Shiranuka

Shiranuka lies on the Pacific coast of eastern Ezo, where river valleys descend through wooded hills to the sea. A trading district was established here in 1632. During the Ainu uprising of 1669, thirteen Japanese were killed at Shiranuka. In 1800 the shogunate sent fifty members of the Hachiōji guard under Hara Hanzaemon to settle and cultivate the land, but illness and poor agricultural results undermined the venture, and the settlement organization was dissolved in 1804.