青森県歴史街道の図

When I was looking at the “Aomori Prefectural Historical Road Map”, I thought Shoda Yoshida was a person with an extraordinary ability to act. What was it that moved him to that point? This “Aomori Prefectural Historical Road Map” is an illustration of Aomori Prefecture's historic sites and cultural assets. The center of the figure is a 140-day trip to Tohoku, where Hideyasu Yoshida, a 22-year-old crownman, was named It is drawn around his footsteps in Aomori in the “Tohoku Yu diary”. He is an educator who brought up many disciples who were active in the Meiji Restoration, such as Takasugi Sakusaku, as a samurai at the end of the Edo period. The era is the end of the Edo period. On June 3, 1853, four warships led by Admiral Perry from the United States suddenly appeared off Uraga (off Yokosuka) in Kanagawa. People saw the black hull and the black smoke rising from the chimney, calling it the “black ship”, and the country became a fuss. About a year and a half before this “black ship visit” occurred. Shoin Yoshida, who knew that Russian ships would appear in the northern sea, acted immediately on December 14, 1851 to confirm the state of Japan's defense against it, without official permission from Choshu-an I went to Tohoku in the harsh winter and was prepared to get rid of it. About one and a half months after leaving Edo, on February 29, 1852, Shoin entered Hirosaki after taking a bath at Otsuchi Onsen. And if you follow the footsteps after this, it will be as follows. After hearing in detail about the coastal defenses in Hirosaki, we passed Fujisaki, Itayanagi and Tsuruta, then crossed Iwaki River from Goshogawara and Akahori, then Sugawara and Tomino, Nakazato (Nakadomado) located in the center of the Tsugaru Peninsula (Part of town). Then, from Nakazato, passing through the 13th lake shore, crossing the ridge further, walking north in the deep snow, going from Minatoya to the northernmost part of the Tsugaru peninsula, now tracing another coastline, Togahama Town It is said that he entered Aomori by boat from Hiraiso. It's like this when you follow the footsteps from Hirosaki to Aomori, but it's a shrine that goes all the way through the coldest winter. I think it was tough. After this, Shoin advances from Aomori to Oshu Highway. After passing through Hirauchi and passing through Shichinohe, Gonohe, Sannohe, Morioka and the southern territory, we will return to Choshu Mansion in Edo on April 10 with a refreshing spring breeze. On this trip, Shoin talked about the future of the country with many northern scholars, and studied soldiers under the Sakuma Elephant Mountain by visiting nine turrets such as Kodomari and Ryuhi, as well as visiting the three bases and the Hiraiso guards. It is said that it has deepened the objective viewpoint. The footsteps of Shoin in this “Aomori Prefecture Historical Road Map” are a testament to his ability to move through the extremely cold regions. And I think that the strong sense of mission of Shoin, who was also a thinker who insisted on the defeat of the Shogunate (destroying the foreign country), made him travel like this. Afterwards, unfortunately, Shoin disappeared from the prison at the age of 30 due to “Ansei's Great Prison”. If he continued to play an active role, I strongly believe that he was surely the cornerstone of a new era, along with Takamori Saigo, who played a leading role in Japan during the Meiji Restoration. Edo was renamed Tokyo, and the year became Meiji, only nine years after his death.