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Nezame no toko

January 01, 1970

Nezame no toko (寝覚の床), meaning "Bed of Awakening"[1] is a scenic spot in Japan, located in Agematsu, Kiso District, Nagano Prefecture. It is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty.

Nezame no toko
Nezame no toko
Location of Nezame no toko
Nezame no toko (Japan)
LocationAgematsu, Nagano, Japan
Coordinates35°46′21.53″N 137°41′58.02″E / 35.7726472°N 137.6994500°E / 35.7726472; 137.6994500
EstablishedApril 23, 1941

Overview edit

One onomatological explanation is that it was named "Bed of Awakening" because the stunning view stimulated even drowsy onlookers such that they would become wide awake.[1][2] There are naturally occurring eroded granite rock formations here, and some of these are claimed to resemble the shapes of lions, lotus flower, etc.[1][3]

Folk tradition claims that the name derives from Urashima Tarō experiencing an "awakening" here, that is, the sensation that everything in his life up to then was as if in a dream.[4][a]

It was selected as one of nationally designated places of scenic beauty in Nagano.[5][better source needed]

There used to be rapid currents that created the formation, but the water level has lowered due to such factors as the Kiso Dam upstream that came into operation in 1968 [citation needed], exposing more of the granite formation which used to be underwater.[6]

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    Kiso River and Nezame no toko
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    Nezame no toko and Chūō Main Line railway

History edit

There have been waka poetry composed on the Kiso scenery while traveling the Nakasendō that employed "nezame" as keyword (utamakura).[7]

Rinsenji edit

The Rinsen-ji [ja] in Agematsu stands on a cliff overlooking the strange rock formations of Nezame no toko.[8] According to the engi (story of origin) of this temple, which stands nearby overlooking the scenery, Rinsenji originally enshrined the Benten statue which local legend said Urashima had left behind.[b][9]

The temple totally burnt down in 1864, except for the Benten-dō, and rebuilt the following year. A new main hall, restored to its original appearance was erected in 1971.[3][10] The surviving Benten-dō structure was completed 1712 under the auspices of Tokugawa Yoshimichi, fourth daimyō of the Owari Domain.[11]

There is also the Urashima-dō, which is a distinctly separate structure.[12] It has stood on top of the tokoiwa ("Bed Rock").[13][14]

The temple's treasure hall houses a fishing pole, alleged to have belonged to Urashima.[14]

Mikaeri no okina edit

According to folk tradition, there resided in the hamlet of Nezame an old man named Mikaeri no okina (三返りの翁) who provided wonder-medicine to the folk.

The noh play Nezame (『寝覚』) from the late Muromachi Period[c] is based on this tradition.[15][16]

In the Noh play, the Emperor of Japan during the Engi Era hears of the elixir of longevity, and sends a messenger from court to investigate. The old man reveals himself to be an avatar of the Yakushi Nyorai, calling himself "Medicine-master" (Iwō-butsu, 医王仏), and presents the medicine. It is explained that he has lived at Nezame no toko for a thousand years, and has rejuvenated himself three times with the medicine, earning the name Mikaeri meaning "thrice reverted".[16][15]

Urashima Tarō legend edit

 
Urashima Tarō and turtle at Fukushima-juku station on the Kiso-kaidō path.[d]
―Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Fukushima-juku, 69 stations of the Kiso-kaidō).

Although this is in the mountainous terrain of Kiso and far from any ocean, there has arisen a local tradition associating the spot with Urashima Tarō, the man who went to the Dragon Palace beyond the sea.

One of the oldest known records indicating local association of this scenic spot with Urashima Tarō is the mention of the so-called Urashima-ga-tsuri-ishi ("Urashima's fishing stone") by Zen priest Takuan in his travelogue Kisoji kikō ki.[18]

Kaibara Ekken also says in his Kisoji no ki (1685) that he witnessed the "Nezame no toko where Urashima fished," but he is skeptical about Urashima ever visiting this area.[18]

According to the Nezame Urashima-dera ryaku-engi (寝覚浦嶋寺略縁起) or story of the founding of Rinsen-ji,[b] Urashima Tarō had returned from the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) with three gifts: the "jeweled hand box" (tamatebako), a Benzaiten statue, and a book of knowledge entitled the Manpōshinsho (万宝神書). After traveling various parts of Japan, he settled in a beautiful village by Kiso River. He lived here many years fishing for leisure, while peddling the medicine he had learned to conjure using the esoteric book. One day while storytelling to the villagers about the Dragon Palace, he opened his box, and turned into a 300-year-old man. On the 1st year of Tenkei (938) he disappeared from the face of the earth.[19][20]

The Ryaku-engi has gone through many reprints, with the oldest surviving being the revised print of 1756,[21][e] However, the gist of the legend is thought to have been established earlier, from the near-modern period.[19]

From some point in local tradition,[f] The Mikaeri no okina and Urashima Tarō came to be seen as the same personage.[22] The Ryaku-engii also states that Urashima earned the moniker 見かへりの翁 (Mikaeri no okina, "Old man of compensation") for being the provender of the magical drug to the villagers.[23]。

An old, pre-Takemoto jōruri called Urashima Tarō was written with this Agematsu area as its setting.[24]

Basil Hall Chamberlain also described the monument off the route of the Nakasendō highway, near Suhara-juku station, and mentioned its association with Urashima, the Japanese Rip van Winkle.[25]

See also edit

Explanatory notes edit

  1. ^ Walter Weston wrote that Urashima, the Rip van Winkle of Japan had woken up from a long slumber,[2] but Urashima did not enter such a long sleep as van Winkle did.
  2. ^ a b Although the work is entitled Nezame Urashima-dera ryaku-engi which seems to be about a temple of a different name, the text explicitly declares the place was named "Nezame-yama Rinsen-ji",
  3. ^ There are records of this being performed in1595 and 1596, etc.[15]
  4. ^ It is actually six-miles south of Fukushima that Agematsu, the nearest station to Nezame no toko is located.[2] But the artist is nevertheless alluding to Nezame no toko.[17]
  5. ^ At the point of Torii's paper, she thought the 1848 edition to be the oldest.[19]
  6. ^ According to Torii, by the Genroku era (1688–1704).

References edit

Citations edit

  1. ^ a b c The Ministry of Railways (1933), An official guide to eastern Asia (revised ed.), p. 126
  2. ^ a b c Weston (1896), pp. 44–45.
  3. ^ a b Wilson (2015), p. 137.
  4. ^ Hama, Mitsuo (はまみつを), ed. (2006), Shinshū no minwa denshō shūsei - Chūshin hen 信州の民話伝説集成 中信編 [Shinano Province folktale tradition collection - Central Shinano], Issosha, p. 398
  5. ^ MLIT国土交通省河川局 (2007), Kisogawa suikei no ryūiki oyobi kasen no gaiyō (an) 木曽川水系の流域及び河川の概要（案） (PDF), p. (2) - 24 (17MB file)
  6. ^ Hiroshima University Institute of Geology (2015). "Ichi nichi me: Nezame no toko (Nagano-ken) kengaku" １日目 寝覚の床（長野県）見学 [day 1, Nezame no toko (Nagano) sighting trip]. 巡検ガイド (Spotchecking guide). Retrieved 2017-09-29.
  7. ^ Kiso River Lower Stream Office, MLIT Chubu Regional Bureau (2007), "Kimama ni journey Nagano-ken Agematsu-machi" 気ままにjourney 長野県上松町 (PDF), Kisso, 62, retrieved 2017-09-30
  8. ^ Wilson (2015), p. 136.
  9. ^ Torii (1992), pp. 37–38
  10. ^ Kiso Kyōikukai & Kyōdokan (1981), p. 230.
  11. ^ Hayashi (2009), p. 110, timeline.
  12. ^ Sawa (1981), p. 38.
  13. ^ Masaoka, Shiki (1902), Dassai shooku haiwa 獺祭書屋俳話 [edition=3rd expanded], Kobunkan, pp. 173–174
  14. ^ a b Rurubu (2016), Rurubu Kiso Ina Enakyō Takao るるぶ木曽伊那恵那峡高, Jtbパブリッシング, p. 41, ISBN 9784533090264, 浦島堂へは大きな床岩を登る (To [reach] Urashima-dō you climb the large Toko-iwa ("Bed Rock"). (in Japanese)
  15. ^ a b c Torii (1992), p. 39-40.
  16. ^ a b Anesaki, Masaharu (1942), "Shinto Ideas as seen in the Noh Plays", Proceedings of the Imperial Academy, 18 (7): 329–, doi:10.2183/pjab1912.18.327 (in Japanese)
  17. ^ Hayashi, Kouhei (2009), [Mirages and the Urashima Legend] (PDF), 苫小牧駒澤大学紀要, 20: 25, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-27, 国芳..「福島」は..木曽の山の中で浦島太郎が描かれる所以は、寝覚床があるからである ([Regarding] Kuniyoshi['s].. "Fukushima".. the reason Urashima Tarō is depicted in Kiso's mountainous terrain is due to Nezame-no-toko) (in Japanese) alt copy @NDL
  18. ^ a b Torii (1992), pp. 36–37.
  19. ^ a b c Torii (1992), pp. 37–38.
  20. ^ Wilson (2015), pp. 139–141.
  21. ^ Hayashi (1999), p. 89.
  22. ^ Torii (1992), p. 40.
  23. ^ Torii (1992), pp. 37–38, 40.
  24. ^ Torii (1992), pp. 31–35.
  25. ^ Chamberlain, Basil Hall; Mason, W. B. (1898), "Suwara", A Handbook for Travellers in Japan, C. Scribner's Sons, p. 250

Bibliography edit

  • Hayashi, Kouhei (林晃平) (1999), "Urashimadera Ryakuengi no henbō wo meguri" 浦島寺略縁起の変貌をめぐり [Three Texts of Urashimadera-Ryakuengi conserved in the Former Kampukuji] (PDF), Bulletin of Tomakomai Komazawa University, 1: 89–102 (in Japanese)
  • Kiso Kyōikukai; Kyōdokan (1981), Kiso, p. 230 (in Japanese)
  • Sawa, Fumio (沢史生) (1981), Kiso rekishi sanpo 木曽歴史散歩, Kiso Kyōikukai, ISBN 9784783910756 (in Japanese)
  • Torii, Fumiko (島居フミ子) (1992), "Kiso ni yomigaetta Urashima Tarō" 木曾に蘇った浦島太郎 [Urashima Tarō revived in Kiso] (PDF), Nihon Bungaku, Japan Women's University: 32–43 (in Japanese)
  • Weston, Walter (1896), Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps, J. Murray, pp. 44–45
  • Wilson, William Scott (2015), Walking the Kiso Road: A Modern-Day Exploration of Old Japan, Shambhala Publications, pp. 135–141, ISBN 9780834803176

External links edit

  •   Media related to Nezame no Toko at Wikimedia Commons

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nezame, toko, 寝覚の床, meaning, awakening, scenic, spot, japan, located, agematsu, kiso, district, nagano, prefecture, nationally, designated, place, scenic, beauty, iucn, category, natural, monument, feature, location, show, nagano, prefecture, japan, show, japa. Nezame no toko 寝覚の床 meaning Bed of Awakening 1 is a scenic spot in Japan located in Agematsu Kiso District Nagano Prefecture It is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty Nezame no tokoIUCN category III natural monument or feature Nezame no tokoLocation of Nezame no tokoShow map of Nagano PrefectureNezame no toko Japan Show map of JapanLocationAgematsu Nagano JapanCoordinates35 46 21 53 N 137 41 58 02 E 35 7726472 N 137 6994500 E 35 7726472 137 6994500EstablishedApril 23 1941 Contents 1 Overview 2 History 2 1 Rinsenji 3 Mikaeri no okina 4 Urashima Tarō legend 5 See also 6 Explanatory notes 7 References 7 1 Citations 7 2 Bibliography 8 External linksOverview editOne onomatological explanation is that it was named Bed of Awakening because the stunning view stimulated even drowsy onlookers such that they would become wide awake 1 2 There are naturally occurring eroded granite rock formations here and some of these are claimed to resemble the shapes of lions lotus flower etc 1 3 Folk tradition claims that the name derives from Urashima Tarō experiencing an awakening here that is the sensation that everything in his life up to then was as if in a dream 4 a It was selected as one of nationally designated places of scenic beauty in Nagano 5 better source needed There used to be rapid currents that created the formation but the water level has lowered due to such factors as the Kiso Dam upstream that came into operation in 1968 citation needed exposing more of the granite formation which used to be underwater 6 nbsp Kiso River and Nezame no toko nbsp Nezame no toko and Chuō Main Line railwayHistory editThere have been waka poetry composed on the Kiso scenery while traveling the Nakasendō that employed nezame as keyword utamakura 7 Rinsenji edit The Rinsen ji ja in Agematsu stands on a cliff overlooking the strange rock formations of Nezame no toko 8 According to the engi story of origin of this temple which stands nearby overlooking the scenery Rinsenji originally enshrined the Benten statue which local legend said Urashima had left behind b 9 The temple totally burnt down in 1864 except for the Benten dō and rebuilt the following year A new main hall restored to its original appearance was erected in 1971 3 10 The surviving Benten dō structure was completed 1712 under the auspices of Tokugawa Yoshimichi fourth daimyō of the Owari Domain 11 There is also the Urashima dō which is a distinctly separate structure 12 It has stood on top of the tokoiwa Bed Rock 13 14 The temple s treasure hall houses a fishing pole alleged to have belonged to Urashima 14 Mikaeri no okina editAccording to folk tradition there resided in the hamlet of Nezame an old man named Mikaeri no okina 三返りの翁 who provided wonder medicine to the folk The noh play Nezame 寝覚 from the late Muromachi Period c is based on this tradition 15 16 In the Noh play the Emperor of Japan during the Engi Era hears of the elixir of longevity and sends a messenger from court to investigate The old man reveals himself to be an avatar of the Yakushi Nyorai calling himself Medicine master Iwō butsu 医王仏 and presents the medicine It is explained that he has lived at Nezame no toko for a thousand years and has rejuvenated himself three times with the medicine earning the name Mikaeri meaning thrice reverted 16 15 Urashima Tarō legend edit nbsp Urashima Tarō and turtle at Fukushima juku station on the Kiso kaidō path d Utagawa Kuniyoshi Fukushima juku 69 stations of the Kiso kaidō Although this is in the mountainous terrain of Kiso and far from any ocean there has arisen a local tradition associating the spot with Urashima Tarō the man who went to the Dragon Palace beyond the sea One of the oldest known records indicating local association of this scenic spot with Urashima Tarō is the mention of the so called Urashima ga tsuri ishi Urashima s fishing stone by Zen priest Takuan in his travelogue Kisoji kikō ki 18 Kaibara Ekken also says in his Kisoji no ki 1685 that he witnessed the Nezame no toko where Urashima fished but he is skeptical about Urashima ever visiting this area 18 According to the Nezame Urashima dera ryaku engi 寝覚浦嶋寺略縁起 or story of the founding of Rinsen ji b Urashima Tarō had returned from the Dragon Palace Ryugu jō with three gifts the jeweled hand box tamatebako a Benzaiten statue and a book of knowledge entitled the Manpōshinsho 万宝神書 After traveling various parts of Japan he settled in a beautiful village by Kiso River He lived here many years fishing for leisure while peddling the medicine he had learned to conjure using the esoteric book One day while storytelling to the villagers about the Dragon Palace he opened his box and turned into a 300 year old man On the 1st year of Tenkei 938 he disappeared from the face of the earth 19 20 The Ryaku engi has gone through many reprints with the oldest surviving being the revised print of 1756 21 e However the gist of the legend is thought to have been established earlier from the near modern period 19 From some point in local tradition f The Mikaeri no okina and Urashima Tarō came to be seen as the same personage 22 The Ryaku engii also states that Urashima earned the moniker 見かへりの翁 Mikaeri no okina Old man of compensation for being the provender of the magical drug to the villagers 23 An old pre Takemoto jōruri called Urashima Tarō was written with this Agematsu area as its setting 24 Basil Hall Chamberlain also described the monument off the route of the Nakasendō highway near Suhara juku station and mentioned its association with Urashima the Japanese Rip van Winkle 25 See also editList of Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan Nagano Explanatory notes edit Walter Weston wrote that Urashima the Rip van Winkle of Japan had woken up from a long slumber 2 but Urashima did not enter such a long sleep as van Winkle did a b Although the work is entitled Nezame Urashima dera ryaku engi which seems to be about a temple of a different name the text explicitly declares the place was named Nezame yama Rinsen ji There are records of this being performed in1595 and 1596 etc 15 It is actually six miles south of Fukushima that Agematsu the nearest station to Nezame no toko is located 2 But the artist is nevertheless alluding to Nezame no toko 17 At the point of Torii s paper she thought the 1848 edition to be the oldest 19 According to Torii by the Genroku era 1688 1704 References editCitations edit a b c The Ministry of Railways 1933 An official guide to eastern Asia revised ed p 126 a b c Weston 1896 pp 44 45 a b Wilson 2015 p 137 Hama Mitsuo はまみつを ed 2006 Shinshu no minwa denshō shusei Chushin hen 信州の民話伝説集成 中信編 Shinano Province folktale tradition collection Central Shinano Issosha p 398 MLIT国土交通省河川局 2007 Kisogawa suikei no ryuiki oyobi kasen no gaiyō an 木曽川水系の流域及び河川の概要 案 PDF p 2 24 17MB file Hiroshima University Institute of Geology 2015 Ichi nichi me Nezame no toko Nagano ken kengaku １日目 寝覚の床 長野県 見学 day 1 Nezame no toko Nagano sighting trip 巡検ガイド Spotchecking guide Retrieved 2017 09 29 Kiso River Lower Stream Office MLIT Chubu Regional Bureau 2007 Kimama ni journey Nagano ken Agematsu machi 気ままにjourney 長野県上松町 PDF Kisso 62 retrieved 2017 09 30 Wilson 2015 p 136 Torii 1992 pp 37 38 Kiso Kyōikukai amp Kyōdokan 1981 p 230 Hayashi 2009 p 110 timeline Sawa 1981 p 38 Masaoka Shiki 1902 Dassai shooku haiwa 獺祭書屋俳話 edition 3rd expanded Kobunkan pp 173 174 a b Rurubu 2016 Rurubu Kiso Ina Enakyō Takao るるぶ木曽伊那恵那峡高 Jtbパブリッシング p 41 ISBN 9784533090264 浦島堂へは大きな床岩を登る To reach Urashima dō you climb the large Toko iwa Bed Rock in Japanese a b c Torii 1992 p 39 40 a b Anesaki Masaharu 1942 Shinto Ideas as seen in the Noh Plays Proceedings of the Imperial Academy 18 7 329 doi 10 2183 pjab1912 18 327 in Japanese Hayashi Kouhei 2009 Shinkirō to Urashima Taro kaijō no imeji to sono shuhen 蜃気楼と浦島太郎 海上の龍宮のイメージとその周辺 覚書 Mirages and the Urashima Legend PDF 苫小牧駒澤大学紀要 20 25 archived from the original PDF on 2010 12 27 国芳 福島 は 木曽の山の中で浦島太郎が描かれる所以は 寝覚床があるからである Regarding Kuniyoshi s Fukushima the reason Urashima Tarō is depicted in Kiso s mountainous terrain is due to Nezame no toko in Japanese alt copy NDL a b Torii 1992 pp 36 37 a b c Torii 1992 pp 37 38 Wilson 2015 pp 139 141 Hayashi 1999 p 89 Torii 1992 p 40 Torii 1992 pp 37 38 40 Torii 1992 pp 31 35 Chamberlain Basil Hall Mason W B 1898 Suwara A Handbook for Travellers in Japan C Scribner s Sons p 250 Bibliography edit Hayashi Kouhei 林晃平 1999 Urashimadera Ryakuengi no henbō wo meguri 浦島寺略縁起の変貌をめぐり Three Texts of Urashimadera Ryakuengi conserved in the Former Kampukuji PDF Bulletin of Tomakomai Komazawa University 1 89 102 in Japanese Kiso Kyōikukai Kyōdokan 1981 Kiso p 230 in Japanese Sawa Fumio 沢史生 1981 Kiso rekishi sanpo 木曽歴史散歩 Kiso Kyōikukai ISBN 9784783910756 in Japanese Torii Fumiko 島居フミ子 1992 Kiso ni yomigaetta Urashima Tarō 木曾に蘇った浦島太郎 Urashima Tarō revived in Kiso PDF Nihon Bungaku Japan Women s University 32 43 in Japanese Weston Walter 1896 Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps J Murray pp 44 45 Wilson William Scott 2015 Walking the Kiso Road A Modern Day Exploration of Old Japan Shambhala Publications pp 135 141 ISBN 9780834803176External links edit nbsp Media related to Nezame no Toko at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Nezame no toko amp oldid 1192715705, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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