Station plate

Judging from the comment on my previous blog, I found out the lack of explanation about Uzurano St. and ancient Military Air Base for Kamikaze attack at the end of Pacific War 60 years ago.

The railway station "Hokkeguchi" had been the terminal place to come to Uzurano Air Base.

Careful judging on the Station Plate made of wood shows some pale letter written from right to left like Arabic and Hebrew, remembering we wrote and read from right to left in some Meiji generation period over a hundred year ago.

Suppose this station plate had been here hung and recognized by the Kamikaze Pilots and passed by 60 years ago. This kind of imagination makes me feel sad so much.

At left bottom "abiki" is written under the letter "tahara", this is why the St. Tahara was newly established later in 1952 between "Hokkeguchi" and "Abiki".