Walking Along the Nankaido
Course 1Across the Matsuchiyama
- JR Suda Station
- Akai-kan ruins
- Tobikoeishi
- Matsuchiyama
- Taisi-no ido
- Sumidagawara
- Suda Hachiman Shrine
- Rishogokokuji temple
- Kuragari-toge
- Tsumano-mori
- Old Hashimoto-honjin Ikenaga-ke house
- Kosada abandoned temple ruins
- Misasagiyama Kofun
- Ogaji temple
- Yamato-kaido Road signpost
- Ougadai-jinja
- Ichiwaki Oga Kofun-gun
- Ogano
- Zenzaka-jo castle ruins
- The site of the tower of Konono-ji abandoned temple
- Hikino-ike pond
- Sansai-tsubo archeological sites
- Ichiri matsu
- Nagoso abandoned temple ruins
- The view place of the Mt. Seyama and Mt. Imoyama
- Old Katsuragi-kan
- JR Koya-guchi Station
- Course 2
Tsumano-mori
Going down west after passing the Tsumano-mori area, you will soon approach the Ogano area which many Manyo songs were sung. It is just west of Hashimoto City; the area between Toge and Ichiwaki. The name can be found in the manor called the “Ogano-shou” from back in the Heian period to the Sengoku era.
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Kinokuni-ni yamazu kayowamu Tsumano-mori tsuma-yoshikosene tsuma-toiinagara according to one theory, tsuma-tamahanimo tsuma-toiinagara I will visit Kinokuni again and again. So please, the God of Tsuma-no-Mori, grant me a wife since you have the word Tsuma (wife) in your name. |
（No9、1679） |
Tsumano-mori（Tsuma, Hashimoto city）
The thirteen Wakas that was composed in the winter of 701, when the Emperors Ohokisumeramikoto and Sakinosumeramikoto visited Kinokuni.
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Meaning
I will visit Kinokuni again and again. So please, the God of Tsuma-no-Mori, grant me a wife since you have the word Tsuma (wife) in your name.
This Waka is a “place praising song” during the trip by means of greeting the land they were visiting, playing with the word “妻 Tsuma (kanji for wife)” used in the name of the place.
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