The essay "Moon in the Town" depicts the details of the vicinity of Tepposu Shrine, so I will quote a little more.
"Once upon a time, the banks of Sansankenbori, which flows through the east back of Ginza Street, were quiet enough to walk while watching the moon, but now I can't stand the difficulty of avoiding cars and drunken people. In the Tsukiji River, the lights of the theater are too bright to see the moon. In recent years, the construction of a bridge has been underway and cannot be approached. The digging that flowed through the middle of Akashicho was a place where a row of willow trees growing on both banks and the trees of a coastal house thought about the old settlement, but now it has been reclaimed, It became a wide road for cars to and from.
Because of this, the way I walk while watching the moon runs along the banks of Minatomachi from Tsukuda's ferryboat, and eventually crosses Inari Bridge over Minami Takahashi on the opposite side, and goes to the landing site of Echizenbori.
Inari Bridge is where the stream of Hatchobori enters the sea. Because he was near the gunpowder Inari, he got his name. This estuary is a port where large ships were berthed since the Edo period, and even today there is a pier of the Tokyo Bay Steamship Company and a waiting area for passengers, and the steamship bound for Oshima is so great that the steamer overwhelms the area on this river line. The hull and the chimney rise in the air. ・・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ The number of cargoes and carriers is unknown on the water, and by the end of the sun, the coke flames fired on the side (Funabata) for each of them. In the evening haze that crosses the haze, you can imagine the bonfire of a white fish boat seen in a famous picture.
When I came to Inaribashi and put myself on the balustrade, I imagined a Inobo boat that once went to Fukagawa, Onozuka, and remembered a passage of Shunsui Tamenaga's novel Haruaki Yahata Yoshito. It is. ・・・・・
Crossing Inari Bridge, there is a mistake in Minami Takahashi, where the train passes. Avoiding the lights on the train street and carrying a walk along the riverbank, there are almost no other shops outside the warehouse and wholesaler, so when the sun goes down, it will change from the noisy during the day and pass through without traffic. On the shores of Ishikawajima and Mukohiinata, there are Sakae Bridge and one bridge, and there are Tokai Shrine and Ifu small shrines at the waterfront. Near Eitai Bridge, the vast Mitsubishi Warehouse was a dim light shadow attached to the door of the iron plate, and on the contrary he was lonely. And the road in front of the warehouse was at a wide pier, and there was a lot of openness.
I always go out to the end of this pier, sit on a thick stake, and look at the moon while listening to the sound of the rising tide.......。」 (Winter 1935)
The moon seen from the current vicinity of Eitai Bridge (taken on September 28, 2015)
"Inaribashi" spans Hatchobori (Sakuragawa), the entrance of Hatchobori Funairi moat, and connects Hatchobori and Minatomachi (at that time). It was removed by landfill, and now only the bridge mark is left.
◆This was the creation of the Kanei era (1624-43). Regarding the origin of the bridge name, the gunpowder Inari Shrine in Minato 1-chome, Chuo-ku, was also called Minato Inari, and during the Edo period, it was a shrine facing Minato, where luggage gathered from all over the country was unloaded. Since it was originally located near Minato, the bridge name is also associated with the construction of a steel-tied arch bridge during the earthquake disaster recovery project, but was removed following the landfill of Sakuragawa. (Chuo-ku Local History Club) (Monoshiri Encyclopedia, page 137)
The construction of Kachidokibashi was completed in 1940 (129 pages of Monoshiri Encyclopedia), and was under construction around 1935.
