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延岡の歴史 History
of Nobeoka
(I had these English sentences corrected by Howard Ahner.)
1578： Sourinn Ootomo fought an
aggressive war in the Hyuga countryside and occupied Matsuo Castle in Nobeoka.
Reference: Nobeoka used to be called
Agata, "the big gathering of villages."
1587： Hideyoshi Toyotomi conquers Kyushu, and is given the Motodane
Takahashi Award for distinguished service concerning repression in Kyushu.
1592： Hideyoshi Toyotomi fought
an aggressive war in Korea that continued for at least seven years.
1597： Takahashi Motodane joined this war. It was Japan's second time to send troops overseas.
1598：
Motodane Takahashi returned to Nobeoka from the war in Korea.
1600： Takahashi joins the East Army during the
Battle of Sekigahara in Gifu prefecture near Nagoya. He was a member of the West Army led by Mitsunari Ishida.
1603：
Agata Castle is completed. Takahashi moves from Matsuo Castle to Agata Castle.
1613： Takahashi is accused
of concealing a crime, and has some of his territory seized. Takahashi is relegated to Fukushima Prefecture. His child
served the Shimazu family in Satsuma, now Kagoshima prefecture.
1614： Naozumi Arima moved to Nobeoka from
Shimabara in Kumamoto prefecture with 53,000 goku.
Naozumi Arima went to "The Osaka War" in the winter of the same
year. Mr. Arima controls the territory of Nobeoka for three generations; Naozumi, Yasuzumi,
and Nagazumi were in
control for 78 years.
1638： "The Shimabara rebellion" begins in October. Naozumi Arima and his son go to the
Shimabara battlefield.
1656： Naozumi Arima donated a large bell to Imayama shrine. "Nobeoka" is carved on the
bell. Later, the bell becomes the Shiroyama Bell.
1683： Fire breaks out at Honkouji and spreads to Shiroyama
Castle.
1747： Masaki Naito came to Nobeoka from Iwaki, now Fukusima prefecture with 70,000 goku. Nobeoka
Hann becomes the Naito Age and lasts for 123 years until the Meiji Restoration Era.
- 以後明治維新に至る123年の間、延岡藩は内藤時代となる。
The Nobeoka Hann becomes Naito age for 123 years including the Meiji Restoration Era and thereafter.
1877：
The civil war of Saigo Takamori begins. The Samurai of Nobeoka joined the Satsuma army as the Nobeoka corps. The Satsuma army
is defeated in Kumamoto and retreats gradually to Nobeoka. The Satsuma army surrenders on August 14.
1878：
The Shiroyama Bell begins to inform Nobeoka citizens of the time of day.
Reference, 1903： The Wright brothers
succeeded in a flight in an airplane for the first time.
1910： A Captain of the Japanese army, Yoshitoshi Tokugawa
succeeds in a flight for the first time in Tokyo at the Yoyogi training center for Japanese army.
1916： Yukiti
Goto succeeded in a straight-line flight in Kadogawa Bay in September.
1923: A Nobeoka factory, Japanese Nitrogen
Fertilizer Ltd. which later became, Asahi Chemical Industrial Co., Ltd., was set up in Nobeoka City, and the manufacture
of synthetic ammonia for the first time began in Japan in October of the same year.
1933： Nobeoka City is born.
1945： Bullet Attacks occur in the heartland region of Nobeoka City, turning it into burnt ground after two
hours of attack by about 60 presumption United States air force planes that approached from the Pacific Ocean at 1:25AM, June
29th.
Instant casualties totaled, 319 and missing persons totalled, 8.
1988： The Shiroyama small zoo
continued for 120 years from the first year of the Meiji era, but it was closed in 1988.
( by S. Ichimiya)
ithimiya@yahoo.co.jp
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