Higashiyoshino Village

Modeled on other wolves and documents.

Wolf statue, Washikaguchi

Photo by Gohachiyasu1214 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Signpost

A signpost pointing to Edo standsat the junction of two highways.

The Washika signpost was erected in Bunsei 11 (1828). The tourism association records that it stands at a key point where the Ise Highway over Takami Pass and the Higashi-Kumano Highway meet. Its south face is carved with directions to Ise and Edo on the right and to Hase and Osaka on the left; its east face points to Kishu Koya and to Mt. Omine. The back records the year and the donor.

Bunsei 11 (1828)
South face: Edo and Osaka
East face: Kishu Koya

02 ／ Waterfall

Seven falls, seven pools; named forthe proverb, the Eight-Pool Falls.

The village describes Nanataki Yatsubo as a varied waterfall: it has seven falls and seven pools, but was named "eight pools" after the proverb "fall seven times, get up eight." In the Omata gorge are also Uotome Falls, above which fish cannot climb, and Nageshi Falls, which drops about 15 m in a plume of spray and is also called Fudo Falls.

Seven falls, seven pools
Proverb: fall seven times, get up eight
Nageshi Falls, about 15 m

03 ／ Yakushi hall

A small gassho-style hall, builtwithout nails, with a Noh-stage interior.

The Yakushi hall of Tenshoji Temple is a Nara Prefecture designated building. The prefecture's list of designated cultural properties dates it to Tensho 12 in the Momoyama period, and it was designated on 28 March 1971. The village and the tourism association describe a gassho-style building using no nails, with an interior in the form of a Noh stage, housing the principal image of Yakushi Nyorai. The tourism association writes that Sekiteian, the house of the poet Hara Sekitei, is next door to the west of the temple.

Prefectural designation, 28 March 1971
Momoyama period (Tensho 12)
Interior in Noh-stage form

Living here

From Haibara Station, about 40 minutes by connecting bus.

about 2,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the village. The village says it is about 40 minutes by connecting bus from the nearest station, Haibara Station (in Uda City). On the weekday timetable revised on 3 July 2021 that the village posts, the Nara Kotsu bus from Haibara Station to Higashiyoshino Village Office takes 43 minutes. The village's profile gives its area as 131.65 km2, of which 126.02 km2 is forest land.

People living here: 1,502people
Area: 131.65km²
Households: 762households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —0 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 6 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Higashiyoshino Village in Japan34.403°N 135.968°E

Territory of Higashiyoshino Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

15.1km

Nara Prefecture: 川上村, 宇陀市, 吉野町, 御杖村, 曽爾村
Mie Prefecture: 松阪市

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

Higashiyoshino Village isthis kind of town.

01The Japanese wolf statue is a life-size bronze that Higashiyoshino Village put up in 1987 at Ogawa (formerly Washikaguchi). A pamphlet from the village board of education quotes the sculptor as saying that, because the wolf can no longer be seen today, he first had to make a model from other wolves and documents. The village writes that the skull and pelt of the wolf obtained at Washikaguchi in January 1905 by the American Anderson are preserved at the Natural History Museum in London
02The Washika signpost is a stone pillar of Bunsei 11 that the village describes as the westernmost signpost pointing to Edo. Nanataki Yatsubo is a waterfall in Omata named after the proverb "fall seven times, get up eight"
03Tenshoji Temple's Yakushi hall is a prefecturally designated building. Niukawakami Shrine (Nakasha) has a stone lantern that is a national Important Cultural Property (designated 1963), and the tourism association writes that eight drum floats from eight districts gather in its grounds at the Ogawa Festival. Mt. Takami, on the border with Mie Prefecture, is said by the village to be known for its winter rime

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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