2. The origin and scope of Edo
In this way, as I touched on the history of the current Chuo-ku from the Nihonbashi area, I came to know the origins of Edo, which had been unstudy until now. Nihonbashi-ku and Kyobashi-ku, the predecessors of the current Chuo-ku, Tokyo, were officially established and established in 1878 (1878), but according to the "Slow Records on Department Revision" created just before that, there is no name for Nihonbashi-ku or Kyobashi-ku, and there are names for Beijiang To-ku and Minamiedo-ku. In other words, the original drafter thought of the area of Nihonbashi and Kyobashi as "Edo", divided it into north and south, and tried to call it Beijiang To-ku and Minamiedo-ku. "Chuo-ku History" draws the literature ("Re-school Edo Sunako" and "Edo Oko Illustration") that "I used to border Kanda moat, south to Edo and north to Kanda". It can be seen that the idea existed even in 1878. It is said that when Chuo-ku was established (1947), the idea of setting the new ward name to "Edo-ku" or "Oedo-ku" was also influential.
In the first place, isn't it appropriate to think that the etymology of "Edo" is "Edo"? "E" is the waters that go in from the shore and are great for sailing. The flat land in the eastern part in front of Ieyasu's "Edo Ouchiri" (1590: 1590), everywhere is "Ashihara with Shio", and by the large civil engineering work to fill it, the town in front of the castle, which should be called "Edo". About the town was completed. Later, in 1593 (1593), the Hibiya Inlet was buried, and the houses scattered there were moved south of Shibakuchi. Furthermore, in 1603 (1603), the land on the right bank of the Sumida River seems to have been completed from Hamacho to around Shimbashi due to a large construction called "the construction of Toshima Suzaki". With this construction, the digging of the downtown area was shaped, and the Nihonbashi River, Kyobashi River, Shin-Hashikawa, and Nihonbashi, which had a renewed face, seemed to have been completed at this time. In addition, after the great fire in 1657 (1657), the coast of Kibiki-cho was filled, and at this time the Tsukiji area was completed, and the former Nihonbashi-ku and Kyobashi-ku were completed.
Therefore, the area called "Edo" was limited to Kandabori (Ryukangawa) in the north, and the border to the south was Shin-Hashikawa. The Nanba Bridge over this Shin-Hashikawa was a place for those who were expelled from Edo. Then, when I crossed Shin-Hashikawa and went to Shiba, there was the head office of Kane Kosukemoto. In addition, Kobashi, located near Hongo, was also a "parting bridge" that expelled sinners who paid in Edo, but near the parting bridge in Hongo, there was also a branch of Kaneyasu. According to Yasaburo Ikeda, Kawayanagi, "Hongo is in Edo until Kaneyasu", is based on the fact that there is Kaneyasu near any of the "Farewell Bridges" north and south of Edo, as described above, and says that "Hongo Mo" means that ("Nihonbashi Private Note" 1972). Certainly, by solving like Mr. Ikeda, the particle "mo" seems to come alive. And if you understand that, you can well understand the idea that the area called "Edo" is originally limited to Kandabori (Ryukangawa) in the north and Shin-Hashikawa (Shiodomegawa) in the south." .
Yasaburo Ikeda said, "Probably, before the downtown area of Edo became a more proud, castle knee, Edo castle town, Shiroshita town before it became the name of down town that confronts the mountains. Must have been. It must have been the birthplace of Edo and Edo towns in Edo, such as Honmachi and Tooricho, as a castle town. The words such as Shiroshita and the castle have a unique pride. ・・・・・・・・・
It is the town where the castle was built in Edo. So the beginning was that the downtown area of Edo was a small area, and the head office, Fukagawa, beyond Okawa, was still sea or marshland, not a town, and Kanda arrived in Asakusa, along with Edo, but it was only a district in temple town in Kannon, like Ichijuku Station. It is long later that Kanda, Asakusa, Shitaya, and Honjo and Fukagawa will become downtown ... "("Nihonbashi Private Note").
It was in 1818 (1818) that the Shogunate's official view on the "range of Edo" (jurisdiction of shrines and shrines) and "sumibiki" (jurisdiction of town magistrate) were presented. It has been almost 230 years since Ieyasu entered the prefecture. When discussing the "range of Edo", it is necessary to specify when and at what stage the story is. However, there are sentences that describe the social situation in the late Edo period as a whole, describe the realm of Zhuhiki as a natural premise, and describe the social situation in the latter half of the Edo period as a whole. The Tokugawa shogunate was established (1603) and reigned (1867). This is longer than the period from the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) to the present (240 years).
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