Place

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Todoroki-Suigen

I am going to introduce the famous place of Uto. There is a place that Todoroki Suigen near my local. It is known for the place that can be drink fresh water. The place is elected to Meisui Hyakusen that places where condition of maintenance good and do maintenance activity regularly by local people at spring water, river and under ground water elected by The Ministry of the Environment.

The Todoroki Suigen’s water works made three hundred years ago, on other words, Edo Era. In those days, the Bourg of the place’s water quality was not good very well. So, made a plan that make a channel of water 4.8 kilo meters with earthen pipe that length is forty three centimeter and the shape is circle. It was completed 1663. But after one hundred years, the condition of water works became bad. So, it was repaired that replace to sluice way of stone. The repair was large scale so, took heavy cost, but the stone sluice way not easy to break more over, and became easy that the management of Todoroki Suigen because applied the tube that form combination.

Todoroki Suigen is oldest water works as it use even now in existence in Japan. But we can drink clean water any time and one hundred twenty home use it. On the summer time, we can drink cold water, but we can drink a little bits hot water on the winter time at there.

Todoroki Suigen is admitted historical value like this, elected Meisui Hyakusen. I seldom to go there, but I will learn many things from it next time because I researched it this time.

Senba-bashi

Senba-bashi made end of the Edo era. This bridge is spanned on the Senba River. This Historical Bridge is 13.7m length, 4.1m width. The material of this bridhge is stone that colored pink.This bridge is pride of perfect archtecture and trace the beautiful arch curve line.

It is called Makado-ishi from local people. This stone had mining at Amizu town in Uto from Edo era to Show-wa era. This stone's charactaristic is especially pink's color tone. This stone is utilize as not only Senba-bashi but also water pipe, shrine gate and stone pavement. This sone also has ash, Black color because the color hue is defferent from its point of digging.

Interestingly, Makado-ishi had used for stone coffin in Cohun era(1500years ago) which even found four place at Uto Penisula and Okayama, Osaka, Nara,Shiga prefecture. But the Mystery that why and how the stone carried far away is unclear even now.

This is the Historical Bridge, Senba-bashi

This is the Shrine that made of Makado-ishi

This water pipe is also used the pink stone.

Ouda-Yaki Ouda-Yaki begun from 1792. The Beginning of the works were good fineness and high quality and these beautiful staff were burned for some lord in Kumamoto. Ouda-yaki made based on the protection of Higo-Hosokawa clan. But other type of pottery was gradually mass-producted. So,Ouda-yaki's production stopped the begining of Show-wa era. Because of this, Ouda-yaki is called phantasmal pottery.

The prior period of Ouda-yaki was dipected orchid, tree peony,Japanese cherry and butterfly. The latter period the pottery was used clay and made pipkin, dirt doll and flower pot.

Now, The facility built a resource center of Ouda-yaki. The inner of building is exhibit not only some Ouda-yaki but also other historical staff like commodities,weapons.