Nagai’s Dainenbutsu sword dance

Kenji Miyazawa poem monument (inside Morioka High School)

``To all the students, don't you feel the clear, clean wind blowing from this dashing realm of your future?'' The Morioka Daiichi High School where this monument stands is Morioka Junior High School, where Kenji once studied. Taking a break from the stuffy old family where he was born and raised, living in a dormitory, and hanging out with friends of his own generation brought Kenji a great sense of freedom. While attending school, I walked in the nearby mountains and became familiar with many books. Takuboku Ishikawa is ten years my senior at Morioka Junior High School.

Morioka City Ancestor Memorial Hall

A memorial museum that introduces the predecessors connected to Morioka who were active after the Meiji period. It was built in 1988 as a commemorative facility to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the city's incorporation. On the first floor there are memorial rooms for Nitobe Inazo, Yonai Mitsumasa, and Kindaichi Kyosuke, and on the second floor there is a comprehensive exhibition of 127 of their predecessors.

Nitobe Inazo’s birthplace (bronze statue)

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Inazo Nitobe, a cosmopolitan man born in his hometown who ``hopefully becomes a bridge over the Pacific Ocean'', Morioka City built this building on his birthplace in Shimonohashi Town with donations from citizens. Author Fumio Asakura). During the Pacific War, its achievements were largely ignored, and its legacy was only remembered by a few people, but after the war, its role was properly reviewed and reevaluated on both sides of the Pacific.