[What day is it today? | Tohoku Edition] What day is July 19th?

The anniversary of the death of Sugae Masumi, a traveler from the Edo period (Akita Prefecture)

a traveler and herbalist of the late Edo period,SugaeMasumi,Prefecture on July 19, 1829(August 18, 1829 in the Gregorian calendar), and was buried next to the grave of Kamata Masayoshi, a priest of the Koshio Shrine with whom he had a close relationship.

He is said to have been born in Mikawa Province (present-day Aichi Prefecture), but in his prime he served in the Tsugaru Hirosaki Domain, handling tasks such as medicinal herb collection. Later he served in the Kubota Domain (Akita Prefecture) and remained there ever since

Among the many travelogues he wrote, many were about Akita Prefecture. In 1957, 89 volumes of his handwritten travelogue, "Masumi's Travelogue,"an Akita Prefecture Tangible Cultural Property, and in 1991,a National Important Cultural Propertythey were designated as

located in Terauchi, Akita City,The tomb of Sugae Masumi,in 1962Akita City's first historical sitein 2014an Akita Prefecture historical sitewas designated as

The day Cyborg 009 began serialization

, who was born in Ishimori-cho, Tome-gun, Miyagi Prefecture (now Ishimori, Nakada-cho, Tome City) and was hailed as the "King of Manga" and the "Emperor of Manga,Shotaro Ishinomorione of the representative works of"Cyborg 009,""July 19, 1964began serialization in "Weekly Shonen King" on

It was later serialized in several magazines, including Weekly Shonen Magazine, Monthly Shonen Jump, and Weekly Shonen Sunday

Since its serialization began in 1964, it has been adapted into various media formats intermittently for over 50 years, and as of October 2012, the total number of copies published has exceeded 10 million

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