田島陣屋跡

It is in a corner of the parking lot of Minamiaizu Town Hall.

Jinya is the building where the clan office (government office) was located in the Edo period. Tajima Jinya is a Jinya of the Aizu clan. Write the story of Tajima Jinya in the Boshin War together with the nearby Jionji Temple. I visited here on September 8th. About 150 years ago, on September 9, 1897, an incident occurred here at Tajima Jinya. In August of the same year, soldiers from Aizu-gun in the old curtain withdrew from Tajima in preparation for the decisive battle at Tsuruga Castle, but instead the new government forces entered Tajima from Nikkoguchi and occupied Tajima Jinya. Most of the new government troops left Tajima the next day, aiming for the castle, but about 100 new government troops remained in the Tajima Jinya and plundered. After 10 days of patience, the farmers of Tajima broke up and surrounded the Tajima Jinya with about a thousand farmers. They didn't have powerful weapons either, but they were desperate to protect their children and their families. Then, in the early morning of September 9, farmers fought against the new government soldiers, signaled by the sounds of temple bells and guns. There is a "grave of 19 soldiers in the government army" at Jionji Temple, which is why many soldiers died from September 9th to 10th. I want to regret the soldiers who participated in the war from Hiroshima, Utsunomiya and Otawara in the distance, and also join hands with the deaths of the soldiers of the former Shogunate army and the farmers of Ichii who would have died more than this. Hopefully, when I visited the history at the Commerce and Tourism Division of the Minamiaizu Town Hall and got a map, I hope that even one person will remember and tell me the history of the Jinya site on the same site. I learned this fact when I returned home from a short trip to Minamiaizu and organized photos and documents.