Umanoashi Park

In 1997, using the Towa Town Mountainous Area Revitalization Project Subsidy and with the cooperation of landowners, it was completed as a regional rural park. This place has been a place with rich scenery since ancient times, and is home to a large number of aquatic creatures such as Fudo Falls in the mountain stream and freshwater fish and fireflies that prefer clear streams.The park has been turned into a park and has been widely used as a place of relaxation for local residents and other citizens. ing. In particular, there is a large rock with "horse hoof prints" in the mountain stream, which dates back to the Daido era (806-808), when Sakanoue Tamuramaro, the Seii Taishogun, built the Masubuchi Bato Kannondo. He went on a scenic tour of the area, and it is said to be the hoof prints left by the shogun's famous horse, "Satoguro," and it is also a legendary place, which is the basis for the place's name, "Uma-no-Ashi."

There is also a mound on a small mountain opposite the park. This mound is called "Umanoashizuka," and it is a medieval mound built in the shape of a round tumulus, 4 meters in diameter and 1 meter in height. Around the mound are 42 *plate monuments. This monuments was erected between the 3rd year of Gentoku and the 2nd year of Entoku (1331-1490). Similar monuments remain in the Masubuchi area other than here, and it is thought that this area was inhabited by samurai and other ruling class people in the Middle Ages. 

*Itahi (stone monuments) is also read as "Itahi" and "Banpi." The peak period of construction was from the Kamakura period (around 1250) to the Muromachi period (around 1470). It is a stone stupa. There are memorial services for the dead, and Gyakushu memorial services built during life. Most of the tablet monuments in southern Iwate Prefecture and northern Miyagi Prefecture are made of Inai stone from Ishinomaki.

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