Inagi Village 130th Anniversary Commemoration Event

This year, when "Heisei" is changing to "Reiwa", Inagi City will also celebrate its 130th anniversary on April 1, 2019 since "Inagi Village" was established in 1889. Ta.
This year, the city held a project to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the establishment of the Inagi village system as an opportunity to look back on the history of Inagi, which has continued since the Meiji era.
The records have been summarized as the ``Report on Business Performance Commemorating the 130th Anniversary of the Inagi Village System.''

The main businesses are as follows.

In order to create a commemorative postcard to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the implementation of the Inagi Village System, we held a public call for designs.
From among the submitted works, we selected a design that would be suitable for commemorating the 130th anniversary of the implementation of the Inagi Village System, and that would promote Inagi City, and created a postcard.
The completed postcards were distributed at events commemorating the 130th anniversary of the implementation of the Inagi village system, starting with the I-no-machiinagi citizen festival.

We held a walking tour "Walking in the footsteps of Zensuke Kubo" to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the establishment of the Inagi Village System, which visited cultural properties related to Inagi Village.

Friday, September 20, 2019 9:30 a.m. to noon

Daimaru Castle Ruins → Enshoji Temple/Kannabizunomamenoten Shrine → Jikushinan → Seiyu Shrine → Gosujuku → Gosu Park → Jorakuji Temple, etc.

A photo exhibition introducing the past of Inagi was held at the 1st floor lobby of City Hall and at the I-no-Machi Inagi Citizen Festival.

1. September 20th (Friday) to October 18th (Friday), 2019
2. October 26th (Saturday) and October 27th (Sunday), 2019 (I-no-Machi Inagi Citizen Festival)

1. City Hall 1st floor lobby
2. Inagi City General Gymnasium (Industrial Exhibition/Agricultural Products Fair Venue)

On February 8th, a history lecture and quiz was held at the Inagi City Central Cultural Center to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the establishment of the Inagi Village System. Nearly 100 people attended the event.

At the lecture, Mr. Akio Sakurai, chairman of the Inagi City Cultural Properties Protection Council, talked about the history from the Edo period, when the six villages of Yanoguchi, Naganuma, Daimaru, Hyakumura, Sakahama, and Hirao were established, to 1899, when Inagi Village was established. He gave a lecture about the Inagi region and its historical flow.

Additionally, at the quiz competition, we asked quizzes related to the content of the lecture, allowing the children to deepen their understanding and attachment to Inagi.
All participants answered the quiz correctly, and then a rock-paper-scissors competition was held with the mayor, and the remaining 10 people were given prizes of Inagi City's specialty sweets.

Saturday, February 8, 2020 from 1:30 pm to 4:00 pm Note: Doors open from 1:00 pm

Central Cultural Center Hall

You can download the quiz sheet and explanation below. Please feel free to use it.

The Inagi Amateur Radio Club, which is based on the Inagi City Amateur Radio Disaster Information Cooperation Association, operated the Inagi Village 130th Anniversary Commemorative Station "8JI130IV" for three months from October 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
Through the operation of amateur radio stations at Inagi City Fire Drills, public operations at the Inagi City Inagi Citizens' Festival, and throughout the city, as well as Mount Mitake outside the city, Mount Mihara on Izu Oshima, and in cities along the Tama River, information about "Inagi" was disseminated to amateur radio stations outside the city and even abroad, promoting Inagi City.