Izu Nagaoka Onsen travel guide (Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace, Egawa residence, Ganjouju-in temple)

Izu Nagaoka Onsen travel guide (Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace, Egawa residence, Ganjoju-in temple)

This is the video about Izu Nagaoka Onsen. There is a UNESCO World Heritage site (Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace).

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1.The Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces
The Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces (HANSHARO in Japanese) were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2015 as one of the “ sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution”. These furnaces were built in the closing days of the SAMURAI era to make iron cannon to defend the Japanese coast against the western threat. Thanks to this iron making technology, Japan was able to achieve a rapid Industrial Revolution in just half a century.

2.Egawa residence
The Egawa Residence was the family home of Lord Egawa Hidetatsu who was the governor of this area. Egawa Hidetatsu built the Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces in 1854. He played an especially important role in Japan’s history at the end of the 19th century.

3. Ganjouju-in temple
This temple whose full name is ‘Tenshukunzan Ganjoujuin’ belongs to the Koyasan Shingon sect of Japanese esoteric Buddhism. The temple was established in 1189AD in the early Kamakura Era by Houjou Tokimasa who named it Ganjoujuin. He was the father of Houjou Masako, the wife of Minamotono Yoritomo who became the first Shogun of the Kamakura Era.
In 1186AD, one year after the fall of the Heike Clan, Unkei, then in his mid-thirties, completed these five statues. For Unkei, who was based in Nara, this was his first work in the eastern area of Japan now known as Kantou. He carved them in a realistic, expressive and muscular new style that marked the beginning of a distinctive Kamakura sculptural style making these statues a milestone in the history of Japanese sculpture.

1.2 are from Izunokuni city web site.
https://www.city.izunokuni.shizuoka.jp/bunka_bunkazai/guido.html

3 is from Ganjouju-in web site
https://ganjoujuin.jp/english.html

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0:00 intro
0:20 Moving from Tokyo to Izunagaoka city
1:14 Nirayama Reverberatory Furnace
4:36 Soba restaurant
5:12 Egawa residence
8:42 Remains of a stone quarry & Source of a hot spring in Kona district
9:40 Hotel new Hakkei-en (Onsen ryokan)
11:21 Dinner in Hotel new Hakkei-en (Onsen ryokan)
13:29 Mt.Fuji view from the guest room
13:53 Breakfast in new Hakkei-en (Onsen ryokan)
14:59 Ganjouju-in temple
17:55 Final view of Mt.Fuji