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2015 "Town Walking Tour" Long-established Tour 1 (2nd)

[Sam] 18:00 on October 9, 2015

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 This year's “Town Walking” tour hosted by the Chuo-ku Tourism Association is finally in the second half.

This time, we will introduce the state of "Industrial Course Long-Term Tour 1" held on October 2.

This course will visit Castella's Civilization Hall, Knife no Kiya, and Yamamoto-noriten Main Store, listen to the history and products of the shop, and touch the spirit of business that inherits tradition. Small tour.

 

R0035339 (2)RRSGS.jpgThe first store is Bunmeido Tokyo Nihonbashi Main Store

In 1900, Anzaburo Nakagawa was founded in Nagasaki.

We will talk about the history of castella, the history of nostalgic commercials, company history, etc. until castella is made.

Currently, there are seven corporations with the same origin nationwide, and as a group company based on a production and sales system closely related to each region, we have a mutual cooperation system.

His commitment is to make confectionery with carefully selected materials and skills of skilled craftsmen. For example, "Specially Selected Gosan Castella" uses carefully selected materials such as ultra-thin flour, Tokushima Wasanbon sugar, and U.K. Cotswald honey, which are baked by skilled craftsmen.

In addition, "53" castella is a finest product with a richer flavor of castella, and its name is derived from the fact that the ratio of egg yolk and egg white used is 5:3, In addition to the theory that "Gozo no Kiri", it is said that it is based on the paulownia crest "53 paulownia", because it is delivered in a paulownia box as an important gift, it as an important gift, it is as an important gift.

 

R0035370R'RRSGS.jpgThe second store is Nihonbashi Kiya Main Store

In Kansei 4 (1792), the first Isuke Kato was granted "Japanese shop curtain" from the Kiya main store, where he was dedicated, and became independent, and founded a batting wholesaler.

First of all, from the explanation of the "Kidai Shoran" picture scroll published in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on October 27, 2011, which was displayed at the store.

This is a bird's-eye view of the main street (now Chuo-dori) from Nihonbashi to Imagawa Bridge in Edo around 1805 from the east side. Among the 88 wholesalers and shops along the road, there are four wooden shops, including the main office under contract, and the wooden shop on the far right (north side) is the same trademark used inJapanese shop curtain.

Next, the origin of the name "Kiya", the history of the knives Kiya, the succession of traditional techniques and the introduction of new technologies ("Edelweiss kitchen knife" using Austrian stainless steel, "Cosmic Danjuro" using powdered steel) kitchen knives and cutting boards (each steel / stainless steel / powdered steel alloy) In addition to talking about wood / wood.

The exhibition "Hakata Mizuhiki Nagasawa Hiromi Exhibition" is currently being held at the izutuki Space, a place for disseminating traditional Japanese technology, newly established in the fall of 2014.

 

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The third store is Yamamoto-noriten Nihonbashi Main Store

In Kaei 2 (1849), the first Tokujiro Yamamoto was founded at the current location.

In the back of the shop, there is a signboard of gold letters used in the old building.

First of all, the design applied to the current headquarters building completed in 1965 (designed with a school warehouse on the outer wall of the building, Shigaraki ware tiles that stylized the male cells of the laver on the back wall, the ceiling image of the sail and bottom of the laver ship) and figurines (models of "enclosure jars" and "nori boat" that used to store laver).

Next, the history of the company, the creation of seasoned seaweed, the season of seaweed, the production area of seaweed, the cultivation method (post type, floating type), the origin of the "Maruume" mark, how to preserve seaweed, and actress Yoko Yamamoto We asked about the best in the world for exclusive model contracts (1967-) Guinness Record certification.

A long time ago, before the life history of laver was elucidated, sowing work was carried out relying on cans and experience, production was unstable, and it was sometimes called `` Unkusa '' as a market product It seems that

 

Mr. Hoshino, manager of the main store of Bunmeido Tokyo Nihonbashi Main Store, Kaneko, manager of the Nihonbashi Kiya Main Store, Yamamoto-noriten Nihonbashi Main Store Kawada, thank you very much for your valuable story during your busy schedule.