Otsuma Shrine and Otsuma Taro Kanesumi

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Abstract

　New resources about Otsuma Taro Kanesumi (the ancestor of Otsuma Ryouma) were collected in this study. He was known as the old samurai followed to the retired-emperor Gotoba, and died at the Jyoukyu revolt, in 1221. But new resources suggest/indicate his further activities with the retired-emperor Gotoba. The Japanese cedar which was planted by Otsuma Kotaka in 1964, was identified on this work, and we had the celemony to celebrate the 50^th anniversary from the plantation year, in 2014, which was also the 130^th anniversary of Kotaka’s birth year.