This is a pamphlet I wrote in 1991, revised and enhanced.
It was a study of then published software named "PageMaker".
I found .txt formatted files for "History", "01Central Area" and "02Sanaruko" in my HD.
Other files were saved in .pmd and there is no way to open them. I shall replace them with newer findings.
I will try to write them after Ando Hiroshige's "53 stations along Tokaido". People in older ages have no way than walk on their foot and this brings you of so many things than go on cars or shinkansen. If you walk on your feet, there are so many findings about what has changed from Hiroshige days and what don't cchange.
I feel happy if you copy and use it freely as a part or whole. I owe no responsibity from it's quotation.
7.1 2021
KOYAMA Keiichiro
〒430-0946
109-12 Motoshiro-cho
Hamamatusi
JAPAN
古山恵一郎
〒430-0946
浜松市元城町109-12
tel: 070-3140-1432
fax: 053-488-8433
e-mail:
ask@tcp-ip.or.jp
History
1 Central Area
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2 walk to Sanaruko
3 Imagire
4 Arai
5 Hashimoto
6 Washidu
7 Shiomizaka
8 Futagawa
9 Toyakawa
e1 Kakegawa
e2 Kotonomama
e3 Sagara
2-1. Fusai-ji and Seirai-in
2-2. History Museum
2-3. Sanaruko
2-4. Irino
2.Walk to Sanaruko
Rekishi-no-Sanpomichi ( Historic walk ) starts from the city office and reaching to the historical museum at the east side of Sanaruko.
2-1. Fusai-ji and Seirai-in
Rekishi-no-Sanpomichi will bring you to a valley which was once a moat of the castle.Through a tunnel, you will come to Hirosawa. Alas, beyond the tunnel is the back side of Fusai-ji. A fence stands in your way. If the lock is off, you can go through it to enter Fusai-ji with your Gaijin smile and pretend not to understand Japanese at all.
When Tokugwa Iyeyasu moved to Hamamatsu, he made Fosaiji his HQ.
Fusaiji founded by Kezo Gidon in 1432. Founder's teacher Kangan Giin was a royal family member who travelled to China to study Zen Buddhism buried here and the tomb is enshrined.
On Iyeyasu days, Britons and Spaniyards invaded India. Iyeyasu prepared fo Whites' invation. He enshrined Hindu Ḍākinī who had believed to "kill all white men at a grance". This is Kitayama Inari.
Going up the slope to the west out of Fusai-ji, you will come to Seirai-in. There is a main hall and the tomb of Tsukiyama-gozen at left of it. As a relative of Imagawa family who married to Tokugawa Iyeyasu, she forced to kill herself amid the conflict between Iyeyasu and Nobunaga later.
Tomb of Tsukiyama-gozen is called "Moon Cave"
Then the sampomichi will reach to Miutai kouen where a small shrine and a signboard which says that the area was once an inlet of the sea and a monster sea bass living here ate up the a son of fisherman.
Hirosawa has been the village of Sawa and its secluded location was loved by the rich at the turn of the century.
Those residences are now threatened by the sprawling cramped multi family "mansions" as the result of bureaucratic and money biased land use policies.
2-2. History Museum
On the hilltop lookign Snaruko is a shell mound and some ruins of houses.
This is Shijii Duka. Shijimi is a kind of fresh water shell and tsuka or duka means mound.
Beside the Shijimi-zuka ruins is the Museum of History.
There, a fisherman's house which was moved from the bank of Hamanako is restored and reserved beside those prehistoric dwellings.
This Takayama house expresses the simple life of the old countryside. It may be said that the Wabi and Sabi of the Cha-no-yu were originated in respect for such life style.
2-3. Sanaruko
Our country has long been owing to the Chinese civilization. Chinese is the Latin to our artists in writing and painting. As for the landscape, the Chinese school thought that of China to be ideal. Takemura Hirokage, a 19th ccentury artisan comparing the landscape of Sanaruko to that of Tung Ting Hu, Hu Nan wrote "Eight Scenes of Sanaruko" in 1828. Among those are "Admiring the Moon at Rinko-ji" and "Wild geese flying over Ohta".
2-4. Irino
Irino is an old community south of Sanaruko, along Yuto-Kaido and embanking the waters of Hamanako. It is said that they used to fish sea bass untill the early 19th century here. They make green hedges around the houses all over the counryside of Enshu to guard against the strong northwesterly winds of the winter. You can see a beautiful example of such green hedge made of hosoba; podocarps macrophilla just behind the housing row on the south side of Yuto Kaido.
3 Imagire