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20413 ／てんりゅうむら

Nagano Prefecture 下伊那郡

Tenryu Village

A set-square slope averaging about 27°.

Nakaisamurai tea fields

Photo by Nunu (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Shimotsuki Kagura

A kagura of boiling water and danceis kept at three places in one village.

The Agency for Cultural Affairs records that it is performed at three places: the Sakabe winter festival, the Mukagata purification festival and the festival of the shrine at Okochi. Masked dances are richer at Sakabe and absent at Okochi, and the village says Mukagata is a yudate kagura without masks.

Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, designated 22 May 1978
Sakabe winter festival, 4 January
Mukagata purification festival, 3 January

02 ／ Shikaoi rite

A hunter's part shoots a pair ofstraw targets made to look like deer.

A rite of the spring festival at the Okochi shrine, performed to drive off the birds and beasts that harm crops, the Agency for Cultural Affairs records. It was selected on 20 December 1984 as an intangible folk cultural property for which recording measures should be taken. The village says the deer have straw bodies, maple legs and antlers, and cedar-board tongues.

Selected 20 December 1984
Held on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month
Straw bodies, maple legs and antlers, cedar tongues

03 ／ Teizanasu

Named for the man who began growing it,a big aubergine that can reach 1 kg.

Teizanasu in Tenryu Village — Photo by TSK-132 (Public domain)

The village records that a man named Taizawa in Kamihara is said to have ordered seed from a Tokyo seed shop around 1887 (Meiji 20) and begun growing it. It is called Taizawa nasu after him, and Teizanasu locally; it can be harvested from July to November.

Said to have begun around 1887 (Meiji 20)
Harvested July to November
Can reach 1 kg

Tenryu Village 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 March–May 2020)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

A purely mountain village, with settlements in V-shaped valleys.

about 1,000 people
Rural district town

The village states that over 90 percent of its area is forest, with settlements scattered in the V-shaped gorges cut by the Tenryu River and its tributaries. The village office is in Hiraoka at 308 m, and Hiraoka Station on the JR Iida Line is the village's gateway. A village bus is listed between Hiraoka Post Office and Okochi, four round trips a day.

People living here: 1,178people
Area: 109.44km²
Households: 563households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 2 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —1 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 5 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Tenryu Village in Japan35.276°N 137.854°E

Territory of Tenryu Village

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

12.6km

Nagano Prefecture: Anan Town, Iida City, Yasuoka Village
Aichi Prefecture: Toyone Village
Shizuoka Prefecture: Hamamatsu City

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

Tenryu Village isthis kind of town.

01The village describes the Nakaisamurai tea fields as a slope with a height difference of 365 m and an average gradient of about 27 degrees; tea fields line the road called the Seven Bends, from top to bottom. The village says hand-picking still remains
02The Shimotsuki Kagura of Tenryu Village is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and the Shikaoi rite of Okochi is a national selected intangible folk cultural property. The village's list also gives the Shimoina kake odori (Sakabe, Mukagata, Okochi) as a national selected property
03Teizanasu is the Taizawa nasu of Kamihara. The village also has the kanzakura cherry at Ina-Kozawa Station, the village-designated autumn festival of Mitsushima Shrine, and reports of the migratory Oriental dollarbird

See the town as it is now.

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

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