History and travel records

The Kamanashi River, which flows in from the northwest and originates from Mt. Nokogiri at the northern end of the Southern Alps, and the...

Heijo-kyo was originally built as an eternal capital, but Emperor Kanmu moved the capital to Nagaoka-kyo 74 years later, and to Heian-kyo...

The Shosoin documents are kept in the Shosoin Repository of Todaiji Temple, but on the back of the paper used for the ledger was written...

I think there are quite a lot of people who collect stamps from the 100 Great Castles of Japan, but for people living in Honshu, it is...

The name Chofu comes from the tax system under the Ritsuryo system, the tax system of "so-yo-cho". Cho was a tax on textile products and...

I took my parents to Yamashiro Onsen, taking advantage of the opportunity of my high school reunion. We went to Wakura last year, but the...

Speaking of Fukaya, it is green onions or Shibusawa Eiichi, who is on the new 10,000 yen bill. It has already been three years since...

Last year, during the Obon week, I rushed around the five of 100 Famous Castles and another 100 Famous Castles in Okinawa, but this year,...

The province with Lake Biwa, close to Kyoto, was called Omi, while the western part of Shizuoka prefecture, with Lake Hamana, far away,...

I've always wanted to go to the Sannai-Maruyama ruins, and there are many options for travel from Tokyo to Aomori, including the...

During the Kamakura period, successive heads of the Ashikaga clan usually married off to Hojo clan members and made their children the...

The former Iwatsuki City was merged into Saitama City (Urawa, Omiya, and Yono cities were already merged in 2001) in 2005, and is now...

It's been nine years since I last visited the two local national treasure pagodas (the octagonal three-story pagoda of Anraku-ji Temple...

When you think of Goryokaku, you think of Hakodate Goryokaku, but there is also a small Goryokaku in Saku City, Nagano Prefecture. From...

Although I had been there before on a local tour, I decided to take a look around the highlights again. The layout of the old provinces...

In 1557 (Kōji 3), Motonari sent the "Letter of Instruction for the Three Sons" to his three sons (Takamoto, Motoharu, and Takakage),...

Emperor Go-Daigo was a man of honor and praise, and there are various opinions, but I believe that he at least had a strong sense of...

I had the opportunity to go to Niigata and toured the castle towns of Shibata, Murakami in the Kaetsu area. Both are experiencing a boom...

If you drive west on the Meishin Expressway, you will come across many historic sites that will make you want to get off along the way....

There are many hidden spots that are close by but that I rarely have the opportunity to visit, and I recently visited the homes of two...