However, in the latter half of the Edo period, most of the mountain guardians who had lived there left, then only a few remained in Haino located at the entrance to Sasari Pass in the early Meiji period. |
江戸時代後期には大半の山番が下山、明治時代の初めには佐々里峠の入り口である灰野に残るのみとなった。 |