杉山 (廃村) 福井県勝山市北谷 Sugiyama, Abandoned Village in Katsuyama, Fukui [4K Binaural]

杉山 (廃村) 福井県勝山市北谷 Sugiyama, Abandoned Village in Katsuyama, Fukui [4K Binaural]

越前国大野郡北谷（きただに）村、山間の谷沿いに位置する集落、杉山村。『正保郷帳』（1646年）には「杉山村」として記録され、田方102石余・畠方46石余の村高が報じられています。

藩制時代の支配は、慶長5年（1600年）に福井藩領、寛永元年（1624年）に勝山藩領、正保元年（1644年）に幕府領（福井藩預地）、さらに貞享3年（1686年）以降は幕府直轄領となりました。

「杉山」という地名は豊かな杉の山を背景に名づけられたとされます。明治6年（1873年）の大小区制の際には、北谷流域の中で一時分離を経験しました。昭和期には、原山スキー場の訪問客を受けて集落全体が民宿を営んでいた時期もあります。さらに昭和57年（1982年）には、杉山地籍の岩壁からワニ・恐竜化石・恐竜の足跡など多数が発見され、国内最大級の「恐竜の里」として知られるようになりました。

現在、定住者はほとんどいませんが、山深い谷の風景、石垣跡、そして杉の木の中に佇む静寂が、かつての営みを静かに物語っています。

🌏 English Description
Deep in the Kitadani valley of Katsuyama City lies the former village of Sugiyama. The Shōhō Gōchō (1646) records show the village name “Sugiyama-mura”, with a rice-tax assessed 102 koku for fields and 46 koku for upland crops.

Throughout the Edo period the village passed through a sequence of administrative domains: under Fukui Domain in 1600, then under Katsuyama Domain in 1624, became direct shogunate land as Fukui Domain trustee in 1644, and after 1686 was under direct Tokugawa shogunate control.

The place-name “Sugiyama” refers to the abundant cedar forests that towered above the settlement. In the early Meiji era there was a re-organization of district sections (1873), and later in Shōwa times the village expanded to host mountain lodge guesthouses servicing the Harayama ski area. From 1982 the rock­faces around Sugiyama began to yield crocodilian and dinosaur fossils and footprints — helping to brand the area as one of Japan’s major “dinosaur lands”.

Today the village is nearly uninhabited, yet the silent terraces, the cedar-shadowed slopes and the vestiges of old stone walls remain as quiet witnesses to a vanished mountain community.

Place map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/m6eBQNztdD1RWg3k6

1:24 杉山導場跡　平成１５年８月 同行一同

由来

杉山導場は 昭和七年五月の大火で焼けた後、同行二十戸が十九となり再建につとめ又杉山出身者の方々からの御寄進により四間半に六間半それに九尺に二間の御向拝瓦葺き総﨔造りの立派な建物で七十年間杉山同行の信仰念佛の中心な導場跡地である

合掌
平成十三年八月

1:24 Site of Sugiyama Dōjō (Prayer Hall) August 2001 All congregation members

History

After the Sugiyama Dōjō was destroyed in the great fire of May 1932, the congregation of twenty households was reduced to nineteen, and they devoted themselves to reconstruction. Through donations from people originally from Sugiyama, a magnificent building was erected with tile roofing and total kezuriko construction, measuring four and a half ken by six and a half ken, with a gokōhai (worship hall entrance) of nine shaku by two ken. For seventy years, this has been the site of the dōjō that served as the center of faith and nembutsu practice for the Sugiyama congregation.
Gasshō (Palms together in prayer)

August 2001

Date: 17th July 2025
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