Anotsu - Anotsu

The old name of Ise no Tsu (Tsu City, Mie Prefecture) or Tsu Port. It is such a famous port that the Chinese listed it as one of the three great ports of Japan, along with Bonotsu in Satsuma and Hakatatsu in Chikuzen. Since ancient times, it has been a shipping port for rice offerings to Ise Shrine, and a port of call for ships transporting offerings to the shrine from the north. During the Heian period, Taira Korehira became the governor of Ise, and his son Sadahira settled here, and the Taira clan expanded their influence by using it as their base along with the important ports of Kuwana and Shiroko. It also prospered as a commercial port during the Kamakura period. During the Muromachi period, when Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi and Yoshinori stayed here on their way to the shrine, the area was already home to 4,000 to 5,000 houses. In 1498 (Meio 7), a major earthquake occurred and the area collapsed, losing its life as a port. In 1522 (Taiei 2), the renga poet Socho, who passed by here on his way back from the shrine, described its decline in his Socho Notebook.

[Yoshio Harada]

"The History of Tsu City, 5 volumes, by Umehara Michi and Nishida Shigetsugu (1959-1969, Tsu City)" ▽ "The Local History Series 7, by Harada Toshimaru, Sugimoto Kahachi, et al. (1969, Hobunkan Publishing)"

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

伊勢(いせ)の津(つ)（三重県津市）または津港の古称。明人(みんじん)が薩摩(さつま)の坊津(ぼうのつ)、筑前(ちくぜん)の博多(はかた)津とともに日本三津(さんしん)の一つにあげたほどの有名な港。古来、ここは伊勢神宮への供米を送る積出し港であり、北からの神宮への供祭物輸送船の寄港地。平安時代、平維衡(これひら)が伊勢守(かみ)となり、その子貞衡(さだひら)がここに土着し、平氏一族は桑名(くわな)、白子(しろこ)の要港とともに根拠地とし勢力を広げた。鎌倉時代も商港として繁栄。室町時代、将軍足利義持(あしかがよしもち)・義教(よしのり)が参宮の途次宿泊したとき、すでに4000～5000軒の町並みがあったという。1498年（明応7）大地震があり、ここは陥没し、港としての生命を失う。1522年（大永2）参宮の帰途ここを通った連歌師宗長(そうちょう)はその衰退ぶりを『宗長手記』に述べている。

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『梅原三千・西田重嗣著『津市史』全5巻（1959～1969・津市）』▽『原田敏丸・杉本嘉八他著『郷土史大系7』（1969・宝文館出版）』

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