At the base of Nihonbashi, there is a brewed restaurant <Nihonbashimurocho Honen Manfuku> along the river. "Kawaterasu" is also set up, which transmits cultural information not only through eating and drinking, but also through product sales and lectures. I participated in Honen Manpuku Juku, which is held every month here. The lecturer this time was Yasubee Hosoda, a long-established Japanese confectionery company <Eitaro Sohonpo>, and a person like a living character of the 92-year-old Nihonbashi neighborhood.
There are four theories about why it was named Nihonbashi.
１．Overlooking Mt. Tsukuba to the east and Mount Fuji to the west, you can see the sunrise rising on the sea, and the best view in Japan.
２．Because it is a bridge in the center of Edo and is the starting point of highways to the whole country.
３．When Ieyasu Tokugawa built a town in Edo, it was a bridge made by daimyo across the country providing people, money and goods.
４．According to the theory of Yasaburo Ikeda of Keio University, during the Edo period, when the Nihonbashi River was called Hirakawa, Hitotsubashi, Takebashi, Itabashi, etc. were called Nihonbashi, but it was suddenly called Nihonbashi.
The nameplate of the bridge pillar was written by Yoshinobu Tokugawa, the 15th general, which is easy to read and beautiful typeface. Nihonbashi, the name of this bridge, the horizontal line (1) in the middle of the character of the book is a dot (,), and Kobo also said that it was an error in the brush or trivia.
In addition, a trivia statue of Kirin on the bridge, a movie called "Kirin's Wings". In fact, this is not a wing, but a fin of Kirin. The wings originally evolved from the bird's forefoot, and it is true that this Kirin has a solid forefo
ot on the fish shore until the Great Kanto Earthquake, and it is not a `` jump from here to the world '' It's put in the thought.
When a wooden bridge was replaced with a stone arch bridge in 1911, a beautiful bridge was built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where one-tenth of the total construction cost was spent on decorative art. Covered directly above. Since then, Mr. Hosoda and other locals have been exercising to regain the landscape and eliminate the anxiety of earthquake resistance for 50 years, and the signatures have been collected 490,000!
This year, with the aging of the capital city, the underground construction of expressways has begun to be considered with the aim of reviving the landscape of Nihonbashi and redeveloping the area around Nihonbashi. Will there be a day when this scenery will change in the near future?
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