Inamaura is piled up rice crop or threshing straw. When there was the tsunami in 1854, Hamaguchi Goryo set fire to rice sheaves in the dark and saved people by showing evacuation routes. This episode is published in the textbook of elementary school as “Inamura-no-Hi”. In order to raise disaster prevention awareness in honor of the achievement of Goryo, in the torch-light procession of “Inamura-no-Hi Matsuri (festival)” held in October every year since 2003, people walk through from the Inamura-no-Hi square in front of the Hirogawa Town Office to Hiro Hachiman-jinja Shrine, which became an evacuation site at that time, and the fire is lit on the rice sheaves near the O-torii Gate in the middle.
■Hamaguchi Goryo’s feat related to this place
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Inamura-no-Hi
In 1854, the late Edo period, the next day after the Tokai Earthquake occurred, the tsunami caused by the Nankai Earthquake hit Hiromura village (current Hirogawa Town). In this situation, Hamaguchi Goryo set fire to the rice sheaves, and made it a landmark to go up to the hill because he believed that some people do not know the way of escape in the darkness.
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