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Ichinomiya is a city in north-western Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on the Kiso River at the border with Gifu, famous as the shrine town of Masumida Shrine, as the heart of Bishū wool weaving and for its Tanabata festival. Its top sights are Masumida Shrine, Twin Arch 138, the Zen temple Myōkō-ji and Kenzō Tange's Sumi Kaikan.
The city takes its name from Masumida Shrine, the ichinomiya or first shrine of Owari Province, and grew as the town before its gate. Bishū, centred on Ichinomiya, is counted among the world's three great wool-weaving districts, and weaving here goes back to the Heian period.
Ichinomiya became a city on 1 September 1921 and absorbed Bisai and Kisogawa in 2005; it covers 113.82 km² and had about 380,000 people in 2019. It is known as the birthplace of the café morning service, and its July Tanabata festival, held since 1956, draws more than 1.3 million visitors.
Masumida Shrine is the ichinomiya, or first shrine, of old Owari Province, in the centre of Ichinomiya, Japan, which is named after it. Rebuilt after its halls burned in a World War II air raid, it keeps 12 bugaku masks that are Important Cultural Properties and holds its Tōka festival on 3 April.
Ōmiwa Shrine is an ancient shrine in the Hanaike district of Ichinomiya, Japan, listed in the Heian-period Engishiki as a major shrine. It enshrines Ōmononushi, the god of the famous Ōmiwa Shrine in Nara, and calls itself a first shrine of Owari; in Edo times it was the guardian of Hanaike village.
Myōkō-ji is a large Rinzai Zen temple of the Myōshin-ji school in Ichinomiya, Japan, founded in 1348 by the monk Messhū Sōkō and made an imperial prayer temple in 1356. The swordsman Kamiizumi Nobutsuna trained here, and it is now one of the leading Zen temples of the Owari region.
Iwato Shrine is an old shrine in the Imaise district of Ichinomiya, Japan, listed in the Engishiki and said to date from the reign of Emperor Sujin. Tokugawa Ieyasu came to pray here in 1600 on his march west, and its April festival, begun to mark the 1608 rebuilding, parades three floats.
138 Tower Park is a riverside park on the Kiso River in Ichinomiya, Japan, part of the Kiso Sansen National Government Park, the largest of its kind in Japan. Its Twin Arch 138 tower stands 138 m tall, and its deck at 100 m looks out to Mount Ibuki and Mount Ontake by day and Nagoya by night.
Ōno Gokurakuji Park is a free city park on the south branch of the Kiso River in Ichinomiya, Japan, next to 138 Tower Park. Set between the Okakoi embankment and the river levee, it is a famed cherry blossom spot with a wild bird garden, barbecue area and a monument on the site of Ōno Castle.
Azaiyama Park is a 3.56-hectare city park around Onkoi Pond, an oxbow lake left by an old branch of the Kiso River, in Ichinomiya, Japan. The pond was given by an Owari lord to his doctor in 1811 and opened as a park in 1965, with cherry trees around the water, a fountain and a rose garden.
Asano Park is a moated garden park in Ichinomiya, Japan, on the site of the residence of the warlords Asano Nagakatsu and Asano Nagamasa, known as Asano Castle. Opened in 1917 and covering 0.92 hectares, it has a pond and about 1,000 azaleas that bloom for its azalea festival in late April.
Ichinomiya City Museum is the city's history museum, opened in November 1987 next to the Zen temple Myōkō-ji in Ichinomiya, Japan, in an award-winning building by Shōzō Uchii. It shows finds from local ancient and medieval sites and the large looms of the city's Taishō and Shōwa textile industry.
Setsuko Migishi Memorial Art Museum opened on 3 November 1998 on the site of the painter's birthplace in the Bisai area of Ichinomiya, Japan, to collect and show her work. Its sawtooth roofs recall her family's weaving mill, with a gallery in an old storehouse and a canal inspired by Venice.
Sumi Kaikan is the only work by architect Kenzō Tange in Aichi, completed in 1957 in Ichinomiya, Japan, as the head office of the dyeing firm Tsuyakin Kōgyō, with furniture also by Tange. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2008, it reopened in 2014 as a community and learning centre.
Bisai History and Folklore Museum in the Okoshi district of Ichinomiya, Japan, tells the story of Okoshi-juku on the Minoji road and of local striped cloth and wool. Its annex is the Former Hayashi Residence, home of the post town's waki-honjin family, rebuilt in 1913 with a registered garden.
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