Ryugasaki City Museum of History and Folklore - Ryugasaki

You can see the history of Ryugasaki City with "Free admission" ?. After visiting here, if you go around the city, you will get a different perspective and it will be fun ? ✋

"Dragon? Dragon? Which?" It is a very well-built museum. The history of Ryugasaki, from the Jomon archaeological site excavated in the city to the medieval Shimokawabe-Toki rule, from the Sendai Date feudal clan in the Edo period to the modern Sanuki New Town, is exhibited and explained in a considerable volume. In addition, the relocated old folk houses and merchant houses, and the SL that was active on the Kantetsu Ryugasaki Line are also exhibited outside. I would like to introduce two trivia of the common sense of local people in Ryugasaki City. 1. Ushiku Swamp is Ryugasaki City! Famous eels and bass fishing, Ushiku Swamp (in part) famous for the legend of Kappa, in fact, unlike the name, all of them are in Ryugasaki City. In the Edo period, while Nitta development was being carried out in various places in order to solve the food shortage in the city of Edo, where the population was explosively increasing, there was also a reclamation project for Ushiku Swamp. The business was promoted by Shobei Sakurai, a wealthy farmer in Ryugasaki. He has been engaged in the reclamation of Ushiku Swamp for 36 years, but he was frustrated because the lake surface was low and the drainage was very poor. Shobei borrowed a large amount of money from the Shogunate for this project, but he could not repay it, and the people of Ryugasaki had no choice but to repay it in place of Shobei. Therefore, it seems that Ushiku Swamp is still the city area of ​​Ryugasaki City. In addition, both Ryugasaki City and Ushiku City have the town name "Shobee Shinden", but it seems that a part of the reclamation by Shobee became the place name as it is. 2. Ryugasaki? Ryugasaki? The official name of the city is "Ryugasaki". Both elementary and junior high schools are "Ryugasaki Municipal 〇〇 elementary (junior high) schools". However, when it comes to high school, the kanji changes from "Ibaraki Prefectural Ryugasaki 〇〇 High School" to "dragon" instead of "dragon". Also, the "ke" is small. Why is this? The city reported it to the country as "Ryugasaki", but the prefecture had a rule that "only use common kanji", so the emergency kanji "dragon" at that time could not be used and the character "dragon" was used. (In addition, "dragon" is also a common kanji now). For that reason, in addition to the prefectural high school, the station name is also "Dragon" Gasaki, and the various facilities are different in "Dragon" and "Dragon". There was no opinion about the size of "ke"). This is called the Sakamoto Ryoma problem (no, I named it and made it a problem), and it is often confused in the world. By the way, this problem is Ryotaro Shiba's novel "Ryoma Goes His Way", and I dared to use a kanji different from his real name, "Ryoma Sakamoto", to draw it as fiction. Is "Ryugasaki City" also a fiction? Virtual city? The city of Micra?

Free. I visited Ryugasaki while I was there. The exhibits were beautiful and I was surprised that this town was the territory of the Date clan. I thought it would be nice to feel the history that the Subaru 360 in the hall, old locomotives, farm tools, and other items that were thrown away as garbage in ordinary households can be collected in this way.

Careful commentary and analysis of the material is a headache. It is said that the influence of Masamune Date had reached Ryugasaki. The weaving demonstration was also interesting and I had a fulfilling time. Thank you.

I wanted to see the retro exhibits in the hall, but I saw only the locomotive because it was too quiet and I needed courage to enter.

The museum preserves the steam locomotive that was manufactured in 1925 and was used on the Ryugasaki Railway (currently the Kanto Railway Ryugasaki Line) until 1971. It is interesting to note that the locomotive was sold for tourism development in Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture after it was scrapped, but Ryugasaki City, which recognized the value of the locomotive, bought it back before shipping.