Menashi District, Hokkaido
Menashi
目梨郡 | |
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District | |
Etymology: "To the east" | |
Country | Japan |
Prefecture | Hokkaido |
Subprefecture | Nemuro |
Area | |
• Total | 397.88 km2 (153.62 sq mi) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 6,069 |
• Density | 15/km2 (40/sq mi) |
Menashi (目梨郡, Menashi-gun) is a
Towns
History
During the Edo period (1603–1868), the ruling Tokugawa shōgun allowed the Matsumae clan (Matsumae han 松前藩) to settle in the Menashi region, which was then named Nemuro. According to the Matsumae clan's Chronicles of Shiragi (Shiragi no kiroku 新羅の記録), from the first year of the Genna era to about Genna 7 (1615–1622) the region's inhabitants (referred to as the Ezo-people, or "Ainu") traded with the Matsumae clan, noting that the Matsumae received 100 small boats worth of eagle feathers and sea otter pelts.
In the first year of the
Toward the end of the Edo period, Menashi was a part of the general East Ezo (higashi ezo 東蝦夷) region. The shōgun assumed control and established more of a presence in the Menashi region around 1799 (
era (1854–1860) that Rausu Shrine was established.1800s
- 1856 to 1857—there was a sulfur spring eruption on the Shiretoko Peninsula.
- 1869—the official government withdrew from the area and Menashi became absorbed by the Hokkaido-Nemuro region.
- 8 February 1882—the region known as Haishichi Prefecture 廃使置県 became Nemuro Prefecture.
1900s
- 1 April 1923—Shibetsu District's Shibetsu Village 標津村 and Ichani Village 伊茶仁村 joined with Notsuke District's Chashikotsu Village 茶志骨村 to form Shibetsu Village, Shibetsu District, thus separating from Menashi. The second class government municipality Uebetsu Village was then established consisting of Chūrui Village 忠類村, Kunnebetsu Village 薫別村, and Sakimui Village 崎無意村.
- 1 July 1930—Uebetsu Village is renamed Rausu Village.
- 1 August 1961—Rausu Village formed its own town administration, renaming the village Rausu Town.