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 change.
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
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History
1 Central Area
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2 walk to Sanaruko
3 Imagire
4 Arai
5 Hashimoto
6 Washidu
7 Shiomizaka
8 Futagawa
e1 Kakegawa
e2 Kotonomama
e3 Sagara
8 Futagawa
Hirosige shows some travelers blown in the wind. This had been Futagawa in YedoJidai.
East from here to Okazaki is the highest place in thr TakashiYama hills. Not good foe agricultural land use without sufficient river water.
Then came the railway in 1893. Map below in 1890 based on the preliminary study of the railway. Agricultural reservoirs are seen.
Railway made Futagawa regional center for the export of produce from nearby communities and incoming modern product.
Old Tokaido reaching Shiomizaka to the south-east from Futagawa though, railway runs to the east to Washidu stopping at ShinjoHara at the west of the highest point of TakashiYama.
Today, shinkansen runs between Old Tokaido and 1893 railway toward the direction of Arai.
As the trasnportation means changed from railway to cargo trucks, land without sufficient agricultural river fits to the industrial land use.
Futagawa had a Honjin:lodging facility for Lords in YedoJidai.
Just behind Honjin run both 1893railway and shinkansen.
There is a Shinto shrine with a statue of a horse recruited by the army in 1904/5 Japan-Russian war. Futagawa was a center of horse transportation over TakasiYama.
Track of 1893Rialway cut about 10m into ground at the highest point of Takasiyama.
This is the place where ex-samurai refgee began farming without sufficient water resourses.
There are old wind hedges of hosoba. May be 150 years old protecting farming samurais from the strong gust.
You can imagin those days in a windy day.
TateIwa is a rock protruding atop TakashiYama at the border between Mikawa and Enshu.
3 Imagire
4 Arai
5 Hashimoto
6 Washidu
7 Shiomizaka
8 Futagawa