Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Edo Rakugo ... According to the theory, at the end of Kansei (1798-1800), Sanyutei Karaku held the first vaudeville performance at Edo Asakusa Yanagi Inari Shrine, the beginning of a professional rakugo artist in Edo vaudeville. The first generation Ensei, the first Masei, the first generation Shozo, and the first generation Sobashi are the leading figures. At the end of Bunsei (1829), there were 125 vaudeville seats, and Edo rakugo was established during this period, and nearly 400 seats were reached during the Ansei period (1854-60). The number of vaudevilles in the Meiji Taisho era exceeded 100, and the number of vaudevilles after the war decreased, but "Radio broadcast", "TV broadcast", "Hall rakugo", "CD conversion" ... In the Showa era, the listening style changed and rakugo improved. (Susumu Yamamoto, Rakugo Handbook, from the Golden Age of Rakugo)

Currently, there are only four rakugo fixed seats in Tokyo, but the rakugo boom of "someone's rakugo society tomorrow" continues, such as halls, ward halls, company rental seats, restaurants, etc. Rakugo flows today from Ningyocho Shopping Street "Karakuri Ogura" [3].

In Chuo-ku, there are many places, mainly in hall rakugo, and "Edo no Kaze" (Shiraku Rakugo Evolution theory), which Mr. Danshi calls, is blowing.　

This is an introduction of the Rakugo venue I went to listen to.

• Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi Main Store [1] Mitsukoshi Theater "Mitsukoshi Rakugokai and other special planning rakugokai" ... Started in April 1953, it will celebrate 591 times without breaking the style at that time. On May 26th, the second floor seat, in the luxurious and heavy interior, the stage was "Santaka" and "Dad god" of birds.
• Honmachi "Edo Nihonbashi-tei-Nagatani" (Rakugo Arts Council regular seat, Tachikawa-ryu Nihonbashi-tei, Young Rakugokai) [2]
• Nihonbashi Public Hall (Nihonbashi Theater) in oyster shell town　　　●Nihonbashi Social Education Hall, Ningyocho
• Ginza "Hakujinkan Theater"　　　●Ginza "Ginza Blossom Central Hall"
• Tsukiji Honganji [4] Buddyst Hall (Honganji Rakugokai, Children's Yoseki) ... 41 times Raku Morning solo performance on May 17 [5] (Minist of Medicine but last year hit) Health Rakugo and Sugimori Shrine It was the oral performance of "Yakuya no Tomi".

　　1 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store and Mitsukoshi Theater

　　　2 Edo Nihonbashi-tei

　 3 Ningyocho Shopping Street "Karakuri Ogura"

　　4 Tsukiji Honganji Temple　　　　　　5 Budist hole　　

During Golden Week, I took a picture of Tsukuda, Tsukishima, and Ginza from Sky Tree Floor 450.

You can see a new city in the skyscrapers around the Sumida River, which wraps the history and flows gently, and the skyscrapers around the mouth of the river.↓

It is the Sumida River from the "Messenger Statue" built in the central balcony of Chuo-ohashi Bridge, an X-shaped diagonal bridge that opened in 1993.

On the right hand side of Children's Day, you can see the Sky Tree at a height of 634m above the ground near Monzennakacho and far away from Eitai Bridge upstream.↓

This is the Sumida River from Hashigami of "Eitai Bridge", which was built in Genroku 11 (1698) and completed in 1698 (1698).

The skyscrapers of Tsukuda on the left, a sightseeing steamer passing down Chuo-ohashi Bridge, and the right is the Sumida River Terrace in Shinkawa.↓

It is a view of the Sumida River where you can see Eitai Bridge from Toyomi Bridge, a painted steel bridge that is rare in Japan.↓

In the explanation version of Minamizume of Toyomi Bridge, a sentence of Kafu Nagai's Chokutei Nijo "...The view overlooking Eitai Bridge and the lights on the Sagacho area diagonally from between the Toyomi Bridge steel frames..."

I refer to it.

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