The “Furusato Series” this time is a group of white walled warehouses in Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture.
Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture is a small town with a population of 48,000 in the central part of Tottori Prefecture.
The center of Kurayoshi City is at the foot of Mt. Utubuki where the Tenjin River and the tributary Ogamo River meet.
When you park your car at the parking lot in front of Kurayoshi City Seitoku Elementary School on the side of Utsubuki Park, there is a memorial monument to the 53rd Yokosuna Grand Sumo, Kotosakura.
This elementary school is his alma mater.
Behind it, along the Tamagawa flowing from Mt. Utubuki.
This area has been designated as a National Preservation District for Important Traditional Buildings.
Traditional buildings are historical settlements and townscapes that are highly valued as cultural properties.
Not only are there valuable old buildings, fences, stone bridges, etc., but this townscape has also been nurtured by people living there over a long period of time.
It flourished as the castle town of Utubuki Castle in the Muromachi period and Jinya town in the Edo period.
Many of the white-walled warehouses were built in the Edo and Meiji eras, and you can still see the image of those days.
The stone bridge over Tamagawa and the elegant streetscape with white plaster walls on red tiles are attractive.
The white-walled warehouses and buildings that were once used as sake breweries and soy sauce shops are now used in various forms such as product halls, coffee shops, and galleries.
A place where you can feel the retro charm.
Jiro Taniguchi, a manga artist from Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture, who is particularly popular in Europe.
His masterpiece “To Haruka no Machi” is set in Kurayoshi.
For the first time in the “Furusato series,” we delivered the hometown of Gosho Aoyama of the popular anime “Detective Conan” and Conan Road in HokueiTown, Tottori prefecture.
Hokuei Town is a town adjacent to Kurayoshi City.
The final episode of the “Furusato Series” is the Kitaro Road of Shigeru Mizuki, who is famous for GeGeGe no Kitaro in Sakaiminato City, Tottori Prefecture.
Tottori Prefecture is known throughout Japan as the “Kingdom of Manga.”
Because it is the home of many famous cartoonists.
Please come and visit us.
This concludes the introduction of the Shirakabe earthenware group.
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