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2007/12/6


石堂寺 多宝塔 Ishidou-ji Tahou-tou The Tahoto Pagoda at Ishidoji Temple

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Tahoto is a two-storied pagoda composed of a square lower story and a cylindrical upper story. This Tahoto pagoda is one of many cultural properties that have been preserved at Ishidoji Temple in Minamiboso City in Chiba Prefecture. The temple is said to have been founded by Priest Gyoki in 726 and to be the oldest temple in the southern part of Boso Peninsula.

It is said that the Tahoto pagoda was constructed in 1545 by Satomi Yoshitaka, the ruler of this province during the Warring States period. It is a 13-meter tall pagoda with Japanese cypress bark roof and elaborate wood carvings. The lower story is supported by four pillars and the altar inside the pagoda houses the statue of Senju Kannon (Kannon with 1,000 arms). The pagoda is a prefecturally designated important cultural property.
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2007/4/11


長沼の駒形大仏 Naganuma-no-Komagata-Daibutsu Komagata Great Buddha in Naganuma

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Komagata Daibutsu is a great Buddha statue located in Naganuma-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba City. It was set up in 1703 by Noda Gennai, who was a pharmacy commission merchant in Edo and developed paddy-fields in Naganuma village. He collected voluntary subscriptions from 60 nearby villages and set it up to pray for cure of illness and safe travel of the people and horses going up and down the Onari Kaido Road. It was designed and cast by Hashimoto Izaemon Fujiwara Shigehiro, a casting workman in Sanmacho, Asakusa, Edo. This 2.4 m tall statue is the image of seated Amida Nyorai making Jou-in (meditation mudra) in front of the abdomen. The head and body were separately cast and joined together. The list of donators inscribed on the back of the statue shows that this Great Buddha was worshipped by a people in a wide range of area including Matsudo and Inbanuma. The Great Buddha still gently watches over the traffic on the Naganuma Kaido Street.
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千葉城跡 Chiba-jo-ato Chiba Castle Ruins

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Chiba Castle located in Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba City was built by Chiba Tsuneshige in 1126 as a residence of the Chiba clan. In 1455, when Chiba Tanenao was defeated by Makuwari Yasutane, the castle was dismantled. The castle was located on the cliff at the end of a tonguing hill. The castle was protected by the steep cliffs on the south and west sides of the hill and the river running in the north. On the castle ruin site stands the donjon in the near modern style, which was built in 1967 and has been used as a city’s Folk Museum. The earthwork and part of dry moat remain to the northwest of the donjon. It is presumed that the castle had three main buildings in the middle age style. We can imagine the prosperity of the Chiba clan in those days from Dainichiji Temple, where the graves of the successive heads of the clan are placed, and many other temples in the city.
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千葉 梅ヶ瀬渓谷 Chiba Umegase-keikoku Chiba Umegase Gorge

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Umegase Gorge located in Ichihara City, Chiba Pref. was created by the erosion of the Umegase River, which streams out of Mt. Daifuku and flows into the Yoro River. About 50 m high vertical cliffs are forming a deep gorge. The fault of sand and silt, which was formed about 800,000 years ago, can be seen on the surface of the cliffs. The gorge was named after Tsukigase Gorge in Nara Prefecture by Nobuzane Hidaka, a scholar of the Chinese classics in the Meiji period (1868-1912). At the ruin site of his residence on the upstream of the river, hundreds of huge Japanese maple trees, which were planted in those days, are forming a fine grove. The cherry blossoms in spring are wonderful, but it is far more wonderful in fall, when Japanese maple trees put on autumn colors. The gorge is said to be one of the best places to view autumn tints in the prefecture. As the walking trail is arranged from Yoro-Keikoku Station to the top of Mt. Daifuku, you can enjoy hiking along the river. However, you must be cautious of some steep parts in the upstream.
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千葉 九十九谷 Chiba Kujuu-tani Kujukutani in Chiba

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Kujukutani is the landscape of the row of mountains seen from the Kujukutani Park down from Shiratori Shrine at the southeastern end of Mt. Kano in Kimitsu City, Chiba Pref. The mountains including Mt. Takago are part of Boso Kyuryo (hills). This picturesque landscape is composed of deep valleys and overlapping mountain ridgelines, which is selected as one of 500 Charming Spots in Boso. Purple mists at dawn or the after grow of a sunset creates a magnificent scene like an ink painting. Especially beautiful is the sea of clouds trailing along the ridgelines and fading out into the air, which can be seen from the late fall to winter. A poet, Keigetsu Omachi, described it as “the most wonderful sight in the world.” It is said that an artist painter, Kaii Higashiyama, was inspired with this landscape and painted one of his masterpieces, “Afterglow.”
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千葉 鋸山 Chiba Nokogiri-yama Nokogiri-yama in Chiba

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Nokogiri-yama is a mountain forming the border of Kyonan-machi in Awa-gun and Kimitsu City, Chiba Pref. The mountain is 329 m above sea level. It is a part of Boso Kyuryo (hills) and Minami-Boso Quasi-National Park. The rocky cliffs are composed of tuff, which was called Boshu-stone and had been quarried as building material since the Edo period. The stone was used for the construction of many buildings in Tokyo including Waseda University and Yasukuni Shrine, but quarrying is shut down at the present day. As the quarried cliffs were shaped like the teeth of saw, people began to call it Nokogiri-yama (saw-mountain). The original name is Mt. Kenkon. The access to the top is easy by taking the ropeway from the foot of the mountain. You can command a panoramic view including Mt. Fuji and the towns of Yokohama beyond Tokyo Bay.
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千葉 富山 Chiba Tomi-san Tomi-san in Chiba

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Tomi-san is a two-peaked mountain with an altitude of 350 m above sea level located in Minami-Boso City, Chiba Pref. Being a part of Boso Kyuryo (hills), intact nature remains in the mountain, which is covered with fresh green leaves in early summer. The observatory at the top of Konpira-mine, the northern peak, is named “Juishu Ichiran Dai (the observatory of eleven provinces),” because the view from here is superior to that from “Jushu Ichiran Dai (the observatory of ten provinces)” at the top of Mt. Nokogiri. Tomi-san was used as the setting of the novel “Nanso Satomi Hakkenden” by Takizawa Bakin. On the side of the mountain, there is a cave that Fusehime, a daughter of the Satomi clan, hid herself with her dog, Yatsufusa. With the Suisen Kaido (the iris road) and Kobai Kaido (the red plum blossom road) in the vicinity, Tomi-san is also popular among hikers.
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千葉 印旛沼 Chiba Inba-numa Lake Inbanuma

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Lake Inbanuma is a natural fresh water lake located in the northwestern part of Chiba Pref. The total surface area of the lake is 11.5 square kilometers, spanning the cities of Yachiyo, Sakura and Narita and the village of Inba. It is the largest lake in the prefecture. About 1,000 years ago, it was connected with Lake Teganuma and Lake Kasumigaura and formed a vast wetland. Due to the deposition of mud and sand inflowing from the upstream, Lake Inbanuma itself is presently divided into two parts; the west lake and the north lake, which are connected by a canal.
In the Edo period (1603-1868), when the course of the Tone River was moved to the east, the water influx into Lake Inbanuma increased in volume and floods occurred frequently. Several repair works including the Tenmei Repair Work by Tanuma Okitsugu and the Inbanuma Waterway Works by Torii Tadateru were given but resulted in failure. The fight with water continued till the eras after the Meiji period. In 1965, the Development Work of Lake Inbanuma was completed and no flood has occurred since then. Now Lake Inbanuma is an important water source, which supplies water for agriculture and industry to the surrounding areas as well as drinking water to the cities of Chiba, Funabashi and Narashino.
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