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07481 ／たなぐらまち

Fukushima Prefecture 東白川郡

Tanagura Town

A tree thought spared as a shrine moved.

Tanagura Castle Ruins Zelkova

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Water

At Tamano Weir, the Yashiro River's water splits three ways,and the town says the 1871 agreement's quotas are still kept.

The town's plan for preserving historic character explains the three-way division at Tamano Weir as splitting the Yashiro River's water into the Tamano, Tanagura and Asakawa channels. It says the date the channels were dug is unclear, and that the quotas set by the 1871 agreement have been kept to this day.

Tamano, Tanagura and Asakawa channels
1871 agreement
Town historic-character plan

02 ／ Main hall

Even after being moved, the main hallkept almost the same size and form, the town says.

The town's museum site says the main hall of Baba Tsutsukowake Shrine appears to have been built by Satake Yoshinobu in 1594, and that when it was moved to its present site in 1625 its size and form were barely changed. It is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall with no carvings.

Important Cultural Property (designated Dec. 10, 2014)
Three-bay nagare-zukuri
Appears to date from about 1594

03 ／ Field-planting rite

A drum skin stands in for a rice field,and the farm year is acted out in the worship hall.

Field-planting rite in Tanagura Town — Photo by 麒麟坊 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The Otaue of Yatsuki Tsutsukowake Shrine is a rice-planting rite performed in the worship hall each year on the sixth day of the first lunar month. The Agency for Cultural Affairs says the drum skin stands in for a field, and that a model ox on a four-wheeled box is drawn out for the paddy leveling.

Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property (designated Feb. 6, 2004)
Sixth day of the first lunar month
Performed in the worship hall

Tanagura Town from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June 2022)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

Three Suigun Line stations lie in the town.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

The town has three stations on the JR Suigun Line: Iwaki-Tanakura, Nakatoyo and Chikazu. The town's access guide points visitors to Iwaki-Tanakura Station by JR Bus Kanto from Shin-Shirakawa Station, or by the Suigun Line from Mito or Koriyama, and says trains run about once every one to two hours. No train runs from the Tokyo area without a change.

People living here: 13,343people
Area: 159.93km²
Households: 4,728households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 9 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —2 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 8 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Tanagura Town in Japan37.030°N 140.380°E

Territory of Tanagura Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

17.4km

Fukushima Prefecture: Hanawa Town, Shirakawa City, Asakawa Town, Samegawa Village, Yamatsuri Town
Tochigi Prefecture: Nasu Town, Otawara City
Ibaraki Prefecture: Daigo Town

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Tanagura Town isthis kind of town.

01The Great Zelkova of Tanagura Castle Ruins is a prefectural natural monument; when the shrine was moved for the castle, the town says it was kept as a memorial while other trees in the grounds were used as building material
02The town's plan says Tamano Weir splits the Yashiro River into three channels, and that the quotas set by the 1871 agreement have been kept to this day
03Baba Tsutsukowake Shrine's main hall, an Important Cultural Property, kept almost the same size and form when moved, and at Yatsuki Tsutsukowake Shrine a drum stands in for a field in the Otaue rite on the sixth day of the first lunar month

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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