Tebikigaura Daiba Park is a small clifftop park overlooking Tagi Port and the mouth of the Tagi River which formed the boundary between the old provinces of Iwami and Izumo.
It's the summer solstice and I am starting the 6th leg of my walk heading east along the Sea of Japan coastline and have just entered Izumo.
The most intriguing thing at the park was a pair of cannon. The first a full-size replica of a Japanese-style cannon, and the second, below, a 3/4 scale replica of a Western cannon.
In the 18th century the Matsue Domain installed two batteries, each of three cannon, at this spot and down at the mouth of the river.
The replica cannons here are based on documentation of another battery further up the coast in Tottori.
Looking across the bay is Hinomisaki, the western cape of the Shimane Peninsula where I would be visiting next day.
My plan was to get as far as around Izumo Taisha and spend the solstice night sleeping out...