Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Hatchobori Jizobashi was a landmark of Hatchobori Yoriki Doshin-gumi mansion in magistrate's office. Located almost in the center of the place of worship, the digging (large sewage) from the Kamejima River to the west (large sewage) was bent at right angle to the south at Jizo Bridge (top left = cut-out red circle). The current location is Nihonbashi Kayabacho 2-chome and 3-chome, near the intersection of Sakura-dori St. and Suzuran-dori.

Near this area, names such as Kamono Mabuchi Monjin Enao Kato and Chikage father and son and Harumi Murata are on the old map. It is said that there was also the home of Jurobe Saito, a Noh actor of the Awa clan, and it was a mysterious ukiyo-e artist, Sharaku Toshusai. Hatchobori's Seven Wonders are also referred to as "Jizobashi in hell" and "Jizobashi without Jizo statue".

late Tokugawa shogunate's power, Osahiro Sakuma (1839-1923, Taneaki Hara's older brother) wrote the following in the Kaei era diary. "There was a stone bridge in the house. It was a stone bridge that was built by himself in front of the former Yoriki, Jinzo Taga, and was called "Nizo Bridge", but after the house was crushed, it was shared and renamed "Jizo Bridge" . In the past, there was a small stone storehouse at the time of the bridge, but it was burned down due to a large fire."

The map of 1907 (1907) shows a culvert-like sign, so it seems that the bridge has already been removed. Kafu Nagai "Shokutei Nijo" In the article of 1935 (1935), "In recent years, a culvert in the city ... near Hatchobori Jizo Bridge".

This Jizo Bridge and the temple related to the temple.Mita, Minato-kuIt's true. At Gyokuhoji Temple in Gohayama, Soto sect, it is on the way up the ghost slope (left photo: view from Sakagami) from Uyokan Sakashita on National Route 1. Like Sakana, there are still temples around it, and it is a narrow road with steep slopes. On the left side of the mountain gate is the Jizo-do hall (lower right photo), which enshrines the makeup extension Jizo of Minato-ku folk cultural properties, commonly known as "Oshiroi Jizo" (upper right photo). When you enter the hall, you will have a sweet and relaxing scent, and a white-painted Jizo is enshrined. In the dedication book, women's serious (?) "I want to be clean up anything ..." There was a writing.

The temple was founded in Hatchobori in 1599 (1599), and was relocated in 1635 (1635) because Mita was designated as Teramachi due to the expansion of Edo Castle. The Jizo, enshrined in Jizo-do hall on the left side of the mountain gate, was abandoned in thetemple lore during the Kanei era before the temple was relocated, and was restored by the priest, Munekazu Okina, who was then rehabilitated and worshiped with white powder. Even now, there are worshipers who paint white powder to pray for the healing of illness, and the religion continues.