The other day, I heard a lecture by Hiroshi Ozawa, a former director of the Urban History Research Office of the Edo Tokyo Museum and a visiting professor at Shukutoku University's Faculty of Humanities, entitled "Kidai Shoran 200 Years Ago". I thought it would be better to write before the impression of the content of the audit diminished, so I chose it because there were other blogs and stories. Here are some interesting information that you can't get on Wikipedia.
In 2000 AD, Japanese picture scrolls were exhibited at the Berlin Orient Museum of Art (now the Berlin National Asian Art Museum) in Germany. It was a picture scroll called "Kyodai Shoran" depicting Nihonbashi Street 200 years ago. It is unknown when this picture scroll went to Germany, but it was one of the collections deposited by Professor and his wife Custell of the Free University of Berlin.
After that, the Kidai Shoran returned to Japan in January 2003, and was exhibited for the first time at the Oedo Yaohachicho Exhibition, a special exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the opening of the Edo Tokyo Museum in Tokyo. In January 2006, he returned to the Mitsui Memorial Museum's Hall Memorial special exhibition II "Nihonbashi Emaki Exhibition", and in November 2009, a reproduction picture scroll of Hirodai Shoran began to be displayed on the west side of the concourse (Mitsukoshi side) underground at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Tokyo Metro. Honen I was able to actually see the Kidai Shoran at the special exhibition "Edo and Beijing -18th Century City and Living" of the Edo Tokyo Museum held from February 18 to April 9.
The picture scroll of Kidai Shoran depicts the west side of approximately 7 towns (760m) on Nihonbashi-dori (Chuo-dori) from Nihonbashi to Kanda Imagawa Bridge in a bird's-eye view. It depicts 88 stores and people, dogs, horses, cows, monkeys, hawks, and vividly depicts the daily lives of Edo samurai, townspeople, Buddhist monk, and beggars. It describes the cityscape before it was burned down in the second year of culture (1805), the year before the Great Fire of Heitora. The title is "Kidai Shoranten", so it seems that there were other volumes of "ground" and "people". It's one of the three volumes.
What was written in the volume of "ground" and "people"? For example, one of the scrolls may have depicted the east side of Nihonbashi Street (opposite Mitsukoshi). If it existed, I would have found detailed information about "Nagasakiya and Holland House, Bell of Time" which I am interested in. Or there seems to be a story that the direction of Kanda at the end of Imagawa Bridge is written. If this is discovered somewhere, it is a great discovery.
Dogs, horses, cows, etc. are also written, and you can clearly understand the life of the Edo period.
At the end of the Kidai Shoran, a high bill of Nihonbashi is drawn. There are three letters (actuals).
The first is the official document issued by the magistrate in May 1711, Masatokumoto (1711).
* I want to be a parent and child brothers and couples and other relatives, and I should be able to reach the subordinates. What the masters should do in each direction
* You must not be overdoing everything, without spending your family business exclusively.
* To do something that should be harmed or unreasonable;
* A ban on all kinds of hammering
* He humbled his argument, and he should not meet him at any young time. It's something that you don't have to put your hands on ...
The second is the prohibition of the Christian sect, and the third is the law concerning guns in 1721.
The contents of the "Odosho" are words that can be used not only in the Edo period but also in the present day. The celebrity II, who is arrested for dragging and exploding, feels painful. Why don't you put a "high bill" in front of the entertainer's house?
Reference: Tokyo City Guide Club First Seminar 2017: 200 years ago, Lecturer Shigemori Nihonbashi Hiroshidai Shoran Former Director of Urban History Laboratory, Edo Tokyo Museum, Visiting Professor Hiroshi Ozawa, Faculty of Humanities, Shukutoku University
