History and travel records

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...

Now that the expressways are connected, the quickest route back to Kanazawa from Tokyo is to cross Myoko on the Nagano Expressway and...

There are only 18 ancient stone monuments in Japan, but three of them (Tago Monument, Yamanoue Monument, and Kanaizawa Monument) are...

As I mentioned in the article about Yasukage Amano, the lord of Kokokuji Castle, I visited the ending place of Oguri Kozukenosuke in...

Suwa has good hot springs, and the sake is delicious, so I often stayed there as a stopover when driving back and forth from my parents'...

The area that was once called Hatara County in Musashi Province now consists of Fukaya City and Kumagaya City. Even so, Japan has largely...

I had never visited Izusan Shrine, where Yoritomo Minamoto and Masako Hojo met, so I visited it when I went to a hot spring inn in Atami....

Although it is a mild winter, it is still cold. The Kanto Plain has almost exhausted all the places I went on a sunny day, but there are...

Last year, I visited too early and the leaves were a bit noticeably green, but this year I was able to visit in the last week of...

At the time, we were acquiring large-scale shale gas development projects and frequently traveled back and forth to Canada. The town...

This is a story about Earth history, not Japanese history. I was once involved in a project to export Canadian shale gas, which boasts...