Yoshida [village] - Yoshida

Japanese: 吉田[村] - よしだ

A village in Iishi County, southeastern Shimane Prefecture. Population 2,668 (1995). A mountain village in the Chugoku Mountains, with the Fukano River, a tributary of the Hii River, and the Yoshida River, a tributary of the Mitoya River, flowing north. It borders Hiroshima Prefecture to the south, with Mt. Oyorogi (1,218m) on the prefectural border. Yoshida, the central settlement in the middle reaches of the Yoshida River, developed together with the Tanabe family, who operated a tatara ironworks since the Middle Ages, and in the early modern period, the Tanabe family was granted various privileges under the protection of the Matsue Domain. The business closed in 1923 due to pressure from Western iron, but facilities such as the former hut, rice storehouse, charcoal hut, and tenement house have been preserved, centering on the Takadono (a nationally designated important tangible folk material) with a tatara furnace inside.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

島根県南東部，飯石（いいし）郡の村。人口2668(1995)。中国山地にある山村で，斐伊（ひい）川の支流深野川，三刀屋（みとや）川の支流吉田川が北流する。南は広島県に接し，県境に大万木（おおよろぎ）山(1218m)がある。吉田川中流にある中心集落の吉田は，中世以降たたら製鉄を経営した田部（たなべ）家とともに発展し，田部家は近世には松江藩の保護を受けて諸特権を付与されていた。洋鉄に押されて1923年に廃業したが，たたら炉を内部にもつ高殿(国の重要有形民俗資料)を中心に元小屋，米倉，炭小屋，長屋などの施設が保存されている。

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