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At the Edo Tokyo Museum, a special exhibition "Chushingura saw by Hagimoto-The Trajectory of Wakasano Asano Family Three thousand stones" is now being held. Wakasano, Ako-gun, Harima, owned by Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture, is owned by the Tatsuno History and Culture Museum in Hyogo Prefecture. Materials from Wakasano, Aioi City, Hyogo Prefecture) and Wakasano Asano family are on display. The flagship family is a branch of the Ako Asano family, and is related to Oishi built-in assistant, responsible for the processing after the Akaho incident, and took over the documents of the head family. These recently found materials are the highlights. (The photo shows the entrance of the venue. The exhibition will be held until February 7. 

One of the highlights of the exhibition is the newly discovered Ako Asano family's "Tenbosu Kamiyashiki pictorial map". At present, there is an explanation board and a monument to Takumi Asanouchi's residence (Designated Cultural Property, Tokyo) beside the St. Luke's College of Nursing in Akashicho.

Until now, there was a site map, but the inside of the site was unknown. It has been revealed for the first time now more than 300 years since the renovation.

If you put this mansion picture in front of you at the venue, you will be able to see it in size and detail. 

According to a commentary at the related forum of the exhibition (held on December 12), this picture is 2.32m horizontal (south-south) x 1.44m vertical (east-west). Colored paper in the shape of a building etc. is pasted on the mount and is called "paste picture". The scale is accurate, about 1/100, and features detailed description and careful finish. The date of creation is from 1681 (1681) to 1701 (1701), between site reduction and renovation. The 4th generation feudal lord Asanouchi Takunori and his wife Akuri lived in the palace. The site tsubo is 8,794 tsubo (approximately 30,000 m2), which looks like a picture when it was reduced to about half of the original. Therefore, the Baba is as short as about 50 spaces (90m). It is said that the appearance before the Akaho incident can be read, such as the fact that there are two "stages" performing Noh. 

While comparing this mansion picture with the current site, there is a moat on the west side (currently Tsukiji River Park), and was there a front gate, the face of the mansion, around here? On the south side (now St. Luke Street), there is a digging, and you can think about whether it was a landing place or a loading place with a bamboo fence fence. In addition, related materials are on display, and it is a special exhibition that can not be overlooked by interested people.

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The remnants of "Inaribashi" (pictured above) is located on "Tetsugunsu-dori" connecting Hatchobori and Minato districts. The name of the bridge is derived from the fact that there was Tepposu Inari Shrine. It is said that around 1624 (1624), he moved to the east side of the bridge's Minamizume and moved to his current location in 1868 (1868). The shrine is designated as a cultural property and building of the central ward.

This is where Horikawa's "Hatchobori" was flowing. The distance from the Kamejima River to the Kyobashi River node was Hatchobori (approximately 870m), so it is said to be Hatchobori, but this Inari Bridge was the first bridge at the mouth of the mouth that poured into the Kamejima River. In the Meiji period, Hatchobori changed its name to "Sakuragawa". This area has been reclaimed, but it is still a place where you can feel the terrain like Funairi.

This bridge is also depicted in the Edo map of the Shoo era in 1653 (1653), so when the Akaho Nanji was repatriated in the Genroku era, did you cross the Inari Bridge from Eitai Bridge via Takahashi? . It is also said that Kana Heizo Hasegawa lived around the east side of the current gunpowder Inari.

Looking at the "Hundred Views of Edo" Tepposu Inaribashi Minato Shrine "(pictured below) in Hiroshige Utagawa, where Kyobashi and Ogamachi were the end, the scenery of the Ansei period is clearly reflected. Inari Bridge is drawn between two sail pillars, which may belong to a large ship anchored on the Kamejima River in the foreground, and on the left (south) there is Inari Shrine surrounded by red-painted fences. He was also revered as the god of maritime protection of water owners. Ships up and down carry cargo. You can see Sacred Peak Fuji in the far west. The old bustle of the Hatchobori estuary is photographed.

The southern side of Inaribashi was once called Minami Hatchobori. In the "Edo Famous Zoukai", it is written in the article "Minato Inari no Sha" as "North-South Hatchobori's Ubusuna". Kiyokata Kaburagi entered Suzuki School in Minami Hatchobori in 1884 and studied.

In the 1940s, Sakuragawa (former Hatchobori) was gradually reclaimed, and five bridges, including the Inari Bridge, disappeared from history. Is this "Inaribashi" bridge name mark just before landfill? The area near this bridge is Hatchobori, Minatomachi (Minato) and Irifune-cho (Irifune), etc., indicating that the names and names of towns used to be the waterside of Edo Minato. After the war, it is remembered that rowing shops and boating shops lined the eaves.