Saito, Miyazaki
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Saito 西都市 |
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 Location of Saito in Miyazaki Prefecture |
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 Saito
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| Coordinates: 32°7′N 131°24′E / 32.117°N 131.400°ECoordinates: 32°7′N 131°24′E / 32.117°N 131.400°E | ||
| Country | Japan | |
| Region | Kyushu | |
| Prefecture | Miyazaki Prefecture | |
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| • Mayor | Hashida Kazumi | |
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| • Total | 438.56 km2 (169.33 sq mi) | |
| Population (2003) | ||
| • Total | 34,673 | |
| • Density | 79.07/km2 (204.8/sq mi) | |
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Myrica rubra (ヤマモモ) Japanese Bayberry |
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| • Flower | Azalea (ミツバツツジ) | |
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Cettia diphone (ウグイス).JPG)
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| Time zone | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9) | |
| Postal code(s) | 881-0000 | |
| City hall address | 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Saito-shi, Miyazaki-ken 881-8501 |
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| Website | city |
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Saito (西都市 Saito-shi?) is a city located in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 34,676 and a population density of 79.07 persons per km². The total area is 438.56 km².
The agricultural products of Saito include green peppers, cucumbers and sweet corn. And the Saito is famous for its eel from Hokita and the Saito Baru Burial Mounds.
Saito is the 5th largest city in the Miyazaki prefecture. 70% of the city is mountainous, and a river cuts through the city from northwest to southeast. Many other smaller streams cut through the valleys in Saito. Much of the city is covered by mountains and forest (approximately 80%). It is bordered by Kijo Town, Takanabe Town, Shintomi Town in the East and Sadowara Town and Kunitomi Town in the South, and Nango Village and Shiba (椎葉) Village in the north.
The Kojiki is an ancient manuscript which tells many creation and origin stories which attribute to different traditions and in Saito.
The myth of the all night Kagura dance in Shiromi goes thus: When Amatsuhiko-Hiko-Hononinigi-no-Mikoto (Hononinigi) descended from heaven onto the peak of Mt. Takachiho in a place called Himuka of Tsukushi, with him came many servants and gifts received from the sun god Amaterasu, among the gifts were a sickle, a sword and a mirror.
When he met Konohana-no-Sakuya-Bime (Tree-Blossom-Blooming-Princess), a beautiful princess he asked her father for her hand in marriage and her father agreed sending with her many gifts and her sister Ihanaga-Hime (Eternal-Rock-Princess), Ihanaga-Hime's father wanted to endow Hononinigi's children with long life like that of a rock.
However Hononinigi found Ihanaga-Hime so ugly he sent her back to her father and then proceeded to consummate his marriage with Konohana-no-Sakuya-Bime, which was the first marriage between a deity of earth with one of heaven. On returning home Ihanaga-Hime bemoaning her misfortune threw away a mirror reflecting her own image in its glass, the mirror fell in Shiromi. So the Shiromi shrine is dedicated to Ihanaga-Hime.
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