Agricultural Improvement

慈恩寺最上院日記 上, 下（寒河江市史編纂委員会編） The Oe clan was a clan that ruled over what is now Sagae City and Nishimurayama County from the Kamakura to the Sengoku period. The first ruler, Hiromoto OE, served Minamoto no Yoritomo, who established the Kamakura Shogunate, and is also known as the person who consolidated the foundations of the Shogunate. The fourth son, Suemitsu, had a descendant, Motonari Mori. 【Product name】 Silver Bell 【Type】 Pyrus communis var.sativa 【Wholesale area】 Nitta Gotan, Sagae City, Yamagata Prefecture (Marumatsu Producers Shipping Association, Marumatsu Seika Co., Ltd.) 【Origin of name】 It is a cultivar of La France’s sport, found in the La France field, and it ripens in the season covered with silver snow with the “bell” of the breeder Mr. Torao SUZUKI, and it resembles the shape of a Christmas bell. It seems that it was named. 【Major features】 The Sagae Festival, which is held in mid-September every year, is an event with history and tradition as an annual festival of Saga...

御神酒合わせ・三三九度（おみきあわせ・さんさんくど） 【Product name】 Yutoku Mandarin Orange 【Type】 Citrus L. 【Wholesale area】 Kashima City, Saga Prefecture（JA Saga Midori District） 【Origin of the name】 Named after "Yutoku Inari Shrine（倉稲魂大神, 大宮売大神, 猿田彦大神）", the god of the prosperous business rush of business, famous as one of Japan's three major Inari shrines; Three generations of Kyushu god of cereals. 【Major features】 Hizen Hamashuku Sake Brewery Street in Kashima City (A region that developed mainly in the brewing industry of sake and soy sauce from the Edo period to the Showa period. In 2006, it was selected as a national "Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings"): 300 years The Crucian carp market, a traditional Kashima city event, was held in the early morning of January 19, 2023 at Sake Brewery Street in Hizen Hamashuku. Funankogui, a local dish of crucian carp wrapped in kombu seaweed, is served on the 20th New Year (in the New Year's season, this d...

Princess Himiko ≒  魏志倭人伝→襄荷 【Product name】 japanese zinger 【Type】 Zingiber mioga (Thunb.) Roscoe 【Producing area】 Part of Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture (former Atsumi Town, former Fujishima Town, former Haguro Town, former Kushihiki Town, former Asahi Village), Shonai Town, Higashitagawa District (former Amarume Town, former Tachikawa Town), Mikawa Town (JA Shonai Tagawa, Delicious Yamagata) 【Origin of name】 The Buddha's disciple (one of the sixteen Arhats), Shuri Handoku Chula Pantaka, was very poorly remembered and sometimes even forgot his name. So I wrote my name and hung it around my neck. After his death, grass grew in the graveyard, so he named it 名荷; 茗荷. 【Major features】 The Shonai Town, Higashitagawa District election (Yamagata Prefecture) was announced on June 14, 2022 due to the expiration of the term of office, and 20 people will run for the fixed number of 14, 14 incumbents, and 6 newcomers will fight. By party, there are 1 communist, 19 independents, and 5 women....

Onuki Castle: Apparently it was a castle placed for the defense of the western side of the Kizaki-Takeda clan territory. 1.5 km east of the castle is the West Building, which was the western defense of Shinmei Castle, and just southeast of it. The plateau on which the castle is located is nearly 20 meters high and juts out greatly to the southwest. It seems that one enclosure was placed near the tip of this area, and a horizontal moat was placed around it. In the middle of the Muromachi period, Nobuhisa, the younger brother of Nobumitsu Takeda, the guardian of Kai, moved to Takei Village, Hitachi Province (Takeda, Namegata City) and settled there. It seems that he has returned to his ancestral hometown, although the location is different. From then on, he used Shinmei Castle (Uchijuku, Namegata City) as his base and took advantage of the turbulent times of the Sengoku period to steadily expand his influence into the surrounding areas. In particular, Tsushin, the eighth generation, is s...