8/04/2019

Akiba Kaido Highway

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Akiba Kaido 秋葉街道 Akiba Highway
遠信古道 Enshu Kodo

Now mostly along the National Hiahway 152.
信州街道 Shinshu Kaido in Shizuoka.


source : tohyamago.com/experience/akibakaidou...

This road is related to the belief in the deity
. Akibagongen 秋葉権現 Akiba Gongen .

It is also related to
. shio no mich 塩の道 the Salt Road .
120 km long and connected the Sea of Japan at Itoigawa 糸魚川 in Niigata (Echigo) with Matsumoto 松本.



Akiba michi 秋葉道


"Southenr Salt" 南塩 from 相良 Sagara (in Enshu, now Shizuoka) was transported to 諏訪湖 Lake Suwako and Nagano.
In Shizuoka the road was called 信州街道 Shinshu Kaido (信濃街道 Shinano Kaido)
connecting Sagara with 長野県飯田市 Iida city in Nagano
via 牧之原台地 Makinohara Daichi, 掛川 Kakegawa (crossing the Tokaido), 森 Mori and 春野 Haruno, along 天竜川沿 the river Tenryugawa and 秋葉山 Mount Akibasan.
crossing the pass 青崩峠 Aokuzure Toge into Nagano. and via the pass 小川路峠 Ogawaji Toge to Iida city.


Yanagida Kunio used to call the road also
諏訪路 Suwa ji or 遠山通り Toyama-dori.




Akiba kodoo 秋葉古道 old pilgrim road of Akiba


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In 浜松市 Hamamatsu city was the famous Shrine
秋葉神社 Akiha Jinja (Akiba Jinja)

秋葉山本宮秋葉神社(あきはさん ほんぐう あきはじんじゃ)Akiha san Hongu Akiha Jinja
静岡県浜松市天竜区春野町領家 / Harunocho Ryoke



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The Akihasan Hongū Akiha Jinja (秋葉山本宮秋葉神社) is a Shinto shrine in Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu (the former town of Haruno in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan). The shrine is located near the summit of Mount Akiha, on the southern slopes of the Akaishi Mountains. It is the head shrine of the 800 Akiha shrines around the country.
The main festival of the shrine
is held annually over three nights in December, and features ceremonies using huge flares and other fireworks.
The primary kami of Akibasan Hongū Akiba Jinja is the Hinokagutsuchi-no-Okami (火之迦具土大神), the kami associated with protection against fires. During the Edo period, this kami was popularly called the Akiha Gongen (秋葉権現) and was identified with Kannon Bosatsu under the Shinbutsu shūgō system of combined Buddhism and Shinto.
... Per shrine tradition, the Akibasan Hongū Akiha Jinja was established in 701 as a Buddhist temple by the famed priest Gyōki. It was named Akiha-dera (秋葉寺) from a poem written by Emperor Saga in 709. During the Heian period it became a center for the Shugendō cult and was associated with the Shingon sect, although much of its subsequent history is uncertain.
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- - - - - A legend from the Shinano Kaido 信濃街道

群馬県 Gunma 前橋市 Maebashi city 亀里町 Kamesato town

otooka no yome-iri オトウカの嫁取り Otoka the fox gets a bride
On a rainy ebening, the fox Otoka who lived in the back of the temple 極楽寺 Gokuraku-Ji was seen walking along the Shinano Highway with a procession carrying lanterns.
When they reached the large cedar tree near the shool, they suddenly became invisible.


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