Sasayama Kaido Highway

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Sasayama Kaido 篠山街道 Sasayama Highway
Connecting 亀岡 Kameoka with 矢名瀬 Yanase and the 山陰街道 Sanin Kaido.
About 90 km long.

Branching off from the Sanin Kaido at Kameoka.
Sometimes called
. Kyo Kaido 京街道 Kyoto Highway .
or Tajima Kaido 但馬街道 Tajima Highway.

- Postal stations along the Sasayama Kaido
Kameoka 亀岡
Fukuju 福住
Hatta Toge pass 八田峠
Sasayama 篠山
Amabiki Toge pass 天引（あまびき）峠
Kanegasaka Toge pass 鐘ヶ坂峠
Kaibara 柏原（かいばら）
Saji 佐治
Tozaka Toge pass 遠阪峠
Yanase 矢名瀬 (close to Wadayama 和田山 on the Sanin Kaido)

Used for Sankin Kotai visits to Edo by the following domains:

篠山藩 Sasayama han
柏原藩 Kaibara han / 丹波柏原藩
豊岡藩 Toyooka han

Since the highway connected easily to 丹波と但馬 Tajima and 因幡 Inaba, it was also used by merchants and travellers.

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Hatta Toge pass 八田峠
Toge Sonobecho Minamihatta, Nantan, Kyoto

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Amabiki Toge pass 天引峠
Sonobecho Amabiki, Nantan, Kyoto

Connecting Sasayama city in Hyogo with 南丹市 Nantan city in Kyoto (Minami Tanba 丹波)

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Kanegasaka Toge pass 鐘ヶ坂峠

. Tanba Province: 鐘坂　Kanegasaka .
Utagawa Hiroshige print :
鐘坂と鬼の架け橋　－Kanegasaka Oni no kakehashi 鬼の架け橋 - Kinzan

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Kaibara 柏原（かいばら）

The town 柏原町 is located in the 氷上郡 Hikami District of Hyōgo Prefecture, just a bit North of Sasayama.

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Tozaka Toge pass 遠阪峠
Shiba, Asago, Hyogo / 兵庫県丹波市朝来市柴
About 380 m high.
It is already mentioned in records of the Heian period.
In Tanba it was called Tozaka Toge, in 但馬国 Tajima it was called 粟鹿 Awaga.

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Yanase 矢名瀬
Hyogo, Asago, Santōchō Massai
There are still many old homes in the town.

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Welcome To Asago City
Asago city is located near the center of the Hyogo Prefecture, an important center of traffic which links Tajima and San-In district. The city possesses a great nature with river, mountain, and is inhabited by more than 33000 people.
The City of Asago has a great amount of historical and cultural sites. Out of the hundred of castles situated in Japan, Asago city counts one of its finest, the ruins of Takeda Castle. The castle has the particularity of being constructed with an Ishigaki wall (a wall built by piling up stones as they were in their natural shape and form) which can still be seen now. Thus, in the early morning in autumn, a fog surrounding the castle can be seen and the view is such that the castle resembles a castle floating in the sky. The names of “castle floating in the sky” or “Japan’s Machu Picchu” has been given to the ruins of Takeda Castle.
You can also visit the great industrial heritage that is the Ikuno Silver Mines,which have 1200 years of history.
Asago City also has the Chasurin Yama Tumuli which is the biggest Tumuli of the Kansai area, a great art museum and a beautiful park of wisteria floribunda on the shelter of the mountains.
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. Kameoka Kaido 亀岡街道 Kameoka Highway .

. Sanin Kaido 山陰街道 Sanin Highway, San'in Highway .

. Tango 丹後街道 Tanba 丹波街道 Kaido Highways .

- source and more photos : hyakkaido.travel.coocan.jp... -

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- - - - - Tamba Sasayama
Just west of Kyoto, Tamba Sasayama in Hyogo is a hidden gem where travelers can enjoy historic castle remains and Edo-style townscape, traditional art, and great outdoors. Relax for three days with a trip that covers the best Tamba Sasayama has to offer.
- History, Cafes, And Strolling Through A Castle Town
- Make Tamba Pottery And Stay In An Old Home: Experience Sasayama
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Sasayama Domain (篠山藩, Sasayama-han)
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Tanba Province.
It was founded in 1609, when Matsudaira Yasushige moved there from the Yakami Domain. The domain changed hands several times until 1748, when it was given to 青山忠朝 Aoyama Tadatomo (1708－1760). The Aoyama family remained there until 1868; the domain itself was abolished in 1871. Its territory first became part of the short-lived Toyooka Prefecture, before being made part of Hyogo Prefecture in 1876; it remains part of Hyogo Prefecture to the present day.
The Aoyama, the last ruling family, became viscounts in the Meiji era.
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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

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篠山町 Sasayama town

kaji 火事 fire
If there is a fire and someone covers his face because he is afraid to look on, he will get a bruise on his face where his hands touched.

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. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
If a fox howls at night, there might be the curse of a fire soon.

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. Inari 稲荷と伝説 Legends about the Fox Deity .
The rikishi 力士 Sumo wrestlers from Sasayama always lost a bout when the Shogun came to look, but this time they all won.
When the lord of the domain, 青山忠裕 Aoyama Tadahiro, came back to his estate in Edo, the wrestlers had already left and went back home to Hyogo.
These wrestlers had been the Inari foxes from a shrine in the domain.
To show his gratitude, Tadahiro ordered special flags and ema 絵馬 votive tablets.
- The Inari Foxes from 王地山 / 王子山 Ojisan (Ojiyama) sometimes went to war and one fox looked like 1000 men to help winning.
- If the Inari fox howls, there will be a fire.

Ojiyama Inari Shrine

Aoyama Inari Shrine
Ojiyama Makekirai Inari shrine
Shiroyama Inari Shrine
Ushirogawa Inari Shrine . . . and more

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篠山市 Sasayama city 西浜谷 / 浜谷 Nishi-Hamadani

Yoshimori no to 義盛の塔 the memorial tower of Yoshimori
Once the memorial tower was crying every night, begging to be brought back to 濱谷 Hamadani. So finally they brought it back to where it belonged.

伊勢三郎義盛の供養塔（西浜谷）
篠山産業高校の西北方山麓の集落が西浜谷で、太古に篠山盆地が湖であったころ、浜辺であった名残の地名であろう。西北部の一段高い所に「毘沙門堂」があり、その奥へ１００メートルほど入った竹藪の中の台地に、源義経の四天王の一人、「伊勢三郎義盛の供養塔」という宝篋印塔（町・文）がある。高さ１．５９メートル、中輪の正面に梵字が刻まれているだけで無銘であるが、室町期かそれ以前の作である。ここには、もと湧泉（遊仙）山福応寺があった。
伊勢三郎義盛は伊勢国に生まれ、上野国で義経の家来となり、一字をもらったとされる。義盛は各地で奮戦し、文治元年（１１８５）には壇ノ浦の合戦の後、平宗盛・清宗父子を京へ護送している。
義経は、兄頼朝と不仲となり堀川の館を出た後、文治５年に奥州衣川館の戦いで自刃するまで、約３年間消息不明の期間がある。当地出身の鷲尾三郎経春のつてで、このうち相当長期にわたって三岳修験者たちに隠まわれていたとし、その間に三郎は亡くなったとも、鈴鹿山で自殺したとも、義経とともに北国落ちして、衣川で討死にしたともいう。いずれにしても、なじみの里で供養したのだろうと伝えられている。
昔、なぜか徴兵逃れや戦死除けにお陰があると参詣者が多く、奉納した幟が何本も立っていた
- reference source : city.sasayama.hyogo.jp/rekishi...-

Ise Yoshimori 伊勢義盛 Ise no Saburo Yoshimori
retainer of Minamoto no Yoshitsune

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Ise Saburo was one of the four attendants of the prince Yoshitsune. While Yoshitsune himself was considered an expert in ninjutsu, Ise no Saburo Yoshimori was in fact one of the leaders of shinobi bands near Ueno region. Depicted in many theater plays and renowned by Yoshitsune Monogatari, Yoshimori represents an example of a devoted samurai vassal, yet also skilled in ninjutsu.
It is considered that Ise Saburo had been born in Zairyo or Iga – a place in Ueno area, whence the pronunciation of his name as ‘Saburo’ comes; another name of his was Yakeshita Koroku. Yoshitsune Monogatari says that Yoshimori clan came from some other place and faithfully served the Minamoto clan. But Ise Saburo, raised without a father, headed a band of bandits, laying claim to ‘his’ territory – upland near Iga.
However, after meeting Yoshitsune,
Ise Saburo returned to serving his lord, just as his ancestors did. His loyalty and martial skills made him one of the prince Minamoto’s first generals. But that fact doesn’t understate his combat skills – in battle Ise Saburo demonstrated remarkable techniques, killing and capturing enemies no less than any other of Yoshitsune favorites did. His skill in using the ‘bear paw’ (kumade, a special instrument used by ninja and other warriors as a grappling iron or hook) is mentioned. Ise no Saburo Yoshimori faced his death together with his brothers-in-arms, protecting their lord in a last stand. Being severely wounded, he could not continue the fight and committed ritual suicide.
Yet his wisdom and knowledge did not pass by the succeeding generations. A collection of poems (tanka) on ninjutsu and ninja strategy supposedly authored by him has remained. As these were collected 500 years after his death it is doubtful that he truly wrote them. A few of them were included in Bansenshukai ninja manual under the title ‘A Hundred Poems About The Ninja’.
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桃買ひて丹波篠山行きの汽車
momo kai ni Tanba Sasayama yuki no kisha

taking the train
to Tanba Sasayama
to buy peaches
Tr. Gabi Greve

細見綾子 Hosomi Ayako (1907 - 1997)

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3/18/2020

Sasayama Kaido Highway

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