Tensai Kara Nippon Shi Wo Senjin Ni Manabu Bosai (Chukoshinsho)

[Machine Translation] Fuji eruption caused by the 17007 Hoei Earthquake, the typhoon that turned the Saga Clan into a "military power," and the tsunami that Hisaya Morishige encountered. The records of these "disasters" left behind in historical documents reveal "another history of Japan". Fuji, the "smell" that warns of landslides, and the ironclad rules for surviving tsunamis. The author, who moved to a tsunami prone area after the Great East Japan Earthquake, shares the wisdom of our ancestors to protect our lives from disasters.

豊臣政権を揺るがした二度の大地震、一七〇七年の宝永地震が招いた富士山噴火、佐賀藩を「軍事大国」に変えた台風、森繁久彌が遭遇した大津波―。史料に残された「災い」の記録をひもとくと、「もう一つの日本史」が見えてくる。富士山の火山灰はどれほど降るのか、土砂崩れを知らせる「臭い」、そして津波から助かるための鉄則とは。東日本大震災後に津波常襲地に移住した著者が伝える、災害から命を守る先人の知恵。