Inaba Kaido Highway

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Inaba Kaido 因幡街道 Inaba Highway
Connecting Himeji in 兵庫県 Hyogo with 鳥取 Tottori.

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. Sanin Kaido 山陰街道 Sanin Highway, San'in Highway .
11 鳥取宿（鳥取県鳥取市）- Tottori

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- Postal stations along the Inaba Kaido

Himeji 姫路 Hyogo（兵庫県姫路市）
Shikisai 飾西宿（兵庫県姫路市）
Hashisaki 觜崎宿（兵庫県たつの市）
Senbon 千本宿（兵庫県たつの市）
Mikazuki 三日月宿（兵庫県佐用郡佐用町）
Hirafuku 平福宿（兵庫県佐用郡佐用町）
Ohara 大原宿 Okayama （岡山県美作市）
Sakane 坂根宿（岡山県英田郡西粟倉村）
Komagaeri 駒帰宿 Tottori（鳥取県八頭郡智頭町）
Chizu 智頭宿（鳥取県八頭郡智頭町）
Mochigase 用瀬宿（鳥取県鳥取市）
Kawara 河原宿（鳥取県鳥取市）
Tottori 鳥取（鳥取県鳥取市）

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Ohara 大原宿

Ohara is connected to the birth of the famous swordsman
. Miyamoto Musashi 宮本武蔵 (1584 - 1645) .
Miyamoto no Sato 武蔵の里
Shrine 武蔵神社 Musashi Jinja

岡山県美作市宮本968 / Okayama, Mimasaka, Miyamoto 968

- Link with more photos from Ohara :
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The road Musashi took to leave home is called
Musashi Michi　武蔵道 Musashi Road

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Chizu 智頭宿

. Visiting Chizu .
Ishitani Family Residence / 智頭石谷家住宅 and more

Chizu Orai route 智頭往来ルート
crossing over the pass 志戸坂峠 Shitozaka Toge.
Now National Highway Nr. 373
It was used for Sankin Kotai to Edo by the Lord of 鳥取藩 Tottori Han.

Shitozaka tunnel

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Inaba Province (因幡国, Inaba no kuni)
was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Tottori Prefecture. It was sometimes called Inshū (因州).
Inaba bordered on Harima, Hōki, Mimasaka, and Tajima Provinces.
The ancient capital, and the castle town, were at Tottori city. Ube jinja was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) for the province.
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Wakasa Kaido 若桜街道（わかさかいどう) Wakasa Highway
This old highway connects the city of Tottori with nearby 若桜町 Wakasa town.
Now National Highway Nr. 29.
When the road reached Hyogo prefecture, it was named 因幡街道 Inaba Kaido.

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Wakasa (若桜町, Wakasa-chō)
is a town located in 八頭町 Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. ...
Wakasa, located deep in the Chūgoku Mountains, is 95% mountainous. The population of Wakasa is primarily located in mountain villages in a line from the southeast to northwest of the town. Most of the population is located along the Hattō River or its small tributaries.
The town hosts an annual 'Yukigassen', an organised snowball fighting tournament in which up to fifty teams participate. The winners win a trip to participate in the Hokkaido grand tournament.
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- Early history
The mountainous areas of Wakasa do not appear to have supported a population in early Japanese history.
No remains from the Jōmon (14,000 – 300 BCE) or Yayoi 300 BCE – 250 CE) periods have been found in Wakasa. The town had two or three small settlements in the Kofun period (250 – 538). Wakasa became part of Yakami District in Inaba Province early in recorded Japanese history. Settlements in the area are appeared early in the Heian period (794 – 1185), and the name of a village called Wakasa first appear in the historical record this time.
The Yabe clan controlled Wakasa throughout the Heian period to the end of the Kamakura period (1185 – 1333). The Yabe built 若桜鬼ヶ城（わかさおにがじょう）Wakasa Onigajo Castle in this period.A The existence of the Yabe clan and Oniga castle are noted in the Taiheiki, a Japanese historical epic written in the late 14th century.
- Later history
Wakasa, located in a richly forested area of the Chūgoku Mountains, was a source of lumber and lumber products from early times. The production of raw timber, planks, charcoal, and firewood is noted as early as the Kamakura period. These products, as well as rice, were transported on the Hattō River for export to other parts of Japan via the Japan Sea.
At the beginning of the Edo period (1603 – 1868) the Tokugawa shogunate developed land for rice paddies in Wakasa as part of a nationwide effort to increase rice production in Japan. The mountainous areas of Wakasa provided extensive irrigation for rice-producing areas in the flatlands of the lower Sendai River, but Wakasa suffered frequent flooding from the Hattō River, notably in 1815 and 1888.
After the Meiji Restoration in 1868 Wakasa became part of the newly formed Tottori Prefecture. The town was officially incorporated under administrative reforms by the Meiji government in 1889.
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remains of 若桜鬼ヶ城 Wakasa Onigajo Castle

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因幡 - 伯耆のみち - 檮原街道 Inaba, Hōki / Hoki no Michi, Yusuhara Kaido
司馬遼太郎「街道をゆく」Ryōtarō Shiba Ryotaro

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

. The White Rabbit of Inaba 因幡の白兎 .

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智頭 Chizu

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Once a child was bewitched by a fox. A Buddhist priest performed rituals and blew his horagai ホラ貝 conch shell during the whole night.
Next morning the child was dead.

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Seirenzuka no matsu 正蓮塚の松 pine at the Seiren mound
Also called Yamabushi matsu 山伏松 "pine of the Yamabushi mountain priest".
Near the Chizubashi bridge. A samurai called 花房彌次郎 / 花房弥次郎 Hanabusa Yajiro lived here.
Yajiro had a dream about a Yamabushi who told him he could not go to the Buddhist paradise and asked Yajiro to perform rituals for him.
Yajiro went to the temple 龍峯寺 Ryubu-Ji and asked the priest to perform rituals. After that, the bad dreams of Yajiro stopped.

Chizubashi bridge 智頭橋 in Tottori, over the river 袋川 Fukurogawa - one of the 100 famous bridges of Japan.

. matsu 松と伝説 Legends about the pine tree .

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岩美郡 Iwami district

. namazu なまず / 鯰　the catfish - der Wels .
In the lake 多鯰ヶ池 Tanegaike there lived a huge catfish. His mouth was more than 3 meters wide. Once some people came by boat to cross this lake and the catfish tried to swallow them with the boat.
There also lived a special unagi 鰻 eel in the lake.
Only its head was huge, but the rest of its body was very frail.

. unagi うなぎ /　鰻と伝説 Legends about the eel .

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若桜町 Wakasa town

. Kannon Bosatsu 観音菩薩伝説 legends about Kannon .
Once a thief wanted to steal the Kannon statue in the yard of the school of the hamlet 中原 Nakahara. He tried to carry it, but it became more and more heavy. When he turned to bring it back, it became light again.
Another version tells of a rope which the thief used, and it fell apart.
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Many years ago there was a special hospital for densenbyosha 伝染病者 people with infectious epidemic diseases above the statue of Kannon.
A nearby farmhouse had a fire and a bundle of straw flew toward the hospital, which also begun to burn.
Since it was above the Kannon statue, people thought the deity did not like the hospital and helped to burn it.

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. Konjin, Konjin Sama 金神, 金神様 deity of metal .
Konjin San is a wicket deity who curses people.
Once it was outdide the home, but a priest advised to put it inside on the kamidana 神棚 shelf of the Gods and venerate it there.

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. Kojin Sama 荒神様 Aragami "wild deity" .
If people do not venerate this deity properly, they will be cursed.
Once something bad happened in the hamlet and people said it was the curse of 門田家の荒神さん Kojin sama from the Kadota family.
Now they come and venerate there to appease the deity.

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kimodameshi 肝試し test of courage
On the 14th day of the 12th month, the day when the famous 47 Ronin killed their enemy as told in the Chushingura story,
the young people from the village have to pass a test of courage.
They have to go to the graveyard or the local Shinto shrine at night and the elders threaten them from behind the big 銀杏 Gingko tree along the road.

. Chushingura 忠臣蔵 and the 47 Ronin .

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. tanuki 狸 - mujina 狢－ racoon dog, badger legends .
Deep in the mountains of the 吉川 Yoshikawa hamlet there were many forest workers cutting trees, living in a small hut. At night a woman came peeking into the hut. The woodcutters were afraid and slept with their axes by the bedside. The next evening the woman came again and walked into the hut, looking at each one face. When she came to the last one in the back, he took his ax to kill her, but she run away. All his companions had their tongues cut out and were dead.
All the villagers from Yoshikawa went to the mountain now and followed the blood trail until they came to a cave in a valley. In the hole they found the white hair of a Tanuki, who had killed all the people.

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. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
If someone talks bad about a fox in the evening, the fox will come at night and bark around the house so that people can not sleep.
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On a mountain road the fox may do a lot of tricks:
make people loose their way, shape-shift into a woman to seduce a man, show a home by the roadside, steal the candle from the lantern of steal the fish someone is carrying.

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- reference : nichibun yokai database -
因幡若桜町 // 43 因幡

池に関する因幡の伝説 Legends from Inaba related to ponds and lakes
徳田貞一

因幡若桜の民俗 Tales from Inaba Wakasa
六信仰

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春灯の因幡の宿の茶粥かな
shuntoo no Inaba no yado no chagayu kana

lamplight in spring
at a lodging in Inaba eating rice gruel
cooked with tea . . .
Tr. Gabi Greve

いちろ Ichiro

. shuntoo 春燈 (しゅんとう) lamplight in spring .

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Edo - the EDOPEDIA -

3/04/2020

Inaba Kaido Highway

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