Title: 川崎歴史ガイド ⊗ 津久井道と忻形稢址 “Kawasaki History Guide: Tsukui Highway and Masugata Castle”
川崎歴史ガイド = Kawasaki History Guide. 津久井道と忻形稢址 means:
津久井道 Tsukui Highway / Tsukui-michi 津久井みち
と and
枡形城 忻形稢址 Masugata Castle (Masugata-jo / ますがたじょう) (map)
Part I: the map’s title
(1) 津久井道 Tsukui Highway
The Tsukui Highway was an Edo-era road used for commerce and everyday life. Japanese Wikipedia and an educational website for children (sponsored by McDonald’s) describe the products transported on this road, which included silk 絹, a special type of persimmon 「 禅寺丸柿 」, and Kurokawa charcoal 黒川炭 made in the forests of the Tama hills 多摩丘陵の森林. The silk was likely from nearby Sagamihara, a silk center
For more about the charcoal, see this passage written in 1903 from Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century.
(2) Masugata Castle 枡形城
Masugata-jo (ますがたじょう) was a mountain castle 山城 in the hills of what is now Ikuta-Ryokuchi-Park 生田緑地 (map). There’s a an observation tower from which you can see central Tokyo and the Landmark Tower in Yokohama.
Part II: the map, annotated
Items on the map include:
- Ikuta-Ryokuchi-Park 生田緑地 (Ikuta Green Space)
- Several stone markers, e.g. here: (map)
- Noborito Station 登戸駅
- Mukogaokayuen Station 向ヶ丘遊園駅
- Nikaryousui Canal 二ヶ領用水 / 二ヶ領本川
- Gotanda River
- Tamagawa River
Part III: Google Maps
A fellow map-lover put together the following map of what I understand is the full 津久井道 Tsukui Highway / Tsukui-michi 津久井みち:
See also:
Nearby items of interest:
- (K2) Takatsu-ku ento-bunsui walking map (Kawasaki) 円筒分水と久地不動尊コース
- (C1) Nikaryousui Canal, Kawasaki 二ヶ領用水 / 二ヶ領本川
- Photo: picnic along the Tamagawa river near Noborito Station
- Japan Open-Air Folk House Museum / 川崎市立日本民家園 (Kawasaki Municipal Nihon Minka-en)
More about charcoal:
- Japan’s Charcoal Making Traditions Still Alive
- Kurokawa’s charcoal (Ikeda coal / Ikeda-zumi) 黒川の菊炭(池田炭)
- Drawing, 1878: 池田炭−摂津の国のクヌギの木炭 Ikeda charcoal – Charcoal of Kunugi in the country of Settsu
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