Tatsugo Town

Villages dance homes pure on set days.

Taneoroshi, a purifying dance

Photo by KQuhen (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Dragon's Eye

A 29 m tunnel takes the setting sunonly around the equinoxes.

On a prefectural road in En village is the 29 m Kaganbana Tunnel. Only for a few days around the spring and autumn equinoxes, the setting sun fits right inside. Because it looks like an eye set in a dragon's face, it is called the Dragon's Eye or Dragon Eye.

29 m long
A few days around each equinox
Viewpoint 370 m from En bus stop toward Yasukiyaba

02 ／ Akina Arasetsu Rites

At dawn a hillside roof is shaken down;at evening, songs pass between shore rocks.

The rites are two: Shochogama at dawn and Hirase Mankai in the evening. At Shochogama a one-sided roof on the hillside is shaken down; at Hirase Mankai, prayers go to the gods of Neriya, beyond the sea. They were designated a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1985.

Shochogama: at dawn
Hirase Mankai: timed to the evening high tide
1985: national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property

03 ／ Mud-Dyed Tatsugo-gara Technique

With teichi-bark liquid and a mud field,silk turns from brown to black.

The mud-dyeing technique for Tatsugo-gara Oshima tsumugi, in Kado, is a town-designated intangible folk cultural property. The town writes that silk is dipped alternately in a teichi-bark decoction and lime solution, then turned black in a mud field. The town introduces Kado as the birthplace of Tatsugo-gara.

Town designation, February 1971
Kado
Tannic acid of teichi and iron in the mud

Living here

About 380 km southwest of Kagoshima, in northern Amami Oshima.

about 6,000 people
Rural district town

Tatsugo lies in northern Amami Oshima, midway between Okinawa and the mainland, about 380 km southwest of Kagoshima city. The town writes that the climate is marine subtropical, with an average temperature of about 21 degrees and rainfall near 3,000 mm a year. The gateway is Tatsugo Town Hall.

People living here: 5,817people
Area: 81.82km²
Households: 2,561households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —3 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 1 municipalities.

Tatsugo Town in Japan28.413°N 129.589°E

Territory of Tatsugo Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.0km

奄美市

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

Tatsugo Town isthis kind of town.

01Taneoroshi prays for next year's harvest and closes the year by dancing each household pure; the town posts a village-by-village schedule each year for 20 villages
02Saigo Takamori's third place of seclusion, Nanshu Rutakuato, is a prefecturally designated property, and the explorer Sasamori Gisuke worked to have a monument honoring Saigo built there
03Yukimori Shrine in Toguchi honors Taira no Yukimori, and Toguchi keeps many legends of the Taira who fled after Dan-no-ura; in Sedome three granaries stand as registered tangible cultural properties

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

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