Agano-river from the Sea of Japan and it
enters the Aga-river, and it is the one that the boat anchored in the port
of the entrance of Aozu in the west of Aizu was keep in
connected, and the water transportation was time in hight of its prosperity.
When the end of water transportation of Aga-river,
the stone had been left at that time until the Meiji period. It is the only evidence that can identify "Aozu port". The stone was in
the same place as the Market-god-stone (Ichigami-ishi) when the flow of
the Aga-river flowed more near the village than now.
It was moved near to the river basin of Aga-river in Meiji period….., until
to know…..,All the good children of Aizu-Bange let’s
to will forever cherish it the historical heritage that our ancestors left
behind.
The central forest is the Kamegamori Kofun and the massif of the right
rear is Mt. Takadera. "Aozu" is the confluence point of the
Aga-river and the Tsurunuma-river in the north and Nigori-river, and the
water is abundant and the flow is bubblling. In addition,
there was a boat arriving from the Kofun period as a important point of the water transportation. And, the Echigo-Kaido road
which leads to the Sea of Japan side also goes, and the powerful clans
of Unai and Aozu Kofun group might have prospered based
on the interest of water and land transportation. In Japanese old words,
"Ai" is where rivers gather, and "Tsu" means port.
Aozu
was called "Tsu of the Bubble" or "Tsu of the phase".It is said that "Tsu of the bubble" changed to "Aozu", and "Tsu of the phase"
changed to "Aizu". When we consider these things, we can say that "Aozu" is the birthplace of the place name of Aizu.About the
origin of the place name in Aizu is in Kojiki, the four-way generals of Ohiko-no-mikoto and his son Take-nunakawa-wake-no-
mikoto were, it is told that it is from having met in this land. But it
is unreasonable to think about the dominant range of the
administration at that time. This is due to the interpretation of the
Kojiki by the national scholar Moto-ori Norinaga in the Edo
period. In the old time, Okawa (Aga river) was flowing the part which
became the field near the village of the photograph.
The first place of the name of Aizu was introduced to the official domestic
material in Man-yo-shu(780 year’s compilation). It is a
famous poetry that everyone knows if it is Aizu peoples. "The country of the Aizu peaks. Because it is far away from the country
sadly. For the memory of you, please tie the strings to me". Aizu
of this time the powerful clan of Unai and Aozu which had been
made into a Buddhist kingdom, it was immediately after it was fall in
the military fire with Takadera. By Aizu Gunga(county
government offices), together with Yama-county and Onuma-county, at last, it is the time when the country of the mountain
including the Aizu peaks(Mt. Bandai and other mountains) was approved.
"Since I’m far away from the country of Bandai peaks.
I'll never see you again. Don't forget for your thoughts. Please tie a
string to my waist". It is a poetry of a couple or lovers who
leaving for relocate to the country of Chikushi (now Kita-Kyushu city)
as a Sakimori(soldiers garrisoned at strategic posts in
Kyushu in ancient times).However, on the other hand, the insect movement of the cheating immediately. "In the Chikushi, she
was so pretty lady, untie the string of Mutsu's(now Fukushima, Miyagi,
Iwate, Aomori, and a part of Akita prefecture) Katori
maiden". is the insect movement of cheating immediately. But on the
other hand, when I met the lovely daughter of Chikushi
country. It solve the string by the Mutsu katori maiden tied. The insect
of the flirt begins to move immediately. This is also the
poetry of the Aizu people, "when I met a cute girl in Chikushi country, I solved the string that maiden
the weaving in Aizu was
tying", I made such a hard promise, two minds of a men, when it is thing in always a time. But the man in Aizu does not say that
he is a flirt. Mind Gently, the heart is deprived by beautiful things,
and in tear, it is just pure and honest personality.
The ladys of the world do not misunderstand, and please believe in him
from Aizu. Tying a string is, in the promises of men and
lady in ancient times of love and engagement "as a marriage or a lover, promise to be with you forever. " it was
a ceremony of
swearing to say. Whether the tie a string to the waist or not, to supposed to know if have a lover or a married person, it was an
ancient marriage-activaty authentication system.We'll be with you forever, and the string was tied to each other's waist.
Now in say, wedding rings or engagement rings and it might be like pairing
of lovers. "Katori" is old Japaneze word of "Weaving".
And there is not place name to say "Katori" in Fukushima prefecture
and Tohoku region. From the Shimousa country Katori-no
-sho (famous for Katori Jingu, Katori city, Chiba prefecture), weaving technology lore or migrant workers were coming to Aizu,
"maiden" ... I think it means a young woman.
the exact location can not be identified. It is estimated that the area
between Habayashi village and "Townspeople pool" with per
connect to Fukuhara village. It seems that "Dobashi (earth-paved
bridge)" was hung in a dry season in winter.
After the Echigo-Kaido road came through to Bange, the traffic of the people
and the pack-horse became more and more, and it
became the foundation of the Bange prosperity as a commercial town. Three-way
road construction in Meiji 15 year (1888 year),
it was the main road until the Tsurunuma-bridge of Route 49 was crosslinked. The Tsurunuma-river of Oei 26 year (1420 year) is,
as the headwaters of the Mt. Arakai (elevation 1581m) of the border Fukushima
and Tochigi prefectures, in Aizu-Kuji-Zakko
things, and it seems to had flowed to the west from Iwasaki-Mukai-Haguro
(Mt. Mukaihaguro, Hongo district, Aizu Misato town,
Onuma county). And around in Takada district Aizu-Misato town, Mt. Hakase(elevation 1482m) chain of mountains is headwaters
and confluence to Miya-river and headed to north. It flows under the Dainomiya
park of the east end of Aizu-Bange town, and
flows behind the Shirohata shrine in Shimo-Mandokoro. And in North of Aozu,
in the vicinity of Yamashina in Keitoku town,
Kitakata city it confluence to Nippashi-river, which was the headwater of the Urabandai lakes and Lake Inawashiro. It was
mainstream of the current Okawa (Aga-river). In Tenbun 5 year June 28(1536
year) at the time of the Shirohige big flood(big
flood of white beard), collapsed in near the Iwasaki-Mukai-Haguro, the
flow goes on north from this place and joins the
Nippashi-river in the vicinity of Shiokawa town in Kitakata city, and
has become the current watershed since it became Okawa.
The Miya-river also collapse at this time flow goes on north and joined
Okawa in the vicinity of the Miyako bridge.
In Aizu-Kuji-Zakko, Kyoroku 4 year(1531 year, March 1st). Dammed the river
with the appear of a monster serpent in Saimyo-ji
ferry of Bange, Kawanuma county. The water does not flow overnight, and
there is a record of incidents at the time.
Because there is no reason why there is such a big snake, driftwood and soil and stone which had been swept away by the thaw
water might express the state that blocked the flow.
Echigo-Kaido road is a route connecting the Aizu-Wakamatsu(Aizu-Wakamatsu
city,
Fukushima prefecture) and Echigo-Shibata (Shibata city, Niigata prefecture),
it was a traffic
route from old time. It was called the Aizu-Kaido road from the Echigo-Shibata
side. It is
known as a commonly name of the National Route 49 in now, from Iwaki city,
Fukushima
prefecture to Niigata city, Niigata prefecture. The route went up along the Agano-river from
Shibata and from Tsugawa(Tsugawa town, Niigata prefecture) to Nozawa(Nozawa
district,
Nishi-Aizu town, Fukushima prefecture) and parted in two, and the other
side was "Shiomi
ne-toge pass cross over road" along the Aga river, and the other
was "Tabanematsu-toge pass
Currently, it is often enshrined in the field of metal/steel related, metal processing plants, the "Fuigo-Matsuri (Bellows Festival)"
held in the industry is a ritual in honor of old things. Don’t know the details about the auspicious of this shrine.If it is allowed
to guess, it is thought that it was praying for the coming of a deity
by the Katana-Kaji (Swordsmith) group and the Agricultural
Tool Blacksmith group which used the iron sand taken in the O-kawa(Aga river) which flows nearby. The only shrine in Aizu
-Bange town."If you pray,
do you have a lot of money coming in? " No! No! It is important to performance
the job seriously.
After I bought a lottery ticket at Daikoku-do’s lottery ticket shop, I
visited shrine here, and the Summer-jumbo lottery and the
Year-end-jumbo lottery hit 100, 000 yen. Probably, this might be a divine
grace isn’t it?
The Medieval, the house of Mr. Namae of the Lord of Aozu, in the time of
Aizu region of Mr.
Ashina, now descendants is in still living. It is reminiscent of the house of the ruling class by
the heavy-built Nagayamon gate. Can see the remnants of those days in
the stone masonry of
the moat, it is the ruins of the medieval castle mansion to leave the
atmosphere of the mansion,
such as the soil base remains part. The mansion was originally built in the back circle part of
the Kamegamori-kofun, but for defense reasons, the mansion is now in its
leads to the current
location poised. This is why the mound-hill in the back circle part of
the Kamegamori-kofun is
cut off. The road in front of the mansion was the old Echigo-Kaido road.
At the time of the First-Market (Hatsu-ichi) of January 14 in Aizu Bange
town, the original of
the Goshintai (the object of warship) of the Market-shrine (Ichi-jinja) to be published in front
of the town hall, it is a rock from Hokuriku Noto(Ishikawa prefecture and a part of Toyama
prefecture) that followed in the old former family of Aozu. To maintain stability when the ship
is sailing, it is the one that the weight stone (ballast) piled up in
the ship bottom was deification.
When it was carried out, it was not known, but the water transportation
of the Aga-river
flourished, and the village of Aozu prospered as a port, and the exchange
of goods with Echigo
(Niigata prefecture) was active time, was said that it was enshrined together
with the Market
-God-Statue. The market festival began in the age of the reign of Mr.
Ashina, and it is not known
The ruins of
Saimyo-ji ferryboat
The powerful clans of Unai and Aozu, who protect Takadera Buddhism, fulfilled a Buddhist
kingdom.They, mainly in the Kawanishi district in the western of the Aizu basin,
it is said that
40 or more in the range of 2 km east-west and south-north 8 km, it In
the Tohoku region they
formed of the largest Kofun tumulus dense area. Construction started around the 3rd century,
and it is thought that the ancient regime had been established ahead of
other region in the
Japan archipelago.In Aozu, the settlements were formed from the Kofun period, and the
earliest rice production was done in the Aizu basin. One of the largest
kofun in the kofun
group is the "Kamegamori Kofun (total length 127m)", on the flatland the largest in the
Tohoku region, as an ancient tomb construction.The photograph is "traces of riverboat wharf
traces of Aozu" seen from the Aga-river embankment.
"Saimyo-ji ferry" is, Bun-o 1st year(1260 year), it was named
to commemorate visited Aizu of
the 5th regent Hojo Tokiyori of Kamakura shogunate. Hojo Tokiyori is, it was called "Mr.
Saimyo-ji" because it became a priest in Saimyo-ji temple (another
name Soshu Zenko-ji temple)
of Sagami country Matsuda (Oi-Matsuda town, Ashigara-county, Kanagawa prefecture).
Keicho 16 year(1611 year), the ferryboat between the Fukuhara village on the other side of the
Tsurunuma-river from the Habayashi village of the road connecting the
Bange and the
Wakamatsu castle town after the Aizu earthquake was called "Saimyo-ji
ferry".
Now for river renovation work, road maintenance, farmland maintenance,
it disappeared,
Push the page bottan
About 1km north of the Miyako village at the east end of Aizu-Bange town, and located in
the Kyode settlements of Goka village. The foundation is unknown. Principal Buddha is a
seated statue of Amida Nyorai.In the "Shin-pen-Aizu-Fudoki", Keicho 7 year(1602 year, the
year before the Tokugawa shogunate) is converted to the Soto sect.Because the rot of the
main hall became violent, it was dismantled, and it was newly built to serve used as both a
temple and meetinghouse in Heisei 5 year(1993 year, the establishment
of the Hosokawa
Morihiro Coalition cabinet) on the site. The Kannon-Dō from old times
is built in the south
of this village. The Kannon-Dō’s principal image wooden statue of the Sho-Kannon is made
Located at the northern end of Oike village, north east of Aizu-Bange town.
Principal Buddha is a seated statue of jeweled crown Shaka Nyorai.It is said that there is
a pond which is called Hasu-ike(Lotus pond) in the north of the village, and the village made
in around was called the Oike village. The place where the Hasu-ike of
the village northeast
was is a rice field in now by the field maintenance.According to the Shinpen-Aizu-Fudoki,
Tensho 1st year(1573 year, the year when Oda Nobunaga was expelled Shogun Ashikaga
Yoshimitsu and the Muromachi shogunate was ruined), it said the monk Shunko
was build
the Saiko-ji temple in the Oike village of Inagawa-sho.
Old Echigo-Kaido
road
The shrine enshrined toward the southeast direction with turn the back
to North-back-street
of the Kamicho district.It is not clear whether the origin of the shrine name is related to
Inagawa-sho (or Ninagawa-sho) of the manor (Shoen) name in the Heian period, or from the
name of the person who says Inagawa. Enshrined is Uka-no-mitama-no-kami.This shrine
has an episode like this. One day in Edo period, after the festival of Bange, 10 young peoples
were opening the feast of the Festival on the upstairs of a tavern called "Shioya".
At that time, the tavern called Shioya it was located in the east side
of the garden of Toyokuni Brewery (which was called a Shin-Sakaya shop).
The duel at Inagawa
Inari!
Inagawa Inari
Shrine
Enshrined near the Onjo-ji temple in the Numakoshi village. The feast day
is on September
1. It is a guardian deity in the Numakoshi district. The founding year is unknown.
Because the name of the shrine is golden shrine, it is not a golden shrine. Enshrined is the Kanayamahiko-no-mikoto. A god who protects the gold, silver,
copper and
other mines and controls the safety of metallurgy industry. God is adoration from mines and
metal suppliers. From ancient times, it attracted more adoration than
the vocational group
that produced the Hoe and the Plow of the agricultural equipment, the
swordsmith, and the
armor.
Seishi-Bo. The statue is by the joined block construction, carved eyes,
oval-faced features, the carving of the eyes and nose and
the clothes is shallow, a slender and smart body shape. It is thought that it is a work of the Kamakura period because the
style of the Song (Song country, one of the old China) style is seen in
the folds of the robe. Aizu Bange town designated cultural
property.
(Welcome map, Aizu Bange town North-West area map)
Temple is
remembered in connection with Gyushu-Shonin
Jodo-sect
Hongenzan Shotoku-ji temple
It is called "Namae outer moat" in the moat ruins to defend from
the foreign enemy the Namae
mansion and Aozu village built by Mr. Namae of the medieval Aozu lord.
The name of Azachi
(last address name) in the border between Aoki village and Aozu village
is "Namae outer moat",
until around the Showa 30 year (1955 year), there are ruins of moat in the south of Josen-ji
temple, the bridge of the name "Sotobori-bashi (Outer moat bridge)"
was built. The current
Outer moat bridge has become a gutter grating. When I was in elementary
school, this bridge
was the route to my father's parents house, and I went to Aozu through the front of gate of the
Josen-ji temple. According to the Shinpen-Aizu-Fudoki, at that time, Aozu
had 78 houses, East
The ruins of Namae
outer moat
the circumferential ditch has been excavated. The Hokyointo stone pagoda
is a kind of Buddhist pagoda used for the Tomb-tower,
Memorial-tower, and there are many relics stone built is along with the Gorinto. It was said that it learnt in the historical event of
the Wu-Yue(Go-Etsu) period of China, and it was made to be actively in
the Japan after the middle of the Kamakura period.
The origin of the name comes from, the Hokyoin-darani and the Hokyoin-shinju-kyo
put into the tower. However, even if other
things are put into, all of the same shape is called the Hokyointo. Originally, it is a tower of the esoteric Buddhism system, but
after the boom occurred in the Kamakura period, it came to built regardless of the sect. For information on
the names of the parts of the tower, refer to "Welcome material".
