Mokutaro Kinoshita has a poem called "Tsukiji no Watari".
Awa-dori Hika or Izu Yukika.
You can hear the flute, that flute
If you cross over, Tsukuda Island.
You can see the lights of the metropool.
In his first poem collection, "Song after meals" (1919), "If you go to Akashicho from Tsukiji's crossing, your shore is Tsukishima, Tsukuda Island, and some places to light. Indeed, the view of Kawaguchi at night can be the source of artistic inspiration at the time of the rise of the Bread Society. ・..." is attached.
This "Metropool" is the name of a hotel that used to exist in Tsukiji.
According to the Tsukiji Neighborhood Hotel Monogatari in Tsukiji Akashicho Konjaku (published by the Chapel Committee of St. Luke International Hospital; 1986), the Metropole Hotel opened in 1890 with 20 guest rooms on the site where the United States Embassy relocated to Akasaka in 1890. Later, due to poor performance, it was sold to the Imperial Hotel in 1907 and became the de facto Imperial Hotel Tsukiji branch, but it was closed in Meiji 42 (1909).
And about the hotel and surrounding scenery, the following sentence of Kiyokata Kaburaki's essay "Tsukiji River" is quoted.
"... It was a lodging for tourists with Tsukiji and Seiyoken in Ueno, but since the location was good and it was managed by a foreigner, horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws continued to enter and exit the gate. The building wasn't as much as it was, but it was a square-painted with wooden plaster. Immediately outside the window, looking into the mountains of Boso and filling the sea breeze room, Western-style sailing ship masts are arranged in the inlet of Tsukuda under your eyes, and boats selling goods and Japanese boats for ferrying go to Tsukuda Island on the opposite shore. ・・・・」
In the "LOW CITY, HIGH CITY" siden sticker,
"After the Great Fire in Ginza, the reservation was rebuilt, but the hotel building was never built again. However, as described in Hakushu's recollection (Note: Hakushu also cites poems written by Mokutaro Kinoshita), there were other hotels. In 1890, after the U.S. envoy moved to the site of the present embassy (Akasaka), a hotel called Metropole was built, and Seiyoken had already recommended for Griffith's tour of Tokyo in 1874." (67) It is said.
