Tsuchizaki

Japanese: 土崎 - つちざき

A port town in Akita County, Dewa Province, located at the mouth of the Omono River. An early example of Tsuchizakiminato is the inscription on a temple bell from 1610, now owned by Saizenji Temple in Akita City, which reads "Tsuchizaminato" ("minato" in Japanese), and in ancient times the area was called Minato or Akitaminato. Aitaura, where Abe no Omi, leading his army to defeat the Emishi, put his ships, is believed to be in the area around Tsuchizaki. The minato is located within the territory in Akita County that was granted to the nun Koren by Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1239. The "Kaisen Shikimoku" ("Cargo Ship Code") from the end of the Muromachi period lists Akitaminato as one of the seven ports for shipping in the northern region. Towards the end of the Sengoku period, the Minato Ando clan built a minato castle and developed the area around the castle. In 1602, the Satake clan was transferred to Dewa, and initially lived in Minato Castle, but in 1603 they built a new castle in Kubota (Kubota) and moved there. At this time, they forced influential merchants from Tsuchizaki to relocate. In the early modern period, it flourished as the outer port of Kubota Castle and as a base for shipping along the Omono River. It now belongs to Akita City and is called Akita Port.
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Japanese:

雄物(おもの)川河口に位置する出羽国秋田郡の港町。現在の秋田市西善(さいぜん)寺が所蔵する慶長15年(1610)の梵鐘銘に土崎湊(みなと)とあるのが，土崎湊の表記の早い例で，古くは湊，秋田湊とよばれた。蝦夷を討つため軍を率いてきた阿部臣が船を入れたという齶田(あいた)浦は，土崎周辺地域とされる。1239年，沙弥公蓮が源頼朝から与えられた秋田郡内の所領の中に湊がある。室町末期の《廻船式目》には北国海運の七湊の一つとして秋田湊があげられている。戦国末期には湊安東氏が湊城を築き城下整備を進めた。1602年出羽に移封となった佐竹氏は初め湊城に入ったが，1603年窪田（久保田）に新城を築き移った。このとき土崎から有力商人らを強制移住させている。近世には久保田城下の外港として，また雄物川舟運の拠点として栄えた。現在は秋田市に属し，秋田港とよばれる。
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