At Kyobashi 3-chome, beside the expressway that separates Ginza and Kyobashi, there is a monument to the birthplace of Edo Kabuki.
This is because in the first year of Kanei (1624) in the early Edo period, the founder of Nakamuraza, Kanzaburo Saruwaka (Nakamura) fried a Kabuki performance tower (Yagura) in Nakahashi Nanchi (currently near Kyobashi 1-chome). It is due to the fact that it was done. This was the origin of Edo Kabuki.
In the upper center of the monument, mimicking the tower, you can see Nakamuraya's regular crest and Tsunokiri Ginkgo.
Next to the monument stands, there is Brother's Tokyo Showroom.
Brother Industries Co., Ltd. started in sewing machine manufacturing and is now a listed company (headquartered in Nagoya) boasting a strong brand power in facsimiles, copy machines, etc. Kaneyoshi Yasui was founded in 1908 (Meiji 41), and the trade name of Brother was derived from the fact that Masayoshi Yasui inherited the business in 1925 and changed the company name to Yasui sewing machine brother business association. It seems to be
At the entrance of this Tokyo showroom, there are large photographs of the image characters Kantaro Nakamura and the Shichinosuke brothers (Brothers). Needless to say, the Kantaro and Shichinosuke brothers were Nakamuraya, the sons of the eighteenth generation Kanzaburo Nakamura, who died three years ago, and had been concerned about the relationship with the monument next door for a long time.
So, at the reception of Brother Tokyo Showroom, "I should solve the question," I asked about that point, and found that the birthplace of Edo Kabuki and the appointment of Nakamuraya Brothers were not particularly relevant. However, there was a similar question from the customer. That's right.
The photo below shows Nakamuraza reproduced at the Edo Tokyo Museum (Sumida-ku).
