Category:

Municipally Designated Historic Site

Title:

Katayanagi no fudezuka

The Calligraphy Brush Burial Mound of Katayanagi

片柳の筆塚

No. of features:

One burial mound

Designated:

January 7, 1975

Location:

1-chome Katayanagi, Minuma Ward

Owner:

Under private ownership

Description:

   “Fudezuka” (lit. “brush mounds”) are burial mounds in which used calligraphy brushes were buried to commemorate their service.

This fudezuka was built in 1841 under the order of Moriya Ganshosai, who served as the village headman of Katayanagi from 1791 to 1863.

Ganshosai held an important role in the cultural and educational sphere of the late Edo period as a grandmaster of calligraphy and the Shofu Enshuryu school of flower arrangement.

Associated Texts:

(1987). “Cultural Properties in Omiya” (vol. 3). Omiya Municipal Board of Education.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, locals, and the site’s owners/curators when visiting this cultural property.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/005/001/003/p000509.html