`The second section of construction`

£ A cemetery for Satsuma Heroes of flood control in Horeki at the Kaizo temple

Between Yatomi Town Ama County Aichi Prefecture EMoritsu waju and Kisozaki Town Kuwana County Mie PrefectureETashiro waju

    This section is between Kamashima Yatomi Town Ama County Aichi Prefecture and           
Kisozaki Town Kuwana CountyE Tashiro waju.@It's around the mouth of the Kiso river.       
The purpose of this construction was to change the current of the Kiso river and to let the 
river run into the sea well in order to protect some waju at the mouth of the river against 
floods.                                                                                     
    This construction was mainly to dredge a channel of the Ikada river. It was to widen the
upper reaches of the river to 90 meters, then to dredge it 1.5 kilometers long to around the
mouth of the river ( to make the current calm down ). There was a sandbank at the whole     
mouth of the river, so that they made a waterway in the middle of the sandbank and a saruo  
( cf. g The first section of construction h) to make the water flow smllthly.             
    Now the location of the Ikada river has been changed. It doesn't remind us of its former
self because it was improved and closed by a Dutch craftsman, Johanis de Rijke in the 24th  
year of the Meiji.  The other works at this section were making saruo and driving stakes to 
protect the Ikadabashi shinden.                                                             
     The headquarters of this section was the Shogen temple, where has the grave of Juzaemon
NAITO who killed himself by sword. Juzaemon NAITO was a retainer of a mizu-bugyo ( the      
shogunate official ), the TAKAGIs who resided in Mino and an only one person who            
commited g harakiri hon the shogunate side.                                               
     He was on bad terms with the village headmen, and was pointed out the deficiency of the
construction by them. He was afraid of giving trouble to his master. So he decided to kill  
himself to take his responsibility at a peasant Hikohachi's house in Yatomi Town where he   
stayed then on April 22nd of the 4th year of the Houreki. His graveyard is at the Reisho-in 
at Iwakaki Gifu City. This construction was formally started after a ceremony on Feburary   
7th of the 4th year of the Houreki and was finished in  April of the same year. This section
was the first section to finish the works in all sections. It was said that there were few  
people who commited suicide and died of sickness unexpectedly.                              
   People who lived at the basin of the Kiso three rivers had a duty that they had to engage
in  the bank preservation work maned Haruyaku evey year. Of course it was supposed to be    
the work for nothing , but this time it became the work for payment because it was included 
to help Satsuma Hanshi. Isn't it contradictory?                                             

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About the Kaizo temple

     Many Satsuma Hanshi killed themselves because of the very heartless pressure by the    
shogunate and died of prevalent disease. But evey temple feared the shogunate, so refused to
mourn them because they died at the place of flood control. When they happened to visit the 
Kaizo temple and talked about that, the temple willingly accepted and bury them under the   
clump of bamboo at the back of the temple at midnight. There are the graves of 24 people    
besides Yukie HIRATA ( the tower of memorial service ) | Satsuma Heroes at the second      
and the fourth section in the Kaizo temple.                                                 

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