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Nagayamon and Akuwa Historic Site Course

Last Updated April 10, 2020

Nagayamon Park, where you can explore the history and nature left in Seya, has a history experience zone centered on old private houses that retain the remnants of the Edo period, and a nature observation zone centered on forests and walking paths. This course invites you to a journey of history, including Tomb Mountain, the grave of the Ando family, the lord of Akuwa, the oldest shrine in Seya Ward, Kumano Shrine, and the ruins of Okubohara Jomon.

Nagayamon / Akuwa Historic Site Course Map

Nagayamon / Akuwa Historic Site Course Map


Highlights of Nagayamon and Akuwa Historic Site Course

List of Highlights
Name of historic sites, etc.Information
Shirahime Shrine

 In 1909 (1909), a shrine was founded in Akuwa, worshiping the god of clothing at the outer shrine of Ise Grand Shrine, and whose body was the god of silkworms. At that time, the village was active in the sericulture and silk industry.
 Later, with the decline of the sericulture and silk industry, it was relocated to its current location in 1957 as a god of the Mitsukyo district. Since then, he has been worshiping as the god of clothing and the god of kimono.

Photographs of Shirahime Shrine

Sendano (Futatsu Bridge Park)

 In 1596 (1596), it is a place name derived from the collection of Kaya Senda (1 ta is the cargo of one horse) used for the roof of the Fujisawa Goten (the palace of the Tokugawa Shogunate).
 The area from the current Futatsu Bridge Park to Seya Public Works Office.

Photo of Sendano (Futatsu Bridge Park)

Nagayamon Park

 There is a history experience zone and a nature observation zone, which opened in 1992 (1992).
 When you enter the Nagaya Gate built in the middle of the Meiji era, there is an old private house from the late Edo era, where hearths, furnaces, agricultural equipment, etc. are preserved, and you can enjoy the atmosphere of the time. In the nature observation zone, you can enjoy spring water, cedar forest, and seasonal flowers.

Photographs of Nagayamon Park

Kumano Shrine

 The forest around the Heian period is considered a sacred place, and it is said that the company was built during the North and South Dynasties. In the Edo period, the lord Ando family of Akuwa protected and prospered, and the current shrine was built in 1873 (1873) and is decorated with numerous sculptures.
 Every year at the festival on September 19, a priest performs Yudate Kagura.

Photographs of Kumano Shrine

Mt. grave

 It is called "Tomb Mountain" because it is the Ando family grave of the lord of Akuwa Hagimoto during the Edo period. There are tombs of the 3rd lord, Shojin, the 4th lord, and the ancestral monument of the first lord, Shoji.
 Shoji's ancestral monument states, "Shoji took a deep hand in the summer camp of Osaka and cut himself at the dormitory Ganshoji in the Osaka Plain."

Photograph of Mount Tomb

O-Kubohara Jomon Site

 In this plateau, pieces of pottery have been discovered for a long time, and pottery pots from the late Jomon period have been excavated in the early Showa period.
 This archeological site was registered with the Agency for Cultural Affairs and was named the Okubohara Jomon archeological site. From March 1977 (1977), members and volunteers of the Association to Know the History of Seya Ward conducted excavations, confirming pottery from the middle and late Jomon period and the remains of late Jomon period dwellings.

Photographs of the O-Kubohara Jomon Site


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