出雲崎｜新潟県｜天領の町 妻入りの町並みが続く北国街道の宿場町 全長４kmの冬の出雲崎を歩いてみた｜良寛さんの町は日本石油発祥の地だった！｜DEFENDERで行く雪国ひとり旅【ぶらり#170】

I walked around Izumozaki, a town under the Tenryo system, known for its gabled streets. Izumozaki has long been a bustling post town on the Hokkoku Kaido road, and in the Edo period it was considered important as a landing point for gold and silver from Sado, and was a direct territory of the shogunate (Tenryo) where a magistrate's office was located. At the time, it was divided into two towns, Izumozaki Honmachi (Sumiyoshi-cho, Ishii-cho, Haguro-cho) and Amise (Iwafune-cho, Inari-cho, Ise-cho), each of which had its own headman (Tachibanaya and Kyoya), and a large gate was set up between the two towns. Izumozaki was also a port town that produced many wealthy merchants as a port of call for Kitamae ships, and after the Meiji period, Japan's first oil well was discovered here, making it known as the "birthplace of modern Japanese oil." Incidentally, the oil mining company that later became Nippon Oil, now ENEOS. Izumozaki's gabled streets, which stretch for about 4km, are a characteristic of Tenryo towns, where frontage was limited. At the time, taxes were imposed on the width of the frontage, so the streets were lined with narrow frontages (2 or 3.5 ken) and long gabled houses. Furthermore, on both ends of the town, there are "masugata" areas, where the road bends twice at right angles, remaining as relics of medieval strategic points and post towns. The scenery changes completely near the center of the settlement, with flat-fronted merchant houses, inns, and the mansions of wealthy merchants who prospered from the shipping industry continuing on through the streets, but beyond that the gabled streets begin again. [Table of Contents | Chapter] 00:00:00 Defender driving on snowy roads 00:01:21 Opening 00:02:41 Crossing the mountains in a heavy snow area - Takayanagi-cho, Kashiwazaki City 00:07:35 Detour to Oginoshima circular village 00:11:33 Arrived at Oginoshima 00:12:35 Tried to go around the village in the Defender 00:15:15 Departing from Oginoshima to Izumozaki 00:17:00 From Takayanagi-cho to Kashiwazaki city 00:21:05 Arriving at roadside station Echigo Izumozaki Tenryo no Sato 00:22:33 Evening drinks in the Defender and sleeping in the car 00:25:28 Waking up 00:26:56 The Sea of ​​Japan in the early morning 00:28:33 Start of the walk: Birthplace of the oil industry (site of Amise No. 1 well) 00:30:30 Streets and squares of Amise, Izumozaki 00:34:03 Net-ditch oil well C-2 00:35:10 Walking the streets of Izumozaki 00:37:51 Isemachi, Izumozaki 00:40:38 Inari Shrine 00:42:27 Sumiyoshimachi, Izumozaki 00:43:08 Iwafunemachi, Izumozaki 00:45:57 Ryokando 00:47:14 Remains of the red-light district of Izumozaki 00:48:46 Haguromachi, Izumozaki 00:51:57 Narutakimachi, Izumozaki 00:54:38 Kiorimachi, Izumozaki