2023年8月18日金曜日

Tendo City is promoting community development with a focus on promoting the Japanese chess industry and popularizing shogi. Tendo Sakura Tree Festival Ningen Japanese Chess: Set on Mt. Maizuru, where approximately 2,000 cherry blossom trees are in full bloom, Tendo professional shogi players compete on an extra-large Japanese chess board with samurai warriors dressed in armor and kimonos and their waistcoats acting as chess pieces. Big event in the city. Japanese chess×soccer collaboration event: In conjunction with Montedio Yamagata Tendo Citizens Support Day, professional shogi players from the Japan Japanese Chess Association will be present to hold instructional games and collaborative events in an event unique to the Japanese chess town of Tendo. Japanese chess festival: Strong amateur amateurs from all over the country gather to compete for the position of the representative of the southern Tohoku region of the national amateur KING tournament "Yasuharu Oyama (Birthplace: Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, Date of Birth: March 13, 1923, Date of Death : July 26, 1992, Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture) This is an annual festival that hosts the 15th Meijin Cup Shogi Tournament and the Citizens' Japanese Chess Tournament where beginners to intermediate players compete. 2018 (World Record Challenge): On October 14, 2018, the number of simultaneous shogi games was held with the aim of transmitting to the world the wealth for future children and "Tendo, the town of Japanese chess." I challenged the world record and set a world record of 2,362 stations. Comic "March Comes in Like a Lion: Chika UMINO (Japanese comic house and coterie writer. Born in Adachi Ward, Tokyo. Supervised by shogi player Manabu Sakizaki. Serialized from 2007 issue 14 in "Young Animal" (Hakusensha Co., Ltd.). As of January 2022, the cumulative number of copies has exceeded 10 million.)” Collaboration with the popular manga “March Lion”, in which professional shogi players are active, limited novelties, original illustrations for Tendo City, sightseeing Various activities such as pamphlets are being carried out. Tendo City Japanese chess museum: The only museum in Japan dedicated to Japanese chess is attached to JR Tendo Station. There are various exhibits from chaturanga, which is said to be the birthplace of shogi, to modern shogi pieces. You can also see the history of the Tendo Sakura Tree Festival "Human Japanese chess''.

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A core business that contributes to the promotion of regional agriculture and the improvement of the farming life of cooperative members. In...
2023年8月14日月曜日

In 1181 (Jisho 5), Yoshimori Wada played an active role as a master archer in the Battle of Ashiyaura in Bungo（March 4, 1185）and in the suppression of Kyushu, and supported Minamoto no Yoritomo. It is still a historical fact that he sided with Minamoto no Yoritomo. In 1184, Minamoto Noriyori, the half-brother of Minamoto no Yoritomo (in May 28, 1193, when the Soga brothers killed each other, there was a rumor that Yoritomo was assassinated. However, at that time, he advised Yoritomo's wife, Masako HOJO, that he was in good health, and Genji's generation was safe. He was exiled to Izu on August 17.) went on an expedition to Kyushu to banish the Taira clan, and Yoshimori served as military magistrate. As Noriyori was a cautious person, it is said that he consulted with Yoshimori about the war. However, the expeditionary force fell into food shortages and could not go to Kyushu without a ship, and the battle became bogged down. Yoshimori and his party finally obtained a ship, went to Bungo Province, and finally destroyed the Taira family in the Battle of Dannoura in 1185.

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A place related to the Miura clan. Yoshimori Wada (1147-1213) was the first head of the Kamakura Shogunate. It is said to have been his resi...
2023年7月28日金曜日

The old couple said, “Let’s name him Momotaro (Peach-boy) as he was born from a peach.” One day, the old man went into the woods to gather firewood and the old woman went to the river to do laundry. When the old woman was washing clothes at the river, a giant peach came floating down the stream and she picked it up. She brought it back home so that she could eat it with the old man. They cut the peach, a healthy baby boy jumped out from the peach! Both the old man and woman were glad because they had no child. They named the boy “MOMOTARO” for he was born from a peach. They raised him with a lot of love. When Momotaro turned fifteen years old, he was the strongest in the village.

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Jugoro Okubo was born in 1867 on a farm in Kama Murayama, Iwanashi District (now Shiona, Seto Town, Higashi Ward, Okayama City). When he was...