Recently, an explanation board for the “Isecho Hori (Nishibori Rugawa)” has been installed at Nihonbashi Kobunacho No. 1 in front of the Kobunacho Memorial Hall (left photo). The installation location was relocated to replace the "Shuuga Kishi Ruins" explanation board, which had been installed in Nihonbashi Honmachi, and the contents of the description were renewed and rebuilt.
This moat, which was excavated in the early Edo period, was called Isecho moat until the middle of the Meiji era, and was later called Nishiborirugawa. On the west bank, which entered the northwest of the Nihonbashi River, there was the "Yone River Bank", on the east bank, the "Kobune River Bank", and on the north side, the "Shuuga River Bank", which was bent in a key shape, close to Nihonbashi, the center of Edo. The "Edo Famous Places" depicts the late Edo period.
In the middle of the Meiji era, the moat on the north side was reclaimed, and after the Great Kanto Earthquake, the moat leading to the Nihonbashi River was reclaimed. The location of the explanation board (right photo: the arrow section of the Edo Kirie diagram) is near the site of Arabubashi and near the site of Yasuda Bank (later from Fuji Bank to current Mizuho Bank). @ Akira Makibuchi
