. Kaido 街道 Highways - ABC Index .
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Miyagi Prefecture and Kaido Highway Legends
. Kaido 街道と伝説 Legends about the old Kaido highways .
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みやぎ県南浜街道（宮城県) Miyagi Kennan Hamakaido
Kaido along the coast in South Miyagi
- reference source : japanecotrack.net... -
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宮城県の旧街道と宿場町名 Postal stations along the old Kaido in Miyagi
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. Miyagi Hama Kaido 浜街道 coastal road .
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......................................................................................... Aramakiyama Kaido 荒巻山街道
. Aramaki no Monju 荒巻の文殊 Aramaki no Monju Bosatsu .
......................................................................................... Azuma Kaido 東街街道 "Eastern Highway"
仙台周辺の古道 Old Roads around Sendai
The Azuma Kaido was built in 719 along the coast, from Sendai to 常陸 Hitachi. It was 官道 an official road for government officials. But it was abolished in 811 according to the Nihon Goki redords 日本後紀.
In 1189, 源頼朝 Minamoto no Yoritomo used it again, bringing his army to 奥州 Oshu, also used by 千葉常胤 Chiba Tsunetane (1118 - 1201).
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Not to mix with the 海 "Eastern Coastal Road"
. Tokaido 東海道 Tōkaidō .
kitsune 狐 fox
In 仙台市 Sendai there lived a foot soldier called 勝又弥左衛門 Katsumata Yazaemon. He was famous for catching foxes.
Once he was at the foot of 榴ヶ岡 Tsutsujigaoka along the Azuma Kaido. There lived anold fox who took the chicken from farmers and played tricks to travelers.
On orders from the local government Yazaemon had to kill this fox.
Yazaemon was in mourning for his late father (and there fore should not do this), but the governor came many times. Yozaemon consulted with his friend, a priest who told him he should not kill during the 49 daya after this father's death.
The priest then took him out for a drink and ate quite a lot, much more than usual. Yazaemon found this suspicious, went outside and placed a trap near the door.
When the priest went home, he got caught in the trap.
The fox/priest had tried to out-do a human, but was caught none the less.
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
......................................................................................... Hippo Kaido 筆甫街道
伊具郡 丸森町 Hippo Marumori, Igu District, Miyagi / ひっぽ村 Hippo village
bateiseki 馬蹄石 stone with imprints of a horse hoof
When Jigaku Daishi rode along the Hippo Kaido toward 不動滝 the Fudo Waterfall he rode on a white horse and jumped over the river.
Water collecting in the imprint of the hooves is said to heal illness of the eyes.
- reference source and more photos: zuiunzi.net/igu... -
. Ennin - Jigaku Daishi 慈覚大師 / 慈覺大師 (794 – 864) .
. 駒場滝不動尊 Komabataki Waterfall and Fudo Myo-O .
- Temple 愛敬院 Aikyo-In / 宮城県伊具郡丸森町字不動 / Kamidakinishi, Marumori, Igu District, Miyagi
. hakuba 白馬と伝説 Legends about a white horse .
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Marumori no Tateishi 丸森の立石 "Standing Rock" of Marumori
About 2 km South-East of the center of Marumori town.
The rock is about 12,5 m high and has a diameter of 25 m. Legend knows that 安倍貞任 Abe no Sadato (1019 – 1062) stood on this rock.
There are also many earthware relics from the 弥生 Yayoi period.
This rock can be seen from the Hippo Highway all the way up to the waterfall.
......................................................................................... Ishinomaki Kaido 石巻街道
From Sendai castle to Ishinomaki city.
It was not used for Sankin Kotai, but for the transportation of goods.
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Rifu 利府
Matsushima 松島
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Ishinomaki (石巻市, Ishinomaki-shi)
- History
The area of present-day Ishinomaki was part of ancient Mutsu Province. During the Sengoku period, the area was contested by various samurai clans before the area came under the control of the Date clan of Sendai Domain during the Edo period. The town prospered as a major port and transshipment center for coastal shipping between Edo and northern Japan. The town of Ishinomaki was established within Oshika District on June 1, 1889 with the establishment of the modern municipalities system.
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Matsuo Basho, Oku no Hosomichi
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........................................................................................ Iwadeyama Kaido 岩出山街道
Iwadeyama is a town located in Tamatsukuri District,
On March 31, 2006, Iwadeyama, along with the city of Furukawa, the town of Naruko (also from Tamatsukuri District), the towns of Kashimadai, Matsuyama and Sanbongi (all from Shida District), and the town of Tajiri (from Tōda District), was merged to create the city of Ōsaki. Tamatsukuri District and Shida District
天正19年（1591年） - 伊達政宗が米沢城から本拠を移し、地名を岩手沢から岩出山に改める。
慶長8年（1603年） - 政宗が仙台城へ移ると、政宗の四男・宗泰が岩出山城主となり、以後幕末に至るまで宗泰の家系が岩出山を治める（岩出山伊達氏）。
- wikipedia
新八明神 Deity Shinpachi Myojin
Shinpachi was the second son of a farmer working for the Samurai 白石運三郎 Shiroishi Unsaburo. He worked diligently.
The wife of his older brother was quite a villain and was bad to her stepfather.
Around 1815, his sister-in-law prepared 大師講の団子 dumplings for the Daishi rituals and put some needles in them.
When Shinpachi offered a dumpling to his father, the needle stuck out. The sister-in-law went to the daikan 代官 assistant deputy governor and accused Shinpachi for having tried to kill his father. Shinpachi tried to cover for his sister-in-law, did not tell the truth and was executed as punishment.
Before he died he said: "If my head falls to the north when cut off, I am innocent and will curse you!"
Soon after that the family of Shinpachi fell into ruin.
The villagers erected a memorial stone for him along the Iwadeyama Highway near the river 花川 Hanakawa with the inscription "Shinpachi Myojin".
陸奥上街道 Mutsu Kami-Kaido
One of the 奥州街道 Oshu Kaido Highways.
Connecting 岩手県 Iwate prefecture
Ichinoseki 一関
with 宮城県 Miyagi prefecture
Kurikoma 栗駒 (栗原市 Kurihara city)
Masaka 真坂
Iwadeyama 岩出山 （大崎市 Osaki city）
. 松尾芭蕉 Matsuo Basho visiting Iwadeyama .
......................................................................................... Kakuda Kaido 角田街道
角田市 Kakuda city - in southeastern Miyagi. The Abukuma River flows through the city.
亘理町 Watari
The area of present-day Watari was part of ancient Mutsu Province, and the place name of “Watari” appears in the Shoku Nihongi chronicles dated 718 AD.
It was part of the holdings of Sendai Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.
. kataha no ashi, kataba no ashi 片葉の芦 One-sided Reed .
and the legend of Kamakura Kagemasa 鎌倉景正.
Miyagi Otogi Kaido 宮城おとぎ街道 Fairy Tale Highway
宮城県の新観光街道
みちのくおとぎ街道 / ガッタリ花街道 / 宮城おとぎ街道 / 角田市
- reference source : tatu05060506.webcrow.jp... -
みちのくおとぎ街道 Michinoku Otogi Kaido
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......................................................................................... Kawasaki Kaido 川崎街道
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- - - - - things to see on the way :
01 川崎城址 Kawasaki castle remains
02 圓長山円福寺 Enpukuji
03 滝前不動のフジ Takimaefudo no fuji
04 笹谷街道の松並木 Sasaya Kaido - see below
05 逆銀杏 upside-down Gingko tree
06 青根御殿 Aone hot spring
07 野鳥の森自然公園 Nojima park
08 古賀政男歌碑 Koga Masao memorial stone
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柴田郡 Shibata district 村田町 Murata town
hisamesaka 火雨坂 / ヒサメサカ the slope Hisamesaka "rain like fire"
This slope is on the Kawasaki Kaido.
Once upon a time rain like fire came falling from the sky. It made many small holes into the rocks on the slope.
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onibaba 鬼婆 demon hag
To the West of 秋保温泉 the hot spring in 安達ヶ原 Adachigahara near 長袋 Nagafukuro hamlet there is a rock called 鬼婆の窯岩 "the Kiln Rock of the Mountain Hag".
This is the place where 平兼盛 Taira no Kanemori (? - 991) wrote the poem:
みちのくの安達ヶ原の黒塚 Michinoku no Adachigahara no kurozuka - the Black Mound
. 安達が原の鬼女伝説 Legend of the Demon Hag of Adachigahara .
and Matsuo Basho visiting there on his Oku no Hosomichi.
. onibaba 鬼婆 demon hag from Kawasaki .
......................................................................................... Kiso Kaido 木曾街道 / 木曽街道
仙台市 Sendai city 青葉区 Aoba
- Kiso Kaido is another name for the
. Nakasendo 中山道 Nakasendo Highway .
munewari Amida 胸割り阿弥陀 Amida with a cut breast
Once upon a time
A priest from the temple 充国寺 Jukoku-Ji in Sendai, Aoba was on his way back from Kyoto along the Kiso Highway. Suddenly a robber attacked him, but a tree at the roadside fell down and killed the robber. The priest could not forget the piercing look of hatred of the man. When he was back at his temple, a baby had been born to a family of his parish and he went there for a blessing. He picked up the baby and when he looked at his face, it had exactly the expression of the robber on the highway. The priest was so afraid, he killed the baby.
Therefore he was to be executed and take to 七北田刑場 the execution ground in Nanakita. When the executioners came to pick him up, all the 小僧 little temple acolytes cried as they sent him off. They went back to the main hall . . . as there was a lound sound of something crashing.
The statue of Amida had a cut right through the breast !
source : legend.main.jp/50-aobaku-008-munewariamida...
They sent the statue back to Kyoto to have it repaired, but when it was brought back the breast was cut again.
The statue could not be repaired and so it remained cut.
七北田刑場 the execution ground in Nanakita
- - - - - There is another story about Amida no munewari 阿弥陀胸割
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Amida’s Riven Breast
R. Keller Kimbrough
Amida's Riven Breast (Amida no munewari) is classified as a ko-jōruri shōhon, but is also known to have been performed as sekkyō by Tenma Hachidayū and to be thematically consistent with the sekkyō of its time. This Buddhist tale is divided into six acts, the third act of which contains a battle scene. In Amida no munewari, the siblings Teirei and Tenju lose their parents at the ages of five and seven. Then when the brother Teirei is ten years old, he proposes to his elder sister that they sell themselves as slaves to a rich man. Tenju is eventually saved by her Buddhist devotion.
The story emphasizes the necessity of dan haramitsu practice of engaging religious professionals.
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......................................................................................... Oshu Kaido 奥州街道
柴田町 Shibata town - A postal station along the Oshu Highway.
. koromo no seki 衣ノ関 the gate of the robe (of Ono no Komachi) .
......................................................................................... Sasaya Kaido 笹谷街道
柴田郡 Shibata district 川崎町 Kawasaki town
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10 六地蔵八丁平には鶏亀地蔵のほか、法印・地持・宝性・法性・陀羅尼の各地蔵が、遭難者の慰霊と道しるべとして、約80ｍおきにある。
kesagake Jizoo 袈裟掛地蔵 Jizo with a priests Kesa robe
Along the Sasaya Highway at the entry to Sasaya town there was 大入道 a large Nyudo monster coming out at night frightening the people.
The famous Samurai 三尺左五平 Sanshaku Sagohei from Sendai fought with him one night and cut his Kesa.
When they looked next morning, the Kesa of the Jizo statue was cut.
. Oonyuudoo 大入道 The O-Nyudo Monster .
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yamabushi 山伏 mountain priest
Once upon a time
on the Northern side of the river 名取川 Natorigawa, threr was a large enoki 大榎 nettle tree in the middle of the fields along the Sasaya Highway. It was a hinderance for the farmers and they decided to cut it down. But the next morning the site of the cut was healed and the tree back.
One day a huge Yamabushi came along, pulled the nettle tree out and carried it away.
Since then the field is called
一木田 "field with one tree" or 人来田 Hitokita.
......................................................................................... Sekiyama Kaido 関山街道
connecting 宮城県仙台市 Sendai, Miyagi and 山形県東根市 Higashine city in Yamagata
- reference source : sendai-oldlocal-histry... -
関山街道を宮城側では「関山越最上街道」called Sekiyama Kaido in Miyagi、
山形側では「仙台街道」called Sendai Kaido in Yamagata.
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niwatoribashi 鶏橋 "rooster bridge"
A bridge over a gorge along the Sekiyama Kaido.
Every night a rooster came to sit on the rail and called out.
The bird came from the Osaki Hachiman Shrine, where it has taken life from a painting on an ema 絵馬 votive tablet.
They bound the votive tablet with metal ropes. But soon after that there was a great flooding, deatroying homes and killing people.
The bridge was now called "rooster bridge".
. 大崎八幡宮 Osaki Hachiman Shrine .
Dewa Sendai Kaido 出羽仙台街道
from Sendai to Sakata in Yamagata / Nakayamagoe 中山越 and 尿前 Shitomae
Also called
Dewa Kaido 出羽街道
From Miyagi 宮城県 to Yamagata 山形県.
Passing
吉岡 Yoshioka/中新田 Naka-Niida/岩出山 Iwadeyama/尿前 Shitomae/鍛冶 Kaji/谷沢 Tanizawa/川渡 Kawatabi/東鳴子 Higashi-Naruko/鳴子 Naruko/中山平 Nakayamadaira/堺田 Sakaida/赤倉 Akakura/最上 Mogami
猿沢宿 Sarusawa Station (新潟県朝日村 Niigata Asahi village)
Kita Uzen Kaido 北羽前街道 Northern Uzen Highway
. Shitomae no Seki 尿前の関 Barrier of Shitomae .
奥の細道 Oku no Hosomichi, Matsuo Basho and the Dewagoe 出羽越え crossing over to Dewa
. Ugo Kaido 羽後街道 Ugo Highway .
. Onikobe Kaido 鬼首街道 Onikobe Highway - "Demon Head Highway" .
......................................................................................... Shiogama Kaido 塩釜街道
. Shiogama Kaido 塩釜街道 Shiogama Highway .
from Shiogama to Tagajo / 多賀城市 Tagajo city 市川 Ichikawa and on to Sendai.
ekibyoo 疫病 epidemic disease
tsubo no ishibumi at Tateishi 壷の碑を立石
Along the Shiogama Highway on the Western side of the remains of Tagajo castle there is a stone memorial that has fallen down, called
fuseishi, fuse ishi 伏せ石. People tried to erect it again, but usually it falls down soon and an epidemic will start.
".. it was nothing short of a miracle that this monument alone had survived the battering of a thousand years to be the living memory of the ancients."
. Matsuo Basho and Tsubo no Ishibumi .
......................................................................................... Shizugawa Kaido 志津川街道
本吉郡 Motoyoshi district 南三陸町 Minami-Sanriku town 五駄鱈 Gondatara
宮城県気仙沼市赤岩五駄鱈 Sendai Akaiwa Godantara
志津川町 Shizugawa-chō was a town located in Motoyoshi District, Miyagi.
On October 1, 2005, Shizugawa, along with the town of Utatsu (also from Motoyoshi District) was united to create the town of Minamisanriku,
source : env.go.jp/water/heisa...
- 志津川湾 map of Shizugsawa bay
gondara 五駄鱈 / ゴンダラ Gondara (Gondatara)
Once upon a time
in the town of 折立 Oritate along the Shizugawa High way near a small river there was the estate of a rich man. He had a beautiful daughter and many young men came to see her.
But the daughter became haggard and when they asked her nanny they found out what happened.
One evening they stuck a needle in the seam of her sleeve and then the family checked next morning they found blood stains leading to the small river. The river was bloody until its estuary and there lay a huge tara 鱈 cod fish. They needed goda 五駄 five horse loads to carry it and called this amazing fish
五駄鱈(ゴンダラ) Gondara.
The daughter threw herself into the river to kill herself and the river was called
dokugawa 毒川 poisonous river.
Since then the cod never came up the small river, but could be caught early in the neighbourhood of Oritate
......................................................................................... Toho Kaido 東方街道 Higashikata Kaido
白井市 Shiroi city 新館町 Shindate cho town - 東方 Higashikata
wazawai o nasu tochi 禍をなす土地 a plot of land that brings disaster
Along the Toho Kaido on the border between Shiroishi city and 大平村 Taihei village there was a plot of farmland called nanchi 難地(ナンチ) "difficult land".
The former owner of this land had a lot of misfortune in his family and finally died of illness. After his death the family became very poor
During 天保飢饉 the great famine of Tenpo (1833 - 1837) the land was used to bury the dead.
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宮城県 Miyagi 気仙沼市 Kesennuma
. 儀八郎 Gihachiro and the monster cat .
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