4/10/2007

Tsuyama Town

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Tsuyama, a Castle Town 津山市

The modern city was founded on February 11, 1929.
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Tsuyama Castle

It took Lord Moori 13 years to have the castle constructed, and it was finally finished in 1616. But in 1874 it was destroyed. Now we can still enjoy the stonewalls with 1000 cherry blossoms in spring. A new white watchtower was finished two years ago.




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Shuraku-En Garden (Shuurakuen 聚楽園)
This lovely park was built in 1657 by the second feudal lord of Tsuyama, Mori Nagatsugu

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petals on the pond
a few more, a few less
as the wind blows




dragon branches -
reaching for new horizons
in the old sky



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Chiyo Inari Shrine 千代稲荷神社



Inari Shrine -
even the Fox God
wears blossoms


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Carp Streamers in Tsuyama, Miyagawa River

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Temple Kokubun-Ji 国分寺



Click on the thumbnail. Photos from here to # 36.


so simple and small -
some blue stars
by the roadside



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Tsuyama Execution Ground of the Edo Period
With an article on Kubizuka, mound for a cut-off head !


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Merchant Homes along the Izumo Road of Tsuyama Town



Kawasaki Hachiman Shrine 川崎八幡神社


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PHOTO ALBUM TSUYAMA
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Izumo Kaido, The Old Road of Izumo 出雲街道

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External LINK

http://www.tsuyama-ct.ac.jp/English/tsuyama/sightsee.htm


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Royall mentions Minamoto no Yoshiie. It was his father Yoriyoshi who built the first Hachiman shrine in Kamakura after suppressing the rebellion of Abe Sadato, "inviting the spirits" (if that is how we translate 勧請) of Iwashimizu Hachiman to a site in Kamakura in the year 1063.

This was in Yui District, an area now called Zaimokuza, to the west of the central Wakamiya oji. His son Yoshiie (Hachiman Taro) had the shrine repaired in 1081.

And of course it was their
descendant Yoritomo who moved the Hachiman shrine to its present
position, creating Tsurugaoka Hachimangu. The old shrine is now
called Moto Hachiman or Yui Wakamiya.

"Tsurugi no maki" and the whole Hachiman / Genji question is well
treated in:
Elizabeth Oyler, _Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring
Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan (Hawaii, 2006).

http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/

Gabi Greve - WKD said...

Tsuyama Town Festivals

津山市の祭り