Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Go north on Yaesu Street, there is Yojuin Street (upper left photo). It connects the east and west from Sotobori-dori St. in Yaesu 1-chome to Showa-dori in Nihonbashi 3-chome. It is a road that is often overlooked because there are few road signs. Its origin is "Oman Inari Shrine" (upper right photo). Since Ieyasu's concubine, Oman, is enshrined, and the name of the temple is Yojuin, in 2004 (2004).Chuo-ku RoadThe street nickname was given.

 

Oman (1577-1653) is the mother of Ieyasu's tenth son, the founder of the Kii Tokugawa family, Yorinobu Tokugawa, and the eleventh son, the founder of the Mito Tokugawa family, Yorifusa Tokugawa. It is. Together with the Owari Tokugawa family, they became the three families. According to the historical book of the shrine, "Yusuin worshiped Nichiren sect for generations and procured goods donated to Shinto and Buddha here around Nihonbashi, and merchants who benefited from the virtue built this Inari shrine."

 

An old map of the Edo period shows that this shrine was located in Kamimaki-cho (currently Yaesu 1-chome). On the south side of Hinokimachi in Sobu village headman, the area around Gensoshitamachi. The current Oman Inari has been rebuilt beside the building, and it is a narrow place where only one person can enter, but it seems to remember the past when facing the former Edo Castle (Imperial Palace).

 

This temple is related to all of you.Sendagaya, Shibuya-kuIt's true. At Hounzan Senjuin Temple in Nichiren sect, what was located at Kii Tokugawa Yashiki in Akasaka was relocated to its current location in 1644 and opened. According to the history of the hospital, the Kii Tokugawa family and Iyosaijo Matsudaira family had a temple of 100,000 stones as a Bodaiji Temple prayer place in Edo at the request of everyone. In the magnificent Dou and garden, the "Edo Famous Zoukai" states as "Shinhigurashi no Sato", "It is a very beautiful view similar to Taninaka Nippori, and it is a great crowd of flowers that are full of flowers that are full of Yayoi. "

 

Here, people and cars pass just below the cemetery. The cemetery was planned to be cut off by the expansion of the Tokyo Olympic Road in 1964 (1964), but in order to make the most of the cemetery as it is, the lower part was dug into a cut-through tunnel, and reintermented on it. This tunnel is the Sendagaya Tunnel, which is also whispered as a "spirit spot" (lower left photo). The present main hall (lower right photo) was rebuilt in 1965 (1965), and its roof was filled with the crest of Aoi Tokugawa, a symbol of history.