Hiezu Village

Three dragons are carved above the hall.

Kayashima Shrine, dragon carving

Photo by Asturio Cantabrio (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kayashima Shrine

Once with parishioners from 29 villages,its grounds were set in order in the Meiji era.

Three dragons are carved above the worship hall (haiden) and its front porch, said to be late works by 小林如泥 (Kobayashi Jodei), a craftsman who served the lord of Matsue. The shrine once had parishioners from 29 villages, and eight buildings including the 1868 main hall are nationally registered tangible cultural properties.

Three dragon carvings in all (village-designated)
Parishioners from 29 villages (Tottori Shrine Agency)
Eight buildings, main hall included, nationally registered

02 ／ Hakushu Cotton Farming Tools

Hoes and buckets for cotton on sand,kept by the village's folk museum.

Cotton grown on sandy soil peaked in Hiezu in the Meiji era. The village's folk museum holds a water bucket for watering, a basket for the harvest, and a "cotton-sowing hoe" (wata-maki-kuwa) that drew the furrows for seed. The village's 18 items are prefecturally designated folk cultural properties.

Cotton farming peaked in the Meiji era
18 village-owned items prefecturally designated in 2023
No matching hoe confirmed in the farm manual 綿圃要務 (Menpo Yomu) (prefecture, 2008)

03 ／ Goshinden Development Monument

Muddy water from winter kanna-nagashiwas led in to make new fields on sand.

The Imayoshi new fields cover about 40 hectares. Ueda Hikosaburo, who eyed wasteland on the right bank of the Hino River, had muddy water from the upstream winter kanna-nagashi (カンナ流し) channeled in and poured onto the sand. The work began in 1845 and ran over ten years; the new village was named Imayoshi.

New fields of about 40 hectares
Work began in 1845 and lasted over ten years
Used muddy water from winter kanna-nagashi upstream on the Hino River

Living here

4.20 km², a seaside village ringed by Yonago.

about 4,000 people
Rural district town

The village measures 1.8 km east to west and 2.9 km north to south, with the Sea of Japan to the north and the Hino River to the west. The nearest railway station is Hoki-Daisen, in Yonago. The circular bus "Mainichi Loop" (まいにちループ), run by Hinomaru Jidosha and Nihon Kotsu from Yonago Station, also loops through the village. Rather than merge with its neighbors, Hiezu chose to remain independent, and it backs childcare with a goal of no children on waiting lists.

People living here: 3,501people
Area: 4.2km²
Households: 1,243households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 5 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

Surrounded by 1 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Hiezu Village in Japan35.440°N 133.381°E

Territory of Hiezu Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

3.0km

米子市

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

Hiezu Village isthis kind of town.

01Hiezu is a village on the lower Hino River, home to Kayashima Shrine (蚊屋島神社), whose worship hall carries three carved dragons above it.
02Its folk museum holds farm tools from cotton growing on sand, including the cotton-sowing hoe, and Imayoshi has a monument to new fields opened with muddy water from upstream kanna-nagashi.
03Facing the Sea of Japan to the north and surrounded by Yonago elsewhere, the 4.20 km² village has chosen to stay independent.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Hiezu Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗