It is introduced that Ichinoseki Domain equipped a drum tower, with an exceptional permission for such a minor domain by the Edo shogunate, in the late 1680s to inform their people noons and midnights.

#184 Japanese Drum

Type

Areals

Place

Kamino Bridge

Area

Ichinoseki, Iwate

Country

Japan

Date

20 July 2009

The place and area names are as of the visited points of time.