“Saved the lives of people in the Edo period” Chiba Tateyama Oki collapsed in a typhoon on September 11 at 12:36
When the tsunami hit the “Genroku Kanto Earthquake” that occurred in the Edo period, a large tree in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, where people climbed and saved their lives, collapsed from the base during this typhoon.
This large tree is a leguminous “Sai-kachi” that is about 8 meters high and the circumference is about 5 meters thick. There is a tradition that people climbed on this tree and saved their lives.
The tree is about 1000 years old, but in the morning of the 9th, a person living nearby found it falling from the root.
There was no damage to the surrounding houses because it fell to a vacant lot.
The locals have created a “Meeting Trees to Protect the Trees” and have been designated as a natural monument by the city.
Yoko Saito (73), a tree doctor and a member of the Society for Protecting the Trees of Psychochis, said, “A storm was blowing where there were many branches against the spread of the roots. The tree that I saw was exhausted and sad. "
The man who lived nearby said, “I have been encouraged by this tree every time I pass nearby.