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Takuri-go（タクリー号）

This painting depicts a replica of the ‘Takuri-go’ -Japan’s first domestically produced gasoline-powered automobile, manufactured in 1907.

It is in Yabo Tenmangu. now.

In 1908, a drive led by Prince Arisugawa Takehito at the wheel of this Takuri-go was held from Hibiya Park to Yabo Tenmangu Shrine. The party’s safe return to Tokyo became the origin of praying for traffic safety.

In honor of this event, Yabo Tenmangu holds the ‘Classic Car Festival’ every December, bringing classic cars from all over Japan together to parade through the shrine grounds and the local neighborhood.

名称谷保天満宮
所在地〒186-0011 東京都国立市谷保５２０９
Homepagehttps://www.yabotenmangu.or.jp/
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Sugawara no Michizane(菅原道真)

Sugawara no Michizane was so intelligent that the Emperor highly recognized his talents and promoted him to a high position in the court. However, this led to tragedy: his rivals framed him with false accusations, resulting in his exile to Kyushu, far from Kyoto, where he later passed away.

After his death, his spirit was said to have ascended into the sky and become a vengeful god of thunder, striking his rivals’ homes with fierce thunderstorms. Terrified by these disasters, the people built this shrine to appease his spirit and worship him as the deity of thunder　in the year of 947.

In fact, the name “Tenjin” originally means “the God of Thunder”!

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Ishida Sanyaku（石田散薬）

Ishida-Sanyaku, a renowned remedy for bruises and muscle aches, was created by Toshizo Hijikata’s family around 300 years ago. Back then, Ishida was a district of Yaho Village, and a young Toshizo would walk around the Yaho area selling this medicine, carrying a wooden basket on his shoulder.

名称土方歳三資料館
所在地〒191-0021 東京都日野市石田２丁目１−３
Homepagehttps://www.hijikata-toshizo.jp/
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guard(衛)

This kanji has two parts: the ‘go’ radical is divided, and inside it is a symbol for walking around a perimeter. That is why this kanji means ‘to guard’ or ‘to protect’ by patrolling the area.

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through(通)

This kanji consists of the radical for ‘road’ on the left, and a symbol representing ‘something passing through a tube’ on the right. Therefore, it means ‘to pass through,’ and by extension, ‘street’ or ‘path.

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