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Little Hira
This hiking trail was created through the volunteer efforts of the Takashima Mountaineering Club, and has been used extensively for events such as the Prefectural Athletic Meet, the Inter-High School Athletic Meet, and the National Athletic Meet. As its name suggests, it is a small trail, but has its own unique character, and is clean and quiet. Along the way…
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White Beard Festival (Naruko Mairi)
This is the annual festival of Shirahige Shrine, the oldest shrine in Omi. The shrine's annual festival is held every year on May 5rd and September 3th and 9th, but the Shirahige Festival refers to the autumn annual festival, during which a Shinto ritual called "Naruko Mairi" is held. The history of "Naruko Mairi" is long, dating back to the Edo period...
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Omizo Festival
This is the spring festival of Hiyoshi Shrine, and is the largest float festival in the Kosai region. Currently, the eve of the festival is held on May 5rd, the main festival on the 3th, and the after-festival on the 4th. This festival is held by five districts in Katsuno, each with their own name: Minato, Tomoe, Takara, Isami, and Ryo.
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Former Omizo Castle Town
In the Edo period (1619), Wakebe Mitsunobu was transferred from Ueno Castle in Ise to Omizo with a fief of XNUMX koku. Since the castle had fallen into disrepair, he devoted himself to the construction of the castle town. The plan was to block distant views of urban warfare by running a river through the middle of the street...
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Shiko Sakura Monument
In the corner just before Hagi Beach, there is a 3m tall stone monument called Shiko Sakura. It was erected to commemorate the deaths of members of the rowing club of the former Fourth High School (now Kanazawa University) who died in a shipwreck off the coast of Hagi Beach on April 16, 4.
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Monument to Murasaki Shikibu's poem
"In the sea of Mio, the people are pulling nets, and I am longing for the capital." This poem was written by Murasaki Shikibu, the author of "The Tale of Genji," when she passed through this area. In 2, during the Heian period, her father, Fujiwara no Tametoki, became the governor of Echizen and set sail...
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Monument to the poems of Tekkan Yosano and Akiko
"Before the god of Shirahige, I am a shining star, and by marrying this, mankind will be purified." The stone monument in the grounds of Shirahige Shrine is inscribed with the poem by Tekkan and Akiko, the leading couple of poets of the "Myojo" school. Tekkan Yosano was born in 6 at Ganjoji Temple in Kyoto, and from a young age...
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Man'yoshu Poetry Monument
The Nishi-Omi Road was opened early on as the shortest route connecting Yamato and the Hokuriku region, and was an important transportation route for government officials and travelers who were posted to the distant Hokuriku region. There are several poems left by Man'yoshu poets who write about their travels on Takashima Island on their way back and forth between the capital and the Hokuriku region. ■…
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Ukawa 48 Stone Buddha Statues
If you turn onto the old Nishi-Omi road on National Route 161 near Shirahigehama and head north, you will see a group of 1.6m-tall granite statues of Amida Nyorai in a cemetery in the grassy mountains. These Buddha statues were built by Sasaki Rokkaku, the lord of Kannonji Castle (present-day Azuchi-cho) in the late Muromachi period…
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Grave of Kondo Juzo (Zuisetsu-in Temple)
It is located in the graveyard of Zuisetsu-in Temple, a Rinzai sect temple of the Tofukuji school, about 500 meters west of JR Omi-Takashima Station. Kondo Juzo (1771-1829) was an explorer of the Northern Territories in the late Edo period, and was known for his explorations of Kunashiri Island, Etorofu Island, and Ezo…
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