Fushiki

Japanese: 伏木 - ふしき

A district on the left bank of the Oyabe River estuary in Takaoka City, northwest of Toyama Prefecture. It was the first area to be developed in the prefecture, and was the site of the provincial capital, Kokubunji Temple, and Ichinomiya Shrine. Otomo no Yakamochi once stayed here as the governor of Etchu Province. Since the Edo period, it has developed as a port town, backed by shipping on the Oyabe River. After being designated an open port in 1899, it became one of the three ports on the Japan Coast, along with Niigata and Tsuruga. Modern industry began to develop here around the time of World War I, and chemical, steel, and paper and pulp factories were established behind the area. The port is mainly used by ships importing lumber, petroleum products, agricultural products, chemical fertilizers, and ores. It is one of the centers of the Toyama-Takaoka industrial region. It is famous for the Manyo Botanical Garden at the foot of Mt. Nijo and Shokoji Temple, a famous Shinshu temple. The coast is called Nago-no-ura, and Otomo no Yakamochi wrote about it in many of his poems.

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Japanese:

富山県北西部，高岡市の小矢部川河口左岸の地区。県内で最も早く開けたところで，国府，国分寺，一宮などがおかれ，大伴家持が越中国守として滞在したことがある。江戸時代から小矢部川の舟運を背景に港町として発展。 1899年開港場に指定されてから新潟，敦賀とともに日本海岸三港の1つとなった。第1次世界大戦頃から近代工業が進出し，背後に化学，鉄鋼，紙パルプ工場が立地。港はおもに木材，石油製品，農産物，化学肥料，鉱石などの輸入船の出入りが多い。富山高岡工業地域の一中心。二上山麓の万葉植物園，真宗の名刹勝興寺が有名。沿海は奈呉ノ浦と呼ばれ，大伴家持が多数の歌に詠んでいる。

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