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Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 37The Same Sugoroku Game All Across Japan!? Chibanosuke Guide They say the same illustration for the “Fukutoku Enman Sugoroku” game was used in various regions! But the shops shown on it were different in each town? Aye, it seems a publisher in Tokyo sold blank sugoroku boards—with only the pictures—to local newspapers across the country. The newspapers then sold the spaces as ad slots to local shops, matched them to the illustrations, printed the boards, and delivered them with the New Year’s edition. Quite the clever business model, indeed!

く残されることとなった。」 …oh, really? Isn't that a miracle? I thought that it was really amazing when I found out. This is exactly like a time capsule. I wonder if the person who noticed the fact at first felt the same. I'm sure that the person was thinking why everything was preserved so well here. …ええ？本当？奇跡じゃない？ この事実を知ったとき、本当にすごいと思った。 まさしくタ

JR Lines Office TEL Hours JR East Japan Telephone Center 050-2016-1601 Daily, 6時00分AM – 12時00分AM Chiba Station Lost & Found Center 043-222-1774 Daily, 9時00分AM – 8時00分PM Keisei Line Same day: the nearest Keisei station The following day or after: Lost & Found Desk of the head office (TEL 03-3621-2315, open Monday - Friday, 12時00分PM - 7時00分PM). Chiba Urban Monorail Station TEL Hours Chiba Station 043-221-7588 Daily, 5時30分AM – 11時30

sea. The Grand Head Shrine of Shinmei Shrine is Ise Jingū Shrine, which is associated with good luck and the Chiba Clan had long-established connections with Ise Jingū. It is said that Shinmei Shrine was built when the Chiba Clan moved their headquarters to Chiba, which was at the same time as which the Chiba Clan also donated part of their territory to Ise Jingū. The torii gate at Samugawa Shrine was once located at Myōkensu, a sandbar situated at the estuary of the Miyako River. It is said to have originally belonged to Shinmei Shrine and it

). Apart from being a defense installation, there is also a possibility that this part also served to anchor ships and unload cargo. Since most of the unearthed relics have been from the late 15th to early 16th century, it has been concluded that the Hamano Castle was active at the same time as when the Hara clan, senior vassals of the Chiba clan, were lords of the Oyumi Castle. It is believed that the Hara clan’s base being Oyumi Castle also played a role in Hamano’s being a central harbour to the Uchibo region. We can also

have been founded by Nichiko in 1312. The main street in medieval and early-modern Chiba was Hon-cho Avenue, which passed from Kongoju-ji Sonko-in Temple which worships Myoken, the Chiba Clan’s protective deity (present-day Chiba Shrine), to Yamato Bridge which crosses over Miyako River. The same street continues on to Ichiba-cho Avenue, towards Samugawa. The area around Hon-cho, situated in the east part of town, was mainly a collection of Nichiren Buddhist temples worshipped by merchants and artisans, signaling the development of Chiba as a city. このページの

was also quite talented at Waka poetry and he was the only successful family head to have had his poetry published in the Imperial Collection of waka poetry, the “shin senzai wakashu”. He died at the young age of 32 in 1365, and it is said that this was the same year in which Kotoku-ji Temple was built. However, Tanetaka was still young at this time and it is believed that after becoming an adult, he constructed the temple in memory of his father. The Hara clan was based in Oyumi Castle, in what is now known as

’m still growing, you know! Back then, horses stood about 130 centimeters tall at the shoulder— about the size of a modern pony. Even the famous warhorses in The Tale of the Heike were only a little over 140 centimeters. Bones found at samurai residences in Kamakura suggest the same size. Horses today are way bigger, right? Aye. Thoroughbreds, which are common today, stand around 160 centimeters tall. After the Meiji period, foreign breeds were imported and crossbred, which made horses in Japan larger. But only a few native breeds remain today, like the Kiso horse and the Hokkaido

Knowledge Spots｜Chibanosuke Guide 12Why Did Chiba Become a Thriving Town? Chibanosuke Guide I wonder what made Chiba grow into a town? It must be the same reason Lord Tsuneshige chose to settle here. Indeed! Roads from all over the Bōsō region converged here, and there was a port on Tokyo Bay— making it a perfect place for people and goods to come and go. And truth be told, that hasn’t changed one bit. Lord Tsuneshige had a keen eye, he did!

Clan and the Oyumi Kubō? Chibanosuke Guide Did the Chiba clan and Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the Oyumi Kubō, always fight each other? Not quite. Some members of the Chiba clan actually sided with Yoshiaki. In the Warring States period, it was quite common for people— even within the same family—to switch sides depending on what benefited them. ’Twas the way of the times. So the Chiba clan wasn’t exactly united, then.