With a height of 4 feet or 1.2 meters, the stone appears, nothing
special. However, who thought he was saving the lives of inhabitants of
Aneyoshi, Iwate Prefecture, when a tsunami strikes struck Japan, March
11, 2011.
In that grey stone sculpted a warning: "do not set up a home under this point." Anyone violating would face the risk of floods and tsunamis.
And, the community comply with the suggestion that ancient. The small village that consists of 11 houses and 32 inhabitants survived, despite the fact they are in precarious positions. Tsunami waves crashing, only 300 of 2011 feet or 91,44 meters underneath the inscription.
In the history of Japan tsunami often occur. Its ancestors tried to warn future generations through the rock-inscriptions commonly found along the coast. Some stone even 600 years old.
"The inscriptions it is warning between generations, reminiscent of the future generations to avoid suffering the same with their ancestors," said Itoko Kitahara, a natural disaster of the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, to the New York Times.
Is the tsunami in 1896 which killed 22,000 people, convincing the citizens of Aneyoshi to move to higher regions and settled there.
After the condition is stable, long time no tsunami, residents began ventured downhill to the beach. As a result, in 1933 the tsunami struck back, only four survivors. After the disaster, the inscription stone was founded. The stone is believed to be residents of the village, has saved them from the tsunami of 1960.
"They understand the tsunami horror, then they founded prasaasti stone to warn us," said Tamishige Kimura (64), leader of the Aneyoshi.
According to him, learn from experience, the villagers consider the inscription is the policy of its ancestors. "None who dare to break them."
And the suggestion that proved, 9.0 on the Richter scale earthquake and tsunami that killed 29,000 people, the most severe since the earthquake Jongan the year 869, not touching the Aneyoshi. Although there are citizens who have lost four of his family float while traveling in the city.
The inhabitants of Aneyoshi else replicate what its ancestors. Blue paint was slated for the point at which the tsunami waves reach the Hill., 2011
Not only the inscriptions, warning of the ancestors also manifested when naming a location. For example Nokoriya which translates as ' The Victim ' or Namiwake which means the edges of waves.
However, although the Stone Memorial spread over almost all of Japan, many also ignored it. They ignored the advice of the ancestors and built a house near the beach. And, as a result is fatal.
"As time goes by, the person must have been forgotten, until another tsunami which killed 10,000 people over," said writer and expert on tsunamis, Fumio Yamashita.
In that grey stone sculpted a warning: "do not set up a home under this point." Anyone violating would face the risk of floods and tsunamis.
And, the community comply with the suggestion that ancient. The small village that consists of 11 houses and 32 inhabitants survived, despite the fact they are in precarious positions. Tsunami waves crashing, only 300 of 2011 feet or 91,44 meters underneath the inscription.
In the history of Japan tsunami often occur. Its ancestors tried to warn future generations through the rock-inscriptions commonly found along the coast. Some stone even 600 years old.
"The inscriptions it is warning between generations, reminiscent of the future generations to avoid suffering the same with their ancestors," said Itoko Kitahara, a natural disaster of the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, to the New York Times.
Is the tsunami in 1896 which killed 22,000 people, convincing the citizens of Aneyoshi to move to higher regions and settled there.
After the condition is stable, long time no tsunami, residents began ventured downhill to the beach. As a result, in 1933 the tsunami struck back, only four survivors. After the disaster, the inscription stone was founded. The stone is believed to be residents of the village, has saved them from the tsunami of 1960.
"They understand the tsunami horror, then they founded prasaasti stone to warn us," said Tamishige Kimura (64), leader of the Aneyoshi.
According to him, learn from experience, the villagers consider the inscription is the policy of its ancestors. "None who dare to break them."
And the suggestion that proved, 9.0 on the Richter scale earthquake and tsunami that killed 29,000 people, the most severe since the earthquake Jongan the year 869, not touching the Aneyoshi. Although there are citizens who have lost four of his family float while traveling in the city.
The inhabitants of Aneyoshi else replicate what its ancestors. Blue paint was slated for the point at which the tsunami waves reach the Hill., 2011
Not only the inscriptions, warning of the ancestors also manifested when naming a location. For example Nokoriya which translates as ' The Victim ' or Namiwake which means the edges of waves.
However, although the Stone Memorial spread over almost all of Japan, many also ignored it. They ignored the advice of the ancestors and built a house near the beach. And, as a result is fatal.
"As time goes by, the person must have been forgotten, until another tsunami which killed 10,000 people over," said writer and expert on tsunamis, Fumio Yamashita.
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