Uchinami Sakaura

...The name Namisaka is said to have originated from the fact that at high tide, the seawater holds back the river water, causing the waves to flow backwards. In the fourteenth volume of the Manyoshu, there is a poem that goes, "If the pearl of the sea of ​​Namisaka in Hitachi is drawn, it will disappear." In contrast to Sotonamisakaura, Uchinamisakaura was turned into rice paddy fields by lake reclamation in 1950, and in 1970 it became the subject of housing development, and Itako New Town was built. [Nakagawa Koichi]...

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…満潮時に海水が河水を押さえ，波浪が逆流したのが浪逆の名の由来といわれ，《万葉集》巻十四に〈常陸なる浪逆の海の玉藻こそ引けば絶えすれあどか絶えせむ〉の歌がある。外浪逆浦に対する内浪逆浦は1950年湖面干拓により水田化され，70年には宅地開発の対象となり潮来ニュータウンが造成された。【中川 浩一】。…

※「内浪逆浦」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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