The “Marugoto Museum” and “Nihonbashi / Kyobashi Festival” of autumn events in Chuo-ku are over, and the scenery of the city is finally changing to costumes for Christmas and year-end. Looking at the scenery of the city heading for winter, you will naturally look back on yourself this year.
As you know, there are many antenna shops all over the country in Chuo-ku. Among them, I want to take a look at the new store I visited recently because of the new memory of the land.
On my way home from work, I walked around Nihonbashi at night and went around some shops, so I would like to introduce it while immersed in the lingering lingering of my trip.
The Nihonbashi Fukushimakan-MIDETTE is the closest antenna shop in Nihonbashi to Kanda. I've been enjoying a leisurely trip to Aizu on the Tobu train departing from Asakusa this fall, but it's a shop in Fukushima Prefecture.
This year, "2017", a celebration event was held in Tokyo, but in Aizu, it was called "Boshin 150th Anniversary". As you know, Aizu is the place where a sad battle took place in Boshin war 150 years ago. It was also a journey that reminded me of such a history.
One of the pleasures of traveling is the local regional cuisine. There is a dish called "Kozuyu" in Aizu. It seems to be a dish served at New Year's and celebrations, and it is a "feast" that contains a lot of dried food and root vegetables. I was very healed by the simple taste.
When I looked for it at this shop, I bought it because it was lined up on the shelf.
The antenna shop can be used when the souvenirs you eat are too delicious and regret that they should have bought more. If you have such a souvenir, please go to the shop and look for it. I'm sure you can find it.
I crossed Nihonbashi and came in front of the newly renovated Takashimaya this year. The scenery of the city around here has recently changed, and the pleasure of strolling has increased.
The antenna shop in Yamaguchi Prefecture near here is "Oidema Yamaguchikan". Yamaguchi Prefecture is the westernmost prefecture in the Chugoku region, but there are many attractive bridges in the Chugoku region, so it is a very enviable place for me who like bridges.
In Yamaguchi Prefecture, the historic bridge called Kintai-kyo Bridge and the Kanmon-kyo Bridge over Kanmon Straits are famous, but the most memorable thing is Tsunoshima-ohashi Bridge, which I visited two years ago. I still can't forget the superb view as if I were in the sea of Okinawa.
Well, I stopped by this shop because I was interested in Yoshida Shoin in a blog post I wrote last time.
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In a prison in Kodemmacho, now Chuo-ku, Yoshida Shoin wrote a will addressed to his disciples, "Rinquiry Record," and was executed the next day (Ansei's Prison). The memoir passed to the disciples became the cornerstone of the hearts of the late Tokugawa shogunate soldiers and the driving force of the Meiji Restoration, but there was a booklet on the memoir issued by Hagi Shoin Shrine in this shop, so I bought it for a trial and read it.
In Ansei's prison in late Tokugawa shogunate, Sanai Hashimoto of Fukui clansman was also executed in this prison 20 days before Shoin execution. It seems that Shoin and Sauchi did not meet, but Shoin wrote about the left in this memoir.
On the left side, even during Shinshin, he did not break his attitude to "learn from history", and read and commented on the Chinese history book "Shiji Tsukan". Shoin learned about it in prison, was impressed by his learning attitude, and lamented that he could not meet left.
As I wrote in the previous blog post, this "Shiji Tsukan" is a book that comes from the name of "Jushi Elementary School" built on the site of Kodemmacho prison. In my own imagination, those who thought about the name of this elementary school in the Meiji era wanted to entrust the "learning attitude" written in the romary record related to this land to the name of the elementary school that is the school building I guess.
With that in mind, I felt that the name "Jushi Elementary School" was a very deep name.
Yamaguchi Prefecture is also the place where poets such as Misuzu Kaneko and Chuya Nakahara were produced. Some antenna shops seem to have shops where you can experience the history and literature of the area, and some books may only be available on your travels. If you like that area, I think it's a good idea to go to the shop and find it.
The last is the antenna shop "Hokkaido Fudist" in the Yaesu Underground Shopping Center at the Yaesu Exit of Tokyo Station. Hokkaido is large, so there are many specialty products, and there are various products lined up in the store, but among them, "Konbu" is probably the famous one.
This summer vacation destination was Rishiri Island in Hokkaido.
The kelp dried there is one of the scenes of memories I saw on my trip. Depending on the production area, kelp in Hokkaido is called Rausu kelp, Hidaka kelp, Rishiri kelp, etc., but since each has its own characteristics, it seems that it is better to use it properly according to the application. November 15 was "Konbu Day", and there was also a corner at the shop, but the biggest attraction of the antenna shop is that you can touch the local specialties.
This summer, Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress visited Rishiri as the last "visit to remote islands" in the Heisei era. This Rishiri is an island, but the whole island is a big mountain. The brave figure depicted on the package of "White Lover" in famous confectionery, Hokkaido attracts many climbers.
This year, I decided to climb Mount Fuji for the first time in thirty years, and I climbed Rishiri as a practice, but since it is a beginner mountain climbing, it is quite harsh. But it was my best memory this year.
At Fuji climbing, we aim for the summit on the mountain trail called "Prince Route", but for some reason a typhoon from east to west approached and unfortunately returned at the 7th station. The course of Shimoyama was very scary, and I experienced the fear of the weather in the mountains.
This "Prince Route" is a newly built mountain trail named for the road where the Crown Prince, who is famous for mountain climbing, climbed. One era of "Heisei" is over, and the road to a new era is finally being built, but I hope that next year will be a peaceful year without disasters.
From now on, the scenery of the city will be glittering, and the last Christmas of Heisei, and Chuo-ku will reach the end of the year. In this town with many antenna shops, it's fun to look around the shop while looking back on this year. How about everyone?
●Related HP ⇒ Tokyo Chuo-ku Tourism Guide / Antenna Shop
