Takanabe Town

Pained by tomb looting, he kept carving.

Takanabe Daishi, Iwaoka statues

Photo by 原田純児 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Mochida Kofun Cluster

A stone coffin dug up and set on topgave Ishifunezuka its name.

Mound No. 15 is a keyhole-shaped tomb 46m long. Its boat-shaped stone coffin was dug up in the Edo period and set on the top of the rear mound. The largest, Mound No. 1 (Hakarizuka, 計塚), was once written "balance mound" (天秤塚) yet, it seems, read Hakarizuka. Many of the excavated items left the prefecture in the early Showa era.

National Historic Site (designated 1961)
Mound 15 (Ishifunezuka): 46m long
Mound 1 (Hakarizuka): 120m long

02 ／ Kuromizu Family Residence

A chief retainer's house for a lineof strategists, with a thatched main house.

The Kuromizu family were military strategists for generations in Takanabe Domain. The house was the residence of Kuromizu Chozo, one of the 12 chief retainers of the 10th lord, and is called a chief retainer's residence. Its main house is hip-roofed and thatched, dated to about the Bunka-Bunsei era (1804-1830) though its construction date is unknown, and the entrance has a three-step shikidai (式台).

Town-designated tangible cultural property (1990)
Main house dated to Bunka-Bunsei era
Open to the public since 1995

03 ／ Meirindo Domain School

The plaque of the domain school Meirindois in the hand of the 7th lord, Tanehige.

In 1778 the 7th lord, Akizuki Tanehige, opened the domain school Meirindo (明倫堂), open to all regardless of rank. Its plaque is in his own hand. Earlier, in 1761, a support system for farmers with many children began. Meirindo was abolished in 1873.

1761: support for farmers with many children
1778: Meirindo completed
1873: abolished

Living here

The urban area lies on flat land between two rivers.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

The town's official site calls Takanabe the smallest municipality in Miyazaki Prefecture and says daily life can be managed by bicycle. It was a castle town of the Akizuki clan's 30,000-koku domain, and the site says traces remain in place names and streets. The gateway is Takanabe Station on the JR Nippo Main Line.

People living here: 19,922people
Area: 43.8km²
Households: 8,685households
Rent (average for rentals): 37,940yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 21 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —7 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 4 municipalities.

Takanabe Town in Japan32.128°N 131.503°E

Territory of Takanabe Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.3km

新富町, 川南町, 木城町, 西都市

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

Takanabe Town isthis kind of town.

01Takanabe Daishi is a group of statues standing at the tip of the Mochida plateau. Iwaoka Yasukichi, pained by the looting of tombs in the early Showa era, began carving at 40 to calm the spirits of those buried there; the town's official site says there are over 700.
02The Mochida Kofun Cluster (a National Historic Site) has 85 mounds on a plateau and lowland on the north bank of the Omaru River, and is a component of the Japan Heritage story on ancient monuments. Ishifunezuka is a keyhole-shaped tomb 46m long, where a boat-shaped stone coffin was found.
03The Kuromizu Family Residence is a town-designated chief retainer's house. It is a castle town where the 7th lord, Akizuki Tanehige, opened Meirindo; Takanabe Kagura is the collective name for kagura passed down at shrines in the former domain's territory, and Ishii Juji's birthplace is a prefectural historic site.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Takanabe Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗