A walk-only island village lined with “Mise-zukuri” / Walk around the island village Pacific Ocean Tebajima (Tokushima Prefecture)
Debajima is located in Muroto-Anan Quasi-National Park, about 3.7km south of Mugi Port, 15 minutes by sea by liner. From the lighthouse observatory in the southern part of the island, you can see the Pacific Ocean to the south, Oshima and Tsushima, mecca for surf fishing to the east, and Cape Muroto to the west. In the old days, it was also called 'Teba' or 'Dewa'. It is said that in the second year of the Kansei era (1800), people who moved from the Mugi area of the Shikoku mainland under the encouragement of immigration by the Tokushima Domain opened the area. In modern times, it prospered as a large production area for bonito fishing and bonito flakes, with a population of nearly 1,000 in the early Showa period. Today, the island is rich in tropical atmosphere with the scent of hibiscus and has three promenade routes. There is a monument inscribed with a poem written by Ujo Noguchi at the ferry terminal, and the ``Dewajima Oike Shiratamamo'' (a nationally designated natural monument), which can only be seen in four places on earth, grows wild in Oike. In recent years, exhibitions of sculptures, quilts, and paintings, as well as contemporary art, have been held to revitalize the island. In 2017, the scenery of the townscape, where the main houses of fishing houses of all sizes and styles are lined up, was highly evaluated, and was selected as an Important Preservation District for Traditional Buildings by the national government (judenken). (Refer to "Shimadasu")
With the start of full-scale immigration in the late Edo period, settlements were formed around the port using the cove in the northern part of the island. The traditional main house from the end of the Edo period to the early Showa period remains well preserved, and together with the historical land division that shows the transition of the expansion of the village, it conveys the scenic beauty of a traditional fishing village on a remote island. The style of the old private house is characterized by the structure of the opening called “Mise-zukuri”. It is a hashirama device that combines two wooden doors, Uwamise and Shitamise, and when it rains, it becomes a shutter. But also. And the biggest attraction of this island is that it has not been harmed by motorization, that is, there are no cars. Neither the village nor the buildings have been modified to allow cars to run, and the appearance of the walking era is maintained.
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