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Hot spring and hot water stage
History of the hot water stage

---The Nakanojo-machi history folkways museum---


The hot spring be the present from the nature to human. People think the mysterious effect of the hot spring the divine protection of God and be the medicine mentor Buddha enshrining as Honji Buddha. The Kusatsu hot spring and Ikaho hot spring become with already famous from the Muromachi era and the hot water stage is materializing as the hot water peace place.

The hot water peace of general persons becomes prosperous from the composed Edo period of the world. When the hot water peace visitor of the Kusatsu hot spring increases and become an Edo latter period (a culture statement government era) especially the hot spring of Agatsuma comes to show bustle. The hot water peace of recently encloses a/the bathroom and there was a hot water stage. As for Kusatsu, the sterilizing power is strong in the acidi spring, there was an excellent effect in the sword damage and dermatosis etc. Ikaho is known as the hot water of the child.
As for Shima the digestive ailment in, as for Sawatari/Ohzuka, there was an effect in a cutaneous disease. Although a few of the method of the hot water peace is different the each by disease the hot spring application of the long stay type as the nucleus was done the medical treatment.

It depends anxiously the disorder and the condition of the world and there was the increase and decrease of a hot water peace visitor. The bather number drastically decreases from last days of Tokugawa shogunate through Meiji early period and the hot spring ground has gone downhill.
However, it was known by people about the effect of the hot spring medical treatment by the Berze doctor (1849-1913) of German. The hot spring hot water peace became prosperous once again by the progress of industry/traffic. Furthermore the bather number saw the peak in the prewar days by the prosperity by the first match.

It has accepted the evacuation child in the hot spring ground during, the second war and the bather number reduced. As confusion settles after the end of the war, the hot spring boom broke out. They through had accomplished the change from in the latter half of 30's from the recuperation type hot spring to the hot spring of the sightseeing resort type an advanced economic growing period, Showa. As a result, the building lines up and the image as an old hot water peace place had been lost.
In recent years, the new hot spring is dug and the hot spring of the day trip type began to conspicuous.
Now, the recuperation type spas such as Shima hot springs leaves the figure of the hot spring as the hot water peace place and be applying the survivor.


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