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The 87th "East Odori"
It will be held for 4 days from May 27 to 30 (Mon).
The posters of the guide are often noticeable in Ginza and Tsukiji, so I think everyone knows well.
If you look at the website, you can see that the Tokyo Shimbashi Association East Festival and the Tokyo Shimbashi Association consists of a restaurant club and a geisha club. I thought it. The union is located in Ginza 8-chome.
Oh! I don't know! I would like to investigate this, so I asked the Chuo-ku Tourism Association to arrange it.
Mr. Shingo Okazoe, President of the Tokyo Shimbashi Association.
I visited a restaurant, Mr. Kanadanaka.
Looking at the Q & A I prepared, it's too neatly organized. For an hour and a half, he was able to talk about the spirit of enterprising from the history of the origin of Shimbashi Geisha to the days of hardships.
Then, from the history section
It is well known that the absences of each clan, who were packed in Edo in sankin kotai during the Edo period, played and drank at restaurants in the name of information exchange.
According to the explanation board of the ruins of the Kinharu Yashiki, "There are Yotsuya of Kinharu, Kanze, Hosho, and Kongo as Noh actors directly under the Shogunate, and the Kinharu family worshiped the mansion in 1627 (1627). Later, the mansion moved to Kojimachi, but geisha gathered on the site and developed as a flower district. " When I asked this story, Mr. Okazoe told me the detailed roots from there.
―――He lent the home area given by Mr. Kinharu Tayu to a performing arts teacher, and since the teachers had many beautiful women, they were called to welcome and welcome the daimyo residence. Mr. Tokiwazu Mojiwasa of Kinharu Performing Arts Village, got permission to take care of the elderly in Edo shogunate at the time, and performed the arts, which was the basis for the Hanayanagi world. Was.―――
late Tokugawa shogunate, the young samurai who came from the West with the rejection of the Emperor, were not treated at the finest Yanagibashi at the time, but Shimbashi Geisha warmly welcomed him.
As a result, in the early Meiji era, Yanagibashi, which inherited the culture of Edo, Shimbashi, the emerging city Shimbashi, and the Shimbashi Hanayanagi world developed before it was called Shinryu Nikyo, but also secret stories were introduced here Was.
―――When the Tokaido Line opened to Nagoya, Kaoru Inoue from the Choshu clan, who served as an old man, Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Minister of Home Affairs, etc. of the Meiji era, borrowed a train from Shimbashi Station to Nagoya Station and invited Shimbashi Geisha to the Hanayanagi world in Nagoya to perform a dance there. At that time, Nagoya seemed to have been very active in both business and performing arts since the promotion of Owari weather in fighting with Yatsushiro Shogun Yoshimune.
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Unfortunately, the dance of Shimbashi Geisha at this time was not well-received in Nagoya, and told geisha, Nagoya, "When I heard from far away from Tokyo, I thought it would be pretty beautiful, but it was never big if I saw it nearby. It was as if he was abused as "Gifu lantern" and was shameful and felt very frustrated. When I dropped my shoulders and returned to Shimbashi, a heavyweight of the land started a year. We welcomed a first-class teacher called Soke Iemoto from all over the country. It was said that the desire to practice and dance better led to the construction of Shimbashi Enbujo in 1925. The state-of-the-art brick Shimbashi Enbujo at the time has continued since it dropped the east.―――
It seems that they are competing with Nihonbashi (Yanagibashi) and Ginza (Shimbashi), but they are said to have developed through friendly competition.
The enterprising spirit was not only that, but Shimbashi Geisha made a fashion by incorporating the color of kimono and novel patterns. The color at this time is Shimbashi blue, and the novel Moe yellow color is Shimbashi color. She was wearing such a wonderful kimono with such a bright color, and the children of a good family imitated it. It's fun! It's going to be a book.
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shinbashikumiai/index.html For information on “Higashi Odori” and HP, please refer to http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shinbashikumiai/.
http://blog.nihon-kankou.or.jp/kankoublog/JTA13102.php?itemid=9448
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