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Modern SitesSite Name: Aneyoshi tsunami warning stone tablet Alternative Name: 姉吉Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 2.722 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Miyako (Iwate pref.) Nearest Village: Omoe 重茂
Latitude: 39.534220N Longitude: 142.045170E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The tsunami on 11 March 2011 went upstream 500m from the seashore, destroyed the fishing port and the camping site on the Aneyoshi bay, reached up to 150m point (39.53338N,142.04460E,40m alt) to this tablet (55m alt), now another stone post standing at the reaching point. All the people in Aneyoshi hamlet who followed the order on the tablet survived the catastrophe.
The sentence on the tablet is as follows :
The homes on higher places will guarantee the comforts of the descendants,
Remind the horror of the tsunamis, do not build homes below this point.
We suffered tsunamis in 1896 and also in 1933, only 2 villagers in the former disaster and 4 in the latter survived.
Keep on your guard even years pass by.
317 stone tablets were built after the 2 tsunamis, 125 (40%) of them were washed away or destroyed by the 2011 tsunami. The sentences on the tablets, except the requiem poetry, the lists of the victims and the detailed records of the disaster (sometimes written in Chinese, which was regarded as the formal form like Latin in the western culture), are classified into 5 patterns:
A. (9 examples including variations)
Earthquake, Sea roaring, then Tsunami.
B. (19 examples including variations and abridged versions)
Tsunami will follow the earthquake.
Gather here (or, Rush away to higher places) after the earthquake (or, after the sudden ebb).
When tsunami comes, rush to anywhere as high as here.
Never try to run further, tsunami will catch up soon.
Keep the nearest higher points in mind.
Do not build houses on lower places than the designated area by the authorities.
C. (68 examples including variations)
Earthquake is the omen of the subsequent tsunami.
Watch out for it at least 1 hour.
When it comes, rush away to higher places.
Never reside on the submerged areas again.
D. (4 examples including variations)
Always watch out for a sudden tsunami.
Evolve a tsunami when the sea roars after the earthquake.
Ring the warning bells when the tide ebbed.
Rush away when the tsunami comes.
Never mind about money and goods, only try to survive.
The 5th sentence on the Aneyoshi tablet is one and only, excellent one.
It is better to take the southbound road from Miyako city center to Aneyoshi hamlet, the northbound road from Yamada town (山田町) is so narrow and too much winding to let the car from other direction go past.
The map and inventory of tsunami stone tablets.
Legend of the inventory:
番号=number
所在地=address
碑名=title
碑文=sentence
表=recto
裏=verso
対象津波=to which tsunami dedicated
明治津波=1896
昭和津波=1933
類型=sentence pattern
教訓型=order
慰霊型=requiem
祈念型=prayer
未確定=undefined
碑文が伝えるもの=contents of the sentence
記録=record
予兆=omen
避難=evacuation
居住=migration
美談=hommage
建立年月日=install date
施主=donor
分類=donor type
建立場所=installed place
沿道=roadside
社寺=temples or shrines
公益=public facilities
他=etc.
浸水線との関係=in or out of the submerged lines
対象津波=dedicated tsunami
3.11津波=2011 tsunami
標高=altitude
大きさ=dimension
高=height
幅=width
厚=thickness
備考=remarks
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