Hello, this is Minato kid. Today, we will walk "Tokikan-dori" from 4-5 Nihonbashi Muromachi to 3 Nihonbashi Kodenmacho.
Speaking of "Time Bell Street", "Kokucho Bell" is "Kokucho Bell". At present, there was a bell at the time of the street, just as it was called "Jinmichi", which entered the back street from the Muromachi 4-chome intersection.
It was founded in the era of the second shogun Hidetada, and it was Genchi Tsuji who took the role of bells. It is interesting because their ancestors also served as an accused (Katsujiki) to inform the time of meals at the temple. After that, he served Ieyasu, played the role of drums, and played the morning and evening time signals.
The bell of time conveys the time to the city of Edo. There is an interesting song and Kawayanagi that gives a glimpse of the daily lives of the people of Edo, surrounding the bell of time.
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Travelers from Edo to Kyoto and Osaka departed after hearing the bell of Kokumachi at seven o'clock (4 o'clock in the morning) on Nihonbashi, which has not yet dawned. This song lasts from the fifty-three Tokaido to Kyoto.
"The bell of Kokumachi is heard to the Netherlands."
It was written like Nagasakiya, the residence of the chief of Dutch trading post, who came from Nagasaki, because it was very close.
On the banks of the bell at the time, in 1737 (1737), the haiku master Hayakawa Hayakawa joined an hermitage called "Yahantei". As an inner apprentice, young Buson Yosa lived here and tried to train haikai. The name of "Night Hantei" is named after the Tang poem "Night Hanno Bell Voice Passenger Ship Nishiru".
The bell when it entered the Meiji era and finished its role. Although it was temporarily lost due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, it was protected by Shichibei Kuwabara in Kodemmacho, and in 1933, a bell tower was built in Jishi Park, and the bell when it was popular with the people of Edo, It was preserved here. The bell has the inscription of casting in 1711 (1711).
The area around Jisshi Park is the place where the Temmacho prison was located during the Edo period. It is said that when there was salvation in prison, he slowed the bell as if praying for life extension. For this reason, it was also called the "bell of compassion."
The ruins of Temmacho prison are the land of the demise of many priests who donated precious blood to the establishment of modern nations, including the Yoshida Shoin, and are considered a sacred place for the history of the Meiji Restoration. At present, there are Daianrakuji Temple and Minobe Betsuin Temple opposite Jisshi Park across the bell street of time.
Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association
No. 23 September 29, 2018
