Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Recently, I took a walk around Hamacho Park. The weather was fine and the ginkgo shined in the soft sunlight in the evening.

Rather than yellow, it was golden, and I felt like there was something good, so I took it in my camera.

 

 

Finally, December is the season when the city shines with Christmas illuminations.

　

Especially in Ginza, the whole city is gorgeous with illuminations.

Here are some walking courses where you can enjoy the Christmas season.

　

First, go to the Sony Building at the Sukiyabashi intersection.

Until December 25, "Sound Planetarium 2014" will be held.

　

　

In the beautiful starry sky of "MEGASTAR-II", a planetarium that can project as many as 10 million stars, a program where you can enjoy a trip to the moon on a high-quality high-resolution sound source.

The starry sky reflected in the full room is very romantic.

　

In the second half of the program from December 1st, you can listen to unicorn "Fee So Moon", Ken Hirai "Tomorrow" and Fumiya Fujii "Breath at Dawn".

　

From 11:00 to 19:00, it is projected at 5, 25 and 45 minutes per hour.

It seems to be crowded on weekends and holidays and after 17:00, so weekdays are recommended.

　

In particular, it is recommended for the illumination walk around 16:00.

Because when I saw the planetarium at that time and went out, it was already dark, and the neon in the city of Ginza looked like a star, and it was very beautiful.

　

　

After leaving Sony Building, take Harumi-dori St. toward Tsukiji.

Turn at the corner of Wako at the Ginza 4-chome intersection and follow Chuo-dori toward Nihonbashi.

　

In front of Mikimoto, a beautiful Christmas tree

Every hour, you can enjoy the illuminations that change the dazzling color.

　

　

This tree, which has been popular as a winter tradition, is said to be the last this year due to the rebuilding of the Mikimoto Building.

It is lit every day until 22:00 until December 25.

　

A little more on Chuo-dori toward Nihonbashi, and Illumination of the Bulgarian Tower.

Bulgarian's characteristic design "Serpenti" shines.

The eye color is different every year, and this year it is purple.

　

　

The illuminations of Chanel's building on the diagonal line of the Bulgarian Tower, Louis Vuitton next door, are also beautiful.

　

Then go further toward Nihonbashi and pass through the overpass of the Ginza 1-chome expressway, you will see Tokyo Square Garden.

This is also colored with beautiful illuminations every year.

　

　

In the underground garden, there is a romantic gazebo.

There are benches inside, so be sure to take a commemorative photo.

　

There are many fashionable cafes, restaurants, and bars in Tokyo Square Garden, so it's nice to enjoy tea and meals, and Tokyo Metro Kyobashi Station is directly connected to the square, so it's convenient to go somewhere next.

　

From the Sukiyabashi intersection to this point, about 1 km Christmas illumination walk course

If you have time, please enjoy it.

 

 

          

 

 On November 28th, Koami Shrine "Doburoku Festival".

It is believed that the Nigori sake "Doburoku" of offering was served to worshipers at "Niiname-no-Matsuri" to appreciate the rich harvest of five grains.

Niiname-no-Matsuri usually takes place on November 23, but it is said that the area is usually held on November 28 (29 for Sunday and 27 for Saturday) due to fewer holiday populations.

On the day of the event, a limited bottle of sake "Good luck", which is based on the benefit of this shrine, and "Mimizuku", which is a good luck eradication, will be distributed, so this day is also a long line early in the morning.

"Mimizuku" is based on "Susuki", a representative of the seven herbs in autumn, based on the Doburoku Festival in November, and the benefits of exorcism and business prosperity are the "mi" of their own "mi" (body) and their family. ) Is awarded because it is "Tsuku".

Doburoku is served by worshipers from 9:00 am to evening.

(Three types of paper cups of large, medium, small and medium, and different capacity are available.)

After the festival from 12:00, the nationally designated Intangible Folk Cultural Property "Sato Kagura Dance" is dedicated to Jinmae.

Koami Shrine was enshrined in the first year of Bunsei (1466) and is said to reach 550 years in 2016.

To celebrate this honorable celebration, the precincts have been maintained one after another since last year.

In 2013, amulet reception counter was relocated, and Zenrai no Ii was relocated.

I hear that there is a plan to replace the roof of shrine hall and Kagura Hall.

 

       

 

 

Chuo-ku is held twice a year in spring and autumn.

 

1 Business name: Hard tennis classroom

 

By the way, the schedule is from April 11 to May 20 in the spring of 2014, and from September 9 to October 17 in the fall on Tuesday and Friday from September 9 to October 17.

 

2015 is undecided.

 

2 times: 10 times in total     In principle, Tuesday and Friday

 

3 hours: From 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

 

4 Venue: The school grounds of Kyobashi and Tsukiji Elementary School

 

5 Lesson fee: 2,500 yen in total 10 times

 

6 Targets  ：18 years old or older

 

7 Capacity ：60 people

 

Details will be published in the ward's news [central] March 1 and August 1.

 

I was also invited to participate in a hard tennis class for the first time.

There are A class for those who have first divided into classes and have never played tennis at all, B class for those who have played a little tennis, and C class for senior who have graduated from A class.

In each class, 3 to 5 coaches can be taught kindly and politely, so it is safe for beginners.

Occasionally, after the hard tennis class ends, there is also a social gathering, where you can make friends and it is a very fun classroom.

If you want to start playing tennis, why don't you join us?

 

 

　For a person to live his life as a poet

　You are intelligent and purely

　I had to live purely

　See you again

　I have to die early!

　(Tatsuji Miyoshi, "Breath of Life Spring")

　Michizo Tachihara (1914-1939), who was born in Nihonbashi, lamented by Tatsuji Miyoshi, a fellow of the doujinshi "Shiki", lamented his death. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 75th anniversary of his death.

　Michizo Tachihara was born in July 1914 at 3-1, Tachibanacho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently around 3-9-2, Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku). The ancestor of the mother are the famous Confucian scholar Tatehara Midoriken, and his child and painter Kyosho Tachihara. The birthplace's family business was the manufacture of wooden boxes for packing, which was quite extensively operated in the center of the wholesale district in Nihonbashi. He grew up in the downtown culture and went to Yotoku Kindergarten and Hisamatsu Elementary School in Hamacho, and was said to be the Shundo since the school opened at Hisamatsu Elementary School, and passed the chief for six years. After that, as with Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Tatsuo Hori, he went to Minaka, Ichitaka, and Teidai, but at university he studied architecture instead of the Faculty of Letters, demonstrated his talent here, and was given to the best student "Tatsuno (Kingo) Award" Has been awarded three times. After graduating, I joined the architectural office of a renowned architect Kikuji Ishimoto on the shore of Sukiyabashi and designed several buildings.

　In the field of poetry writing, he visited Setagaya Wakabayashi's home in Kitahara Hakushu during his junior high school days and continued to write poetry with interest from an early age. In the year he joined Ishimoto Architectural Office (1937), he continued to publish a collection of poems "Stop in Kayakusa" and "Poetry of Akatsuki and Evening". In March 1939, the month before ending a short life due to a sudden change in tuberculosis, Was selected as the first winner of the Chuya Nakahara Prize. His poems are described as delicate, pure and musical lyric in the form of 14 lines. Tatsuji Miyoshi says, "Slightly light music that can speak in our language, as much as we can sing." There is a feeling that it is an excellent lyric poem built with a design drawing called Sonnet and an architectural material called Japanese. His poems are often said to be musical, but it seems that there is a word "architecture is frozen music", so I wonder if it's too bad. It seems to be a lyric poem by science brains, like abstract paintings that are often used in Japanese lyric poems, such as sentimental and glamorous things and private novels.

　All the buildings he designed have been lost. However, dreaming of a newlywed life with Asai Mitobe, whom he met at work, he was preparing for his death. It was built in 2004 with the efforts of volunteers based on the sketch. It seems that the place he thought was on the other side of the swamp.　This year is just 10 years.

　This year, the 100th anniversary of his birth, commemorative events were held at Karuizawa and Bessho-numa in Shinshu, which often visited on the edge of Tatsuo Hori and often set the stage of his poetry. It seems that there was no special event in Chuo-ku, which was a fabric and spent most of his short life. Is he unfamiliar because he did not leave the original Edokko-like part outside or did not make the local area the stage of his work? I feel a little lonely. So, on the day of Koharu weather, in memory of Michizo Tachihara (because it is painful to Shinshu), I walked around the birthplace, the tomb of Tahoin in Hisamatsu small, Taninaka, Bessho Numa Hyatin House, etc. .

　[From the top of the photo]

　●　Around the current Tachibana-cho birthplace

　　　Many poems and architectural drawings were produced in the attic of a newly built house after the earthquake.

　●　Hisamatsu Elementary School, "Learn here" monument on the left side of the main gate "Michizo Tachihara Learn here"

　●　Tomb of the Tachihara family of Taninaka Tahoin

　●　Fushinkoso (Hiyacinth House) in Besshonuma Park, Minami-ku, Saitama City

　

 

 

          

 

 In late November, the cold weather became even more severe, and it was as cold as Shiwasu.

Finally the end of autumn.

The rows of ginkgo trees on the Akashicho Green Road are completely colored yellow and are at their best.

By the way, on November 25, the Tokyo region "Ginkgo Yellow Leaves", one of the Japan Meteorological Agency's plant seasonal observation information, was announced.

It is said that it is five days later than normal and one day later than the previous year.

This time, we picked up the autumn leaves of "Momijibafu (also known as U.S. Fu)," which is also planted along the Akashicho Green Road.

A deciduous Takagi of the family Asteraceae, native to North America, Central and South America.

The bark is brownish, shallow and longitudinal. The flowering season is around April.

Fu is written as maple and leaves are also palm-shaped, alternate, with a collection of fruits (spherical shape) hanging, while the leaves of maple (collectively term for the maple family maple) are opposite and have a propeller-shaped wing fruit.

It is a neat tree shape and has a variety of autumn leaves, from green to yellow to yellow to orange to red, so it can be parabled as "seven colors of autumn leaves" and gorgeous.

The fruit of "Iga" with a long handle that remains on the branches after falling leaves is also impressive.