Minamata Konjyaku

Fishing boats at Yunoko Hot Springs

Date
Year 1960
Sept. 16, 2014
Address
Yunokojima Islands
  • 昔
  • 今
  • These fishing boats are for the hotel guests and tourists at Yunoko hot springs. Since 1960 fishing for cutlass fish has been popular. In 1936, a bridge called Kangetsukyo was built to link Ichinoshima Island of Yunokojima Islands.
  • The landscape of the past were people and nature coexisted changed. The concrete sea bank was constructed from 1971 to 1976. But the evergreen trees remain unspoiled.
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.