Joko-in

OUT OF THE WAY - BUT IMPORtANT HISTORY

This has some modern (relative) history associated some graves of the Boshin Warriors are buried here.

Buddha Temple in calm atmosphere

Original Text

It is a Buddha Temple near the Tochigiuchi River on the east side of Kakunodate Station. There is a graveyard for the dead of the Battle of Kakunodate of Bosin War (but limited to the government army). The precincts were surrounded by calm atmosphere and I was able to worship calmly.

The family temple of Yoshinobu Satake, the founder of the Satake Kita family

Original Text

It is located in Nishikatsurakucho / Shimonakacho, the farthest from the temporary parking lot along Route 341, which we started sightseeing, and is near the tatetsu house and Yakushido, but the road is complicated, so it is a little. I had a hard time finding it It was. Kakunodate has many residences of the Satake clan, and it is designated as a historic site designated by Senboku City (former Kakunodate Town) in Showa ５２ because it is valuable as a remains of the main hall architecture of the temple in the mid Edo period. In the precincts, there was a cemetery of the war dead who died in the boshin war, and there was a monument of the boy drummer, but the same as Yakushido ...

Family temple of the Satake Kita family

Original Text

It is located south of Samurai Residence Street, near Hoshinji Temple and Yakushido. Jokoin is said to be the family temple of the Satake Kita family of the Satake family, but I can't find any such graves. I thought I would enter the main hall, but I gave up because it was locked. The precincts are not very clean, but the quiet atmosphere was good.

The grave of the boshin warrior

Original Text

The graves of Boshin warriors who participated in the war from afar, such as the Hirado domain, the Omura domain, and the Ogura domain are lined up. It seems that it is also the family temple of the Satake family, but it seems that it is not open to the public.