Seeing off the organizers
![](https://gkbn.kumagaku.ac.jp/minamata/wp-content/themes/minamata/image/marchives/konjyaku/main/past/past_14.jpg)
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- People were seeing off the organizers. Roads have not been paved.
- The present scene around Tsuruta Crossing. The roads are paved and houses stand side by side in the area that used to be rice fields.
Reference sources
- The Edo Period:
The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period. - The Meiji Period:
The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.