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Kyoto, with a millennium-plus history as the capital of the country, is a city where the tradition Kyoto City Area Map and culture of respect for human rights, based on the vitality of people living here in diverse positions, have been kept alive in its history. This map introduces some of the spots related to human rights among the many scenic and Kyoto City historic spots in the city, tracing the footsteps of our predecessors. We hope this map will encourage our cooperation in reconsidering human rights and maintaining Kyoto as a city where human-rights culture is alive. Ukyo-ku Sakyou-ku The following link and QR code will link you to video of some related facilities. Kamigyo-ku Kita-ku http://www.facebook.com/jinkenbunka Nakagyo-ku Please use public transport to visit human-rights-related spots. Shimogyo-ku • Visiting human-rights-related spots I, II, and III, Kyoto City Edition (issued by the Kyoto Committee for the Promotion Higashiyama-ku Map of Human- of Human Rights Education) References • Kyoto Human Rights Research Institute, ed. 1998. Travel guide to the history of human rights in Kyoto (supervised by Masaaki Ueda; published by Jinbun Shoin) Arashiyama • Lectures: Visiting human-right-related spots (issued by the Kyoto Human Rights Research Institute) Nishikyo-ku Yamashina-ku Kyoto City’s motto on human rights: Onajidesu Anata to Watashi no Taisetsusa Kyoto Station (Everyone is as precious as everyone else.) Fushimi-ku Minami-ku Kyoto City printed matter No. 275537 Rights-related Spots Issued by Human Rights Promotion Section, Livelihood Safety Promotion Department, Culture and Citizens Bureau, Kyoto City March 2016 Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto International N Conference Center Miyake-Hachiman Kamigamo Shrine Korai Museum of Art Takaragaike Pond Takaragaike 1 Midorogaike Pond Kamogawa-Chugakko-mae Bus Stop Horikawa-dori Inokuma-dori Kitayama Kitayama-dori Matsugasaki Kitayama-dori Shimogamo-hondori Shugakuin Kyoto Botanical Garden Kawabata-dori Kyoto Prefectural Tsuratti Senbon University Kitaoji Senbon-dori Bukkyo University Kitaoji-dori Ichijoji 2 Takano River Daitoku-ji Temple Shimogamo-hondori Senbon-Kitaoji- Kinkaku-ji Temple Bus Stop Kamo River Kitaoji-dori Jishoin Temple Kitaoji-dori Kyoto Lighthouse Site where the Lighthouse-mae Bus Stop Shimei-dori Eizan Electric Railway Kyoto Lighthouse was founded Chayama 4 Shimogamo Kyoto University of Kuramaguchi Shrine Shirakawa-dori Art and Design 3 Karasuma-dori Poetic tablet of Yun Dongju Kawabata-dori Ryoan-ji Temple Shokoku-ji Temple Mototanaka Garden at Jishoji (Ginkakuji) Temple Ritsumeikan University 5 Nishioji-dori Doshisha University Toji-in Temple Doshisha Women's 6 Imadegawa-dori College of Liberal Arts Imadegawa Kyoto University Kitano Tenmangu Karasuma Imadegawa Bus Stop Kamo Ohashi Bridge Demachiyanagi Imadegawa-dori Ryoanji Tojiin Shrine Kawaramchi-dori Kitano-Hakubaicho Kyoto Subway Karasuma Line Horikawa-dori Higashioji-dori Myoshinji Ginkakujimichi Tetusgaku-no-Michi (Philosopher's Walk) Randen Kitano Line Kyoto Gyoen Bus Stop Shishigatani-dori Ginkaku-ji Temple National Garden University Hospital, Kyoto Prefectural ←To Arashiyama Nakadachiuri-dori University of Medicine Kyoto Imperial Senbon-dori Palace Marutamachi-dori Karasuma-dori Kyoto Prefectural Site where the Arashiyama To Enmachi→ University Kyoto Prefectural Kamo River Saga Arashiyama Site of Moain Office of Medicine Zenkoku Suiheisha Kawabata-dori JR Sagano Line (school for the blind and deaf) was founded Shirakawa-dori To Kyoto→ ←Kameoka Rokuo-in Temple Kamanza-dori Kurumazaki Shrine Site of Nyokoba (women’s school) 8 Shishigatani-dori Tenryu-ji Rokuo-in 11 7 Grave of Randen Arashiyama Line To Shijo-omiya→ Kawaramachi Temple Randen Saga Temple Marutamachi Bus Stop Jingu-Marutamachi Marutamachi-dori Kakuma Yamamoto Kurumazaki Marutamachi-dori Arashiyama Fucho-mae Bus Stop Site of Baigan Arashiyama Bus Stop Shrine Sanjo-dori Kawaramchi-dori Marutamachi Nyakuoji Shrine Marutamachi Ishida’ s Heian Shrine Shinmachi-dori Bridge Nanzenji/Eikandomichi teaching facility Keihan Oto Line Reisen-dori Kurumayacho-dori Togetsukyo Bridge Higashinotoin-dori Bus Stop 12 Katsura River Nijo Castle ROHM Theatre Jingumichi Shirakawa-dori Eikando Kyoto Kyoto City Zoo Temple Hankyu Arashiyama Arashiyama 10 Okazaki-Koen ROHM Theatre Kyoto/ 9 Kyoto City Miyakomesse-mae Bus Stop Nijo Nijojo-mae Oshikoji-dori Hall Oike Ohashi Kyoto Municipal Kadono Oi Line Karasuma Oike Bus Stop Brideg Museum of Art Nanzen-ji (Kadono Dam) Kyoto Subway Tozai Line Oike-dori Nijo Temple To Matsunoo-taisha↓ To Katsura↓ Sakaimachi-dori Sanjo Keihan Higashiyama Aneyakoji-dori Karasuma Oike Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae To Arashiyama Shinkyogoku-dori ← Tominokoji-dori Gokomachi-dori Sanjo Ohashi Randen Arashiyama Line Sanjo-dori Sanjo-dori Rokkakudo Bridge Sanjo-dori 0 0.5km 1km Sanjo Nishioji-Sanjo Temple Keage Yamanouchi Rokkaku-dori Korai Museum of Art Tsuratti Senbon Site where the Kyoto Lighthouse was founded Jishoin Temple 1 Venue for learning about human rights 2 Venue for learning about human rights 3 Place associated with human rights of the socially vulnerable 4 Place associated with international exchange The Korai Museum of Art exhibits works of In 1994, Tsuratti Senbon was opened as an exhibition facility where people can extensively The Kyoto Lighthouse was established when education Jishoin Temple houses various materials that Korean art and craft and everyday items learn about human rights, by studying the regional history and community building activities for the blind was promoted in the postwar period, with were used for Japan-Korea exchange in the Edo collected by Jeong Jo-mun, a Korean living in which residents have been involved. The word “Tsuratti” means “doing something an ardent hope of setting up a library for blind students. period, including correspondence, prose and in Japan who loved Kyoto very much. After together.” Tsuratti Senbon was so named in the hope of encouraging citizens to come and Using the donations collected from the general public poetry. In front of the temple stands a guide plate entering the gate of the museum, visitors will see the facility together with their and the private land offered by Tokujiro Torii, who was that outlines the temple’s history, etc. Usually, find stone statues and monuments that family members. a teacher of a school for the blind and who himself was Jishoin Temple does not accept visitors, as it is represent the Korean culture. The museum Admission free. also visually impaired, the Kyoto Lighthouse came into not open to the public. provides visitors with an opportunity to enjoy Phone/Fax: 075-493-4539 existence as a comprehensive facility, whose activities However, a group of five or more persons may appreciating the Korean culture in Kyoto. include not only library operations but also promotion make a request in advance by telephone to be Admission fee is required. of welfare, culture and education of the visually permitted to view the reference materials. Phone: 075-491-1192 Fax: 075-495-3718 impaired. A plaque in memory of Tokujiro Torii has Admission fee is required. been put up at this site. Take City Bus No. 4 , 9 , or 46 to the Kamogawa Take City Bus No. 204 , 205 , or 206 to the Phone: 075-441-6060 Fax: 075-414-0725 御陵 Chugakko-mae bus stop; 1-min. walk from the bus Sembon-Kitaoji bus stop, which is very near Take City Bus No. 6 , 46 , 59 , 206 to the Lighthouse- 5-min. walk from Kuramaguchi Station on the Municipal stop. the facility. mae bus stop; 3-min. walk from the bus stop. Subway Line. Poetic tablet of Yun Dongju Garden at Jishoji(Ginkakuji)Temple《 World Heritage Site》 Site of Nyokoba (women’s school) Site where the Zenkoku Suiheisha was founded 5 Reminder of the lessons of history 6 Place associated with distinguished activities of people discriminated against 7 Place associated with human rights of the socially vulnerable 8 Place associated with distinguished activities of people discriminated against Yun Dongju came from Korea to Japan. Between the medieval to the early-modern periods, there were In the Japanese word nyo-ko-ba (女紅場, In March 1922, a convention to establish the Zenkoku While he studied at Doshisha University, he people called “kawaramono” who were strongly discriminated literally woman-crimson-place), “ko” represents Suiheisha (National Levelers’ Association) was held, was arrested and imprisoned on the charge against. Among them, those engaged in gardening were called weaving, needlework and other skills that women bringing together Buraku people (a minority group of writing poems in Hangul, whose use was “niwamono” and played central roles in creating gardens of learned in order to obtain their subsistence in the subjected to discrimination on the basis of social status) prohibited at that time. He died in prison in Buddhist temples. The most famous among them was Zen-ami, early Meiji period. who sought the elimination of discrimination against them, Fukuoka in 1945. This poetic tablet was set who had outstanding gardening skills and thus was appointed a At this site, in 1872, a Nyokoba was opened as a at the then Okazaki Public Hall in Kyoto City. At the up in 1995 by Korean graduates of Doshisha responsible position by Yoshimasa Ashikaga (1436-1490), the school that imparted these skills to women, convention, the Founding Declaration of the Zenkoku University. eighth shogun of the Mumomachi Bakufu. Zen-ami is becoming a harbinger of women’s education Suiheisha was adopted, which is said to be Japan’s first considered to have been deeply engaged in the creation of the declaration of human rights. This stone monument facilities in Japan. 1-min. walk from Imadegawa Station on the Higashiyama-dono villa, which would later became Jishoji indicates the site where the founding convention was held. Municipal Subway Line. Temple, the Silver Pavilion. Most parts of the present garden at 11-min. walk from Higashiyama Station on the Municipal Take City Bus No. 59 , 201 , or 203 to the Jishoji Temple were renovated in the Edo period.