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There was not a single place that escaped damage, and the area was thrown into extreme confusion. Along the southwestern coast of Uragatown, there was moderate damage. The roof of the boiler factory of the Kawama Shipyard Company collapsed, injuring two people. In Uraga-machi and Kita-Shimoura-machi, four buildings were destroyed (one vacant house and three storehouses), two utility poles were snapped, three houses were flooded, one road was damaged, 60,000 bundles of firewood were washed away, and considerable damage was done to roofs and walls. Six fishing boats were damaged. Reports from Tagoe Village indicated that sixteen houses had been washed away and twenty had been partially swept away, with no casualties.
▲Kuraki District: In Higashimura Sasashita of the same district, a national road one ken wide and three ken long was washed away. Most of the stone embankment along the coast at Kanazawa Village, Suzaki, was destroyed. Over forty households were flooded, and around twenty fishing boats were seen drifting offshore, though there were no reports of casualties. Two shipwreck survivors were found washed ashore. More than half of the coastal road passing through Isogo, Mori, and Morinakahara in Byobugatake Village (the Sugita-Kanazawa road) was destroyed by the waves.
▲Aikō District: In Atsugi-machi, the water level of the Sagami River reached 1 jō 3 shaku 5 sun (approximately 4 meters) on the night of the 7th, flooding approximately 300 households. Furthermore, as the embankment of the Koayu River broke, the areas of Matsudo within Atsugi-machi, and the three villages of Hayashiminami, Mori, and Tomuro, saw their farmlands flooded over an area of several tens of chōbu.
▲Tachibana District: The water level of the Rokugō River peaked between approximately 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on the 7th, reaching 1 jō 2 shaku 5 sun (approximately 3.8 meters), then began to recede around 4 p.m. Thirteen houses were flooded, and the damage extended across both sides of the riverbanks and even into areas under the jurisdiction of Ebara District, Tokyo Prefecture. The Tsurumi River also rose by 7 shaku, and by around 1 a.m. on the 8th, many houses in the vicinity of Sumiyoshi Village and Hiyoshi Village were flooded, with considerable damage to farmland. The wife and three children of Takai Matsugoro, a watchman at a pear orchard, lost their escape route and were nearly drowned, but were fortunately rescued. Meanwhile, although the coastal area around Kanagawa and Koyasu suffered comparatively little damage, the residences at Seta in Tamagawa Village, Ebara District, on the Tokyo Metropolitan side, experienced severe flooding, with water reaching depths of one to more than four shaku in some places.
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**◎ The Tsunami at Tagonoura, Shizuoka Prefecture**
Even more terrifying in its devastation than the Hokigawa train derailment was the tsunami (*kaisho*) at Tagonoura. (The word *kaisho* [海嘯] may not be perfectly accurate, but we use it here following common usage.) To receive such dreadful news on the very same day of the same month—alas, Heaven sends down calamity with such merciless severity. Tagonoura is the storied place where the ancient poet Yamabe no Akahito once composed the verse: *"Tago no ura ni uchi-idete mireba mashiro ni zo Fuji no takane ni yuki wa furikeru"* ("Going out onto Tago Bay and gazing, how purely white is the snow falling on the high peak of Fuji")—a place still counted among the empire's celebrated scenic spots. Yet even such a place of beauty could not escape the unforeseen catastrophe of the tsunami. Not only did it sweep clean the entire length of the tranquil shores of Tago Bay, but it also transformed the mulberry fields stretching for several ri around Suzukawa into a blue sea. We shall now record the scene as follows.
According to reports about the weather in that prefecture in the preceding days: two days before the tsunami, on October 15th (as in the original text), rain had begun falling since morning, continuing for three days, with the weather presenting an increasingly threatening aspect. Then, from around 8 a.m. on the 7th, a strong northeast wind and rain set in, temporarily raging with great fury, but the rain stopped around 3 p.m. At the same time, the wind shifted to westerly, and this was when conditions were at their most violent. The wind gradually diminished, and by around 9 p.m., something approaching calm had returned. While the heavy rains had caused the rivers of the prefecture to swell and some damage had indeed occurred, the damage to buildings throughout the entire prefecture was comparatively minor. However, at the same time as the aforementioned windstorm arose, fierce waves broke out all along the coast, and the vicinity of Tagonoura Village in Fuji District was suddenly struck by the tsunami, presenting a scene of terrible devastation, the aftereffects of which spread to various locations along the coast. According to accounts from around Tagonoura, the epicenter of the damage, the waves had been roaring loudly on the beach since around the 5th, with angry breakers howling fiercely, and the whole atmosphere had an unmistakably ominous quality. The elderly fishermen, long accustomed to the ways of the sea, had already begun to harbor a sense of dread, feeling that something out of the ordinary was afoot. Then, on the 7th, wind and rain came in the morning, and from around 10 a.m. conditions grew increasingly stormy, prompting the fishermen to take their respective precautions…