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Procession with lanterns and main hall

Kuroishiji Somin Festival, which has brought the curtain down over 1,000 years of history | 2024 local report [Iwate Prefecture]

This year marks the end of the Kuroishiji Somin Festival's history of over 1,000 years has concluded. It has been a hot topic in various places since early on, but I can't just pass the ending without ever seeing it! That's...

AoiwaAoiwa2024.02.22

Approach to Nihonmatsu Shrine

Nihonmatsu Shrine, the main shrine of the former Nihonmatsu Domain, famous for its lantern festival [Fukushima Prefecture]

Nihonmatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture is located just halfway between Fukushima City and Koriyama City. Here, Nihonmatsu Shrine is famous for its Nihonmatsu lantern festival, which boasts a tradition of over 350 years. From Edo...

AoiwaAoiwa2024.02.19

Former Wakayanagi Station building

Experience driving the trains that were actually running at the Kuriden Museum! [Miyagi Prefecture]

Kuriden Museum (Kurihara Denen Railway Park) is a railway theme park located in Kurihara City, Miyagi Prefecture, which has been made public and has been kept in the public, with passenger cars and electric locomotives used by the former Kurihara Denen Railway...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.02.16

[Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture] The special effects town is hot! The god of special effects who created Ultraman...

Do you have any memories of how you were excited about the heroes who were active in television and films when you were young? This time we will introduce Sukagawa City, Fukushima Prefecture. Director Tsuburaya Eiji, known as the "God of Special Effects"...

Motoharu KahashiMotoharu Kahashi2024.02.14

The development of Akita City that began in Tsuchizaki - the soil at the mouth of the Omono River, which developed as the center of distribution...

At the mouth of the Omonogawa River, which flows through Akita City, is Akita Port, the largest trading port in Akita Prefecture. Akita Port is based on its land number Tsuchizaki Port (Tsuchizaki Minato), and it is derived from the old name Tsuchizaki Minato...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.02.12

Inuchi Ginzan, which supported the Akita Domain's finances. The coal mining town was filled with over 15,000 people [...

The Akita Domain (Kubota Domain) was a domain in which the Satake clan was almost the entire Akita Prefecture area, and the initial level of the stone was about 200,000 koku, but later increased to about 390,000 koku. The Yamagata Domain, also in the same Dewa Province (Yamagata Prefecture), was originally...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.02.09

Michitsune Mishima

Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, has completely changed its landscape due to Mishima Michiyo after the Meiji Restoration.

Yamagata City was developed as a castle town of the Yamagata Domain and was a commercial city that developed through the trade of the safflower, a specialty. Yamagata Castle, located in the center, is very large, and Sannomaru, which was on the outside, is about 235 hectares...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.02.07

The castle town of Kubota Castle since the Meiji period, which was hit by numerous major fires and changed [Autumn in Akita Prefecture...

Kubota Castle and castle towns, which were created through thorough urban planning by the Akita Domain (Kubota Domain), have lost most of the buildings due to frequent fires. Kubota Castle has been a Chiaki Park since the Meiji period...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.02.02

Yoshinobu Satake

The foundation of Akita City is the castle town of Kubota Castle, created by Satake Yoshinobu [Akita Prefecture]

Akita City's website states that "it commences in 1602, when Satake Yoshinobu was replaced by the country." Satake Yoshinobu came to Akita in 1602. ...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2024.01.26

[Series ⑦: The role of the first nine years and the role of the second three years] The bond between the Genji and Togoku warriors, 100 years of the Oshu Fujiwara clan...

Minamoto Yoshimitsu joined Minamoto Yoshimitsu from Kyo in order to save his brother from his difficulties. The Allied forces were impregnated at the time, Kanazawa fences (Kanezawa fences)...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2024.01.16

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