Nice to meet you. My name is Harumi Madam, who lives in Harumi, Chuo-ku, who has become a correspondent since April this year.
We hope that you can tell us a little about the charm of Chuo-ku, where there are greenery, rivers and seas, history and cutting-edge things and information. Thank you very much.
Well, what's the first introduction? 。 This bell. The name is "The Bell of Josephine." It is located in the garden of "Tokyo Cathedral Catholic Sekiguchi Church" in Sekiguchi, Bunkyo-ku. A little about this bell. 。 。
In 1877, just after Christianity was lifted. The cathedral was completed in Tsukiji, and two bells were transported from France across the sea. One of them is this bell. Donated by Poasode, the father of modern Japanese law, and this name was named. In fact, these two bells played a duo at the Tsukiji Church, but only Josephine was moved to Sekiguchi Church when he moved to the Great Archdiocese of Tokyo in 1920.
The other is a small bell called "Janne Louise in Edo". This is the central ward Tangible Cultural Property, which is still enshrined in the cathedral of the Catholic Tsukiji Church. Speaking of Tsukiji Church, the Greek temple Parthenon-style cathedral, built in 1927, is well worth seeing in Tangible Cultural Property.
After looking at the two bells, I will listen to them, imagining that the sound of the two bells now playing together is echoing in the sky of Tsukiji in Meiji period.
