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Ohtoro Lantern: 大灯籠 Shimosuwa Sankaku-Batcho #2 Traditional Cache

Hidden : 6/29/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

下諏訪三角八丁(Shimosuwa Sankaku-Batcho) #2: Corner of a triangle


There is a big stone lantern near Harumiya Daimon Big Torii gate.
This lantern has been referred to as "Big Lantern".
There is also a 6m in height, It was made in 1829.
Lake Suwa was so wider than it is now in the past, it is so well looked fire of this lanterns, from the fisherman who is on the lake.

And this lantern, and Suwa Taisha Harumiya, triangle connecting the Suwa Taisha Akimiya is the area called "Sankaku Batcho(meaning triangle, one side of about 880m) " from the old days.

I was set up in the vicinity of big lanterns cache.

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春宮大門大鳥居の近くに、大きな石灯籠が残っています。
この灯籠は「大灯籠」と呼ばれています。
高さが6mもあり、文政12年(1829年)に作られました。
昔は諏訪湖が今よりも広かったので、この灯籠の火も湖にいる漁師からもよく見えたそうです。

この灯籠と、春宮、秋宮を結んだ三角形が、昔から三角八丁(八丁=約880m)と呼ばれるエリアです。

キャッシュは大灯籠の近くに設置しました。

 

 

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