Black hair buried Torii (shrine gate) 2019.04.30

The massive explosion of Sakurajima on January 12, 1914, 1914 (Taisho 3) filled the Kurogami area with volcanic ash and pumice. The Torii (shrine gate) gate of the Beli Gosha Shrine (Kurokami Shrine), which was 3 meters high, was so terrible that it was buried, leaving only Kasagi. The Torii (shrine gate) gate has become less than the height of a person, but the mayor of Higashi-Sakurajima Village at the time stopped digging it up to convey the threat of Eruption to future generations, so it remains in its original form to the present day.

The Torii (shrine gate) gate of the buried Kurokami Shrine and the gatepost of the Nagano clan house were designated as natural monuments of the prefecture on April 28, 1958 (Showa 33). Next door, an old Akou tree that miraculously survived stands quietly.