In Mokutaro Kinoshita, there is a poem called "Tsukiji's Pass".
Awa Dori Hika or Izu Yuki?
I hear the whistle, that whistle
If you cross it, Tsukuda Island.
You can see the light of the metropool.
When included in the first poem collection "Song after meals" (1919), "If you go to Akashicho from Tsukiji's Watari, your shore is Tsukishima, Tsukuda Island, and the lanterns. Indeed, the view of Kawaguchi at night can be the source of artistic inspiration at the time of the opening of the Bread Society. ・There is an introduction to "..."
This "Metropool" is the name of a hotel that once existed in Tsukiji.
According to "Tsukiji Neighborhood Hotel Story" written by Chiaki Kitagawa, "Tsukiji Akashicho Konjaku" (published by the Chapel Committee of St. Luke International Hospital; 1986), "Metropole Hotel" opened in 1890 with 20 guest rooms on the site where the United States Mission was relocated to Akasaka. Later, due to poor business performance, he sold himself to the Imperial Hotel in 1907 and became the de facto Imperial Hotel Tsukiji Branch, but was closed in Meiji 42 (1909).
And the following sentence of Kiyokata Kaburagi's essay "Tsukiji River" is quoted for the hotel and surrounding scenery.
"... Along with Tsukiji and Ueno's Seiyoken, it was a stay for tourists, but the location was good and it was managed by a foreigner, so carriages and rickshaws came and went in the gate constantly. The building was not as separate as it was, it was a rough, wooden plaster-painted chalk. Immediately outside the window, look into the mountains of Boso and fill in the sea breeze room, with Western-style sailing ship masts lined up in the inlet of Tsukuda below your eyes, and a ship selling goods and a Japanese ship passing between them to Tsukuda Island on the opposite shore. ・・・・」
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"After the great fire in Ginza, the settlement was rebuilt, but the hotel building was never rebuilt. However, as you can see in Hakushu's recollection (Note: Hakushu also quotes the poems written by Mokutaro Kinoshita), there were other hotels. In 1890, after the American Embassy moved to the site of the current embassy (Akasaka), a hotel called Metropole was built, and in 1874, Seiyoken was already recommended to Griffice's Tokyo guide." (67) It is said that there is no problem.
