A red-roofed island village formed in a depression on a hill ／ Walk around the island village,Sea of Japan, Aishima (Yamaguchi Prefecture)
An island 14km off the coast of Hagi City. Many legends of Heike refugees remain. In the past, it was also written as "Ajima". An old document from Oi Hachiman Shrine in 1508 (Eisho 5) records that this island also made donations at that time, and it is possible to see that at the end of the Muromachi period, along with the 20 districts of Abu County, the island made donations of agricultural products and labor to the shrine. From the Kan'ei period, as with Oshima, the Hagi Domain's ship-policing officers controlled ships entering and leaving the Hagi coast. Also, at the end of the Edo period, Ainoshima Tomi was established to watch over the arrival of the black ships, and a guard post and a cannon battery were also established as maritime defense for the Hagi Domain. Currently, it is known as a producer of watermelons and tobacco leaves.
When you look at the island from the sea, you cannot see any settlements anywhere. The port only has huts and other facilities, and the entire settlement is located in a depression on the plateau. After getting off the boat at the port, we walked up a hill, but there were only terraced fields and we wondered where the houses were, and we were worried. But once we passed the shrine at the entrance to the village, the view suddenly opened up and we could see the whole village, covered with red roofing tiles. Then we saw the housing sites carefully built with stone walls and the well-built houses that had prospered through agriculture. It was a truly dramatic sequence of the village.
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