Akamagaseki Karatsu Kaido highways

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Akamagaseki Kaido, Akama Seki Kaido 赤間関街道 Akamagaseki Highway
Akama Kaido 赤間街道 Akama Highway
From Shimonoseki to Akiragi (near Hagi)　 Mostly in Yamaguchi 山口県
About 140 km.

part of it is called
中道筋 Nakamichi Suji

- Places of interest on the way -
Akiragi town 明木
Yokoze 横瀬
Hibari Toge pass 雲雀峠
Edo town 絵堂
Shimo no Tao 下の垰(しものたお)
Okubo dai 大久保台
Akiyoshi Cho Town 秋吉町
Kawahara 河原
Shirogahara 四郎ヶ原
Mine town 美祢
Shiomi Toge pass 塩見峠
Kami-Sadatsune 上貞恒
Shimonoseki Yoshida town 下関吉田

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This road has been used by the Bakumatsu heroes of the region:
. Yoshida Shōin 吉田松陰 Yoshida Shoin . - (1830 - 1859)
and
. Takasugi Shinsaku 高杉晋作 . - (1839 – 1867)

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Hibari Toge pass 雲雀峠

Shiomi Toge pass 塩見峠

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Mine (美祢市 Mine-shi) is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture
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- Akiyoshidai Quasi-National Park,
which includes the Akiyoshidai (秋吉台 Akiyoshi plateau) and Japan’s longest cave, the Akiyoshido (秋芳洞), the latter of which is designated a Special Natural Monument. Akiyoshidai is served by a natural history museum, visitor center, rest house, youth hostel and park headquarters building, and is traversed by a scenic roadway and several walking trails. Events include a fireworks festival in July, a “Karst Walk” in November, and an annual burning off of dry grasses in February called “Yamayaki”.
- Akiyoshido, Akiyoshido (秋芳洞).
Towards the southern end of Akiyoshidai is the Akiyoshido cave, named by Emperor Hirohito on May 30, 1926 when he was still crown prince. This spacious cave is up to 100 meters wide and has 8.79 kilometers of passages, making it the longest in Japan and one of the longest in Asia. At the present time an approximately one-kilometer-long section of the cave is open to the public as a sightseeing course, with a walkway and bridge system, entering at the cave's lowest point and exiting via an artificial elevator. This portion of the cave is also well decorated with a variety of large and colorful speleothems.
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. Zenji Kappa 禅師河童 Kappa the Zen Teacher .
Once upon a long time
in the region of the cave 秋芳洞 Akiyoshido in Yamaguchi there was a long period of drought and only strong sunshine. ...

. 竜神 the Ryujin Dragon Deity and rain rituals .

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. Akama Jingu 赤間神宮 Akama Shrine .
dedicated to 安徳天皇 Antoku Tenno, a Japanese emperor who died young in the Battle of Dannoura in 1185.
4-1 Amidaijicho, Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi

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Karatsu Kaido 唐津街道 Karatsu Highway
From Wakamatsu, 福岡県 Fukuoka to 浜崎 Hamasaki, 唐津市 Karatsu city in 佐賀県 Saga

- Postal Stations on the Highway -
若松 Wakamatsu
芦屋 Ashiya
赤間 Akama
畦町 Azemachi
青柳 Aoyagi
箱崎 Hakozaki
博多 Hakata
福岡 Fukuoka
姪浜 Meinohama
今宿 Imajuku
前原 Maebaru
深江 Fukae
浜崎 Hamasaki

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Karatsu Kaido: A Major Artery for Ancient Travelers
A series of roads, or kaido, were built throughout Japan in the Edo Era for both feudal lords trekking to Edo and regular travelers. The most famous road in Kyushu was the Nagasaki Kaido, but there was also another road that ran through Fukuoka City: Karatsu Kaido. The road connected Karatsu in Saga prefecture to Kitakyushu via Hakata, and it was used by the lords of the Fukuoka and Karatsu domains for their trips to Edo. There were five rest areas along the Karatsu Kaido that now lie within the Fukuoka city limits:
Hakozaki, Hakata, Fukuoka, Meinohama and Imajuku.
In fact, some experts think this road was in use well before the Edo period. They speculate that it was used by people coming from and going to the Asian mainland in ancient times, thereby serving as a conduit through which Chinese culture spread throughout Japan. The Karatsu Kaido was also an important defense against the Mongol invasions of the late 13th century, and it is said that Hideyoshi Toyotomi marched down the road for his attempted invasion of Korea.
Unfortunately,
almost no signs of the old road remain within the city limits of Fukuoka, but many old historic sites, shrines and temples that once lined the road still exist today. There are also some areas along the old route where even machiya (Kyoto-style townhouses)—a rarity in Fukuoka—remain. These include the shopping districts of Hakozaki and Maidashi, the area of Hakata near the Ishidobashi Bridge, Kuromon, Tojinmachi and the shopping district of Nishijin.
Among these old station towns,
Meinohama is actively engaged in community development based on the Karatsu Kaido. Local residents established the Karatsu Kaido Meinohama Community Development Council to invigorate the community while working to preserve machiya and the history of the old road. The Council’s base is the Maizuru Miso shop, an Edo-era machiya that is now used as a gallery and concert space. Two machiya in Meinohama have been designated as Registered Cultural Properties of Fukuoka City under the city’s newly established heritage registration system. The Council also runs local guided tours and various other events, and all are welcome to attend.
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Akamajuku 赤間宿 Akama postal station
in Fukuoka, 宗像市 Munakata city
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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

- Legends about 安徳天皇 Emperor Antoku Tenno -

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A ship from 筑前 Chikuzen (Fukuoka) was almost shipwrecked and landed in 津軽 Tsugaru.
The sailors went on land and into the mountains, where they found a woman of about 40 years, who was of the same hometown as the sailors.
She said she had left a horagai 法螺貝 conch under wakamatsu 若松 a young pine tree in her hometown.
When the sailors made it back to their hometown, they found it. The tree had become very old and the conch looked quite ancient too.
When they asked the woman again, she said during the time of Antoku Tenno she had been 20 years old.

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In the North-West of 定義阿弥陀堂 the Teigi Amida Hall there is a 天皇塚 Tenno Mound where relics from 安徳天皇 Antoku Tenno are burried.
On the mound is enoki 榎 a nettle tree.
If a woman wants to become pregnant, she hugs the tree, picks up a pebble from below the tree and puts it in her sleeve pocked.
The tree is now lost, but its roots are still there.

Temple 西方寺 Saiho-Ji

宮城県仙台市青葉区大倉字上下 / Joge-2 Okura, Aoba Ward, Sendai

Teigi, Sadayoshi 「定義」（さだよし）- 平貞能 Taira no Sadayoshi
He was the governor of Higo and Chikugo provinces in Kyūshū. He was a samurai commander for the Taira clan during the Genpei War around 1180.

Tennozuka 天皇塚（安徳天皇）Mound for Antoku Tenno

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中津川村 Nakatsugawa

Fukada no tsuka ふかだの塚 Fukada Mound
The mound is also called Tamaniwa 玉庭 Gyokutei.
This mound is said to be the grave of Antoku Tenno.
It was to be excarvated in 1925, but the workers all got bad dreams and illness and so they stopped the project.

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- reference : nichibun yokai database -

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海松青し赤間の宮の御裳裾に

轡田進 Kutsuwada Susumi (1923 - 1999）

蕗のたう安徳帝の宮に摘む

石川纓子　Ishikawa Eiko

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12/06/2019

Akamagaseki Karatsu Kaido highways

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