Hitomaru

The land on the south side of the coastal terrace is low, but the north area is slightly elevated around Hitomaru.  After medieval, at the south area the serving as a stage and the castle town, also developed into town serving as a stage and the castle town, also developed into government office area as well as the commercial area.  While at the north area they couldn’t grow rice because of Seto Inland Sea Climate and plateau, but after early modern times they increased ponds and farm lands.  Okuradani Village, O-Akashi Village and Nakanosho Village were located on the south land and Taidera at the north area was called Taidera of the section of Okuradani Village before the construction of Akashi Castle.  Rich people in the south seemed to develop mainly the north area, because many people in Okura-cho have their farm land at Asagiri, Higashino-cho and Taidera.  From the year of 1920 to 1940 it became fadaish that people who succeeded of business built their own house, so Uenomaru and Taidera became popular residential area because pf convenient places with easy access to public transportation and good view.  In 1927, the first Land Readjustment Project in Akashi City began at Uenomaru and Taidera, and then the north land increased in value of housing site more and more.

Taira-no-Tadanori was Taira-no-Kiyomori’s youngest brother and a general of samurai.  He studied under Fujiwara Shunzei and was a good tanaka poet too.  It is said that Taira clan was defeated in the Battle of Ichi-no-tani in 1184 and he was killed near the Ryoma River.  -shot 1- This is the stone monument of the Ryoma, two horses, River.  Since both he and Okabe Rokutaya Tadazumi fought each other on the horses there, the river was named the Ryoma River.  It’s reported that this stone monument was made of the stone of Ryoma Bridge and Megane Bridge over the river once.  -shot 2- This is Ude-zuka, the grave marker of right arm, Shrine.  They held a memorial service for Tadanori’s right arm cut in the fight.  After the Meiji Restoration the grave was replaced into the shrine.  -shot 3- This is the signpost which showed Ude-zuka Route that led people to Ude-zuka from the highway.  -shot 4- This is Tadanori-zuka.  They buried Tadanori’s body and built the five-part gravestone.  There is the stone monument carved the tanaka poem made by Matsudaira Tadakuni, the 5th feudal lord of the Akashi domain, who restored the grave marker fallen into ruin.  They say that there is the Uma-zuka, the grave of Taira-no-Tsunemasa’s horse too.  He was a tanka poet and Taira-no-Kiyomori’s nephew and Taira-no-Atsumori’s older brother.  The tanka poet seemed to want to die at the place associated with the master of tanka poem Kakinomoto Hitomaro.  The local people have maintained those historic sites carefully as their treasure continuously.