History
История Касукабэ
История города Касукабэ
About 7,000 years ago Kasukabe lay under the sea, but the coastline slowly receded to form today's landscape. In the Middle Ages, the Kasukabe clan, led by the lord Kasukabe Shigeyuki, rose to power—this is said to be the origin of the name "Kasukabe."
In the Edo period, Kasukabe flourished as the fourth post town on the Nikko Kaido, written with the characters "粕壁宿." The Furutone River served as an important route to Edo, and as Kasukabe-juku was a collection point for rice and wheat, the highway was very lively. At the Kasukabe City Local History Museum, a reconstructed model lets you see what Kasukabe-juku and the lives of its people were like.
In 1868 (Meiji 1), Kasukabe-juku became part of Omiya Prefecture and then Urawa Prefecture, and in 1871 part of Saitama Prefecture. With the introduction of the municipal system it became Kasukabe Town, Minami-Saitama District, in 1889. In 1899 the Tobu Railway opened along with Kasukabe Station (renamed in 1949), and modernization moved ahead.
After the war, in 1954, under the Municipal Merger Promotion Act, Kasukabe Town merged with the villages of Toyoharu and Takesato (Minami-Saitama District) and Kōmatsu and Toyono (Kita-Katsushika District) to form Kasukabe City. In 2005, during the so-called "Great Heisei Mergers," it merged with Showa Town to become today's Kasukabe City.
История Касукабэ-дзюку
Касукабэ — почтовая станция
A post town was a town designated by the shogunate to provide post station services. In the Edo period, when the only means of transport were palanquins carried by people and horses, porters and horses were kept at regular intervals for traveling samurai and court nobles and for relaying goods.
The end nearer Nikko was the upper part of Kasukabe. Asahi-cho (formerly Teramachi and Yokocho), home to Saishoin Temple of the Shingon sect, stood at the far end, followed along the road by Kamicho, Nakacho, Shinjuku and Sanmaibashi. At the entrance on the Edo side stood Gozu Tenno Shrine (now Yasaka Shrine), dedicated to the town's market deity.
Традиции и культура
Kasukabe's specialties, made with craftsmanship handed down over many years: paulownia boxes, oshie hagoita (decorated battledores), straw hats and paulownia chests
Краеведческий музей
The museum exhibits the history of the Kasukabe area, holds lectures, hands-on workshops and old document courses, and collects, preserves and researches local historical materials.