Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　"All Japan tug of war Festival" posters are lined up on Ningyocho Street.

　I got a flyer.

I will introduce the contents.

Date and time Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:00 to 16:00

Location Chuo-ku Sports Center, Hamacho Park

The Tokyo Metropolitan Tug of War Federation

Simultaneous Yatai Village

　　　　　　Ishinomaki, Kitakata, Kesennuma, and Miyagi's Tohoku specialty products are available! !

　　　　　　Shops and antenna shops in Ginza, Tsukiji, Ningyocho will also open!

In the gymnasium, a tug-of-war tournament

It seems that you can enjoy it outdoors at the stall village.

The tug-of-war tournament is divided into competitors, the general public, and juniors, and 35 teams will participate.

At the top of the flyer is "Great East Japan Earthquake Reconstruction Support".

Please go out for the support of tug of war and the reconstruction of Tohoku.

I noticed that I started walking around the city of Edo, but there are many Inari shrines in the town. One such Inari is "Oman Inari" at Nihonbashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku. If you don't be careful about it at a small shrine between the Chinese restaurant "Yaesu Ohi" and "Sakaseki Izumiya", nicknamed "Yojuin-dori", you will pass by.

It is said that Ieyasu Tokugawa had two regular rooms and nearly twenty concubines. Among them, the two major mothers of the Tokugawa three families, the first generation of the Kii Tokugawa family, the Yorinobu Tokugawa and the first generation of the Mito Tokugawa family, Yorifusa Tokugawa, are "Oman". In order to supply Edozume samurai class essentials, merchants lined the streets around Nihonbashi. Above all, merchants who are allowed to enter and exit the Tokugawa Gosan family flourished greatly in the scale of their business.

It is said that all of them fell after Ieyasu's death and lived in the Kii Tokugawa family as a Ujuin and mourned Ieyasu's Bodhi. It is said that Nichiren sect's strong faith made various donations to Ikegami Honmonji Temple and other places, and was an important customer for Nihonbashi merchants.

After the death of everyone, he recommended Inari to remember his virtue. Originally, it would have been "Oman Inari", but it is said that the Kii and Mito Tokugawa families were frankly "Oman Inari".

Even in the world of Heisei, "Oman Inari caretakers" have been carefully revered and worship continues. Although I am far from the Inari religion, I sometimes hear the history of Oman Inari from the landlady of Izumiya, one of the caretakers who take care of Oman Inari every day.

"Izumiya" has been operating in this area for more than 60 years, but it is said that his ancestors originally ran a sake wholesaler in a gunpowder and handled "downhill sake". Now you can enjoy famous sake from all over Japan. I am a sake enthusiast, a sake enthusiast, at an izakaya with a selection of items that even the pension generation who retired from the office worker can enter and exit with peace of mind.

"Hakodate Ramen Funamizaka" is a regular attendance course.　On the signboard at the storefront!

Cold China $780! The arrangement seems to be good.　I had just finished my early lunch, but I had a good appetite.　After 5:00 pm, there were four parents and children, a strange-aged single woman style, a good physique young man, and a four-person ladies.　A single woman's style ordered cold Chinese. I also ordered the same one. A young man with a good physique was ordering miso ramen.　When it's hot, I say something hot. After all, the restaurant has a reputation.　It's 780 yen for cold Chinese. Not only cheap, but also the taste that apple vinegar felt very good for the body, the noodles were thin, sticky, and the noodles I liked. I ate all the juice.  For a limited time, chilled Chinese is available until the end of August.

 The location is Ginza 2-12-11, diagonally left front of Hotel Ginza Daiei.

 This year, "Setonoichi" (August 6-8) has started in Ningyocho. It is held between the Suitengu intersection and Ningyocho intersection. On both sidewalks of the main street, there are tenants of ceramics wholesalers.

On the first day 6th, it fell for a short time like a squall, but it rained and around 15:30 people gathered and it became usual bustle. There is also an experience course "Creating a work using a potter's wheel" which is interesting.

By the way, I picked up a teapot in Nabeshima, a mug from Arida, and a cutlet bite glass. What is the price?

20 to 30% of the price is lower than the market price. Is the fraction a negotiation? Do you have any new works?

Look for a bargain!

Summer performance!　When it's hot, it's important to manage your physical condition. If you have anorexia or are tired, it is better to cook with vinegar in summer.　Today, I would like to introduce my favorite "Colded Chinese". It's @ 850 yen, cold Chinese of Ikoma eaves at Tsukiji 6-chome 8-9.　Uses apple vinegar for vinegar. The ingredients are salads, charsews, cucumbers, and tomatoes with agar returned from the right, and there are two fragrant small shrimps. It has been devised with a little French dressing.　On top of the noodles, jelly and chopped seaweed are scattered, making it artistic.　I drank all the soup.　A family-like Ikoma eaves. Please drop in once. With this, 850 yen is worth it.

　Postscript: On August 2, we had Tianjin bowl (Tianjin rice in Kansai) guts. My daughter, who came to help during the lunch break, was just like my father, and two grandchildren were my mother.　That's why everyone looks exactly like an old man! I had a smiley day.　　

In the hot summer, the main festival once every three years that Ujiko from the Tsukuda and Tsukishima areas waited for. On the three major music festivals of Edo, Tsukuda Bayashi, six large banners were held, including the Lion Head Miyade and the highlight "Miya portable shrine Funa imperial procession".

The main festival (Reitaisai festival) was scheduled to be held last year in 2011, but this year has been extended by a year since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Due to the aging of the octagonal portable shrine produced in Tenpo 9 (1838), there was the first "with spirit" and "pilgrimage" of the second generation portable shrine Shingu, completed last year (2011).

A town block of Tsukuda 1-chome that preserves the original shape of Tsukuda Island during the Edo period. There is Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine, and shrine parishioner at 1-chome is Miyamoto. The festival is prepared and operated by Sumiyoshi-ko, and Miya portable shrine, which travels around 1-chome, is carried by only members of Sumiyoshi-ko.

At the L-shaped Tsukuda moat at 1-chome, six large flags (approximately 18m in length) and a hug that supports the pole at the main festival are Tsukuda 1-chome town for preservation. It is buried under Kobashi, and it was dug up one month before the festival, and a large flag was set up one week before the main festival.

At the same time, the festival Japanese lantern of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine fell on the eaves of the town's houses, and the Kuroki Torii and Mataki were temporarily installed on the east and south sides of 1-chome. "Oriya", a reed making that houses the town portable shrine and the lion's head, is also built here and there, and the young people of Sumiyoshi Ko (Wakaishi), a large young people, and a caretaker in a yukata dressed in a new style for the festival. There is also a Kariya waiting for the festival, enlivening the atmosphere of the festival.