On August 15, the 66th anniversary of the end of the war, the midsummer sunshine shines from the morning and the cicada rain echoes from the grove, signaling the noon signal at the bell tower in Jisshi Park (NihonGreat East Japan Earthquakekodenmacho). This bell was recasted just 300 years ago, in 1711 (1711).
This bell, which was installed at Jisshi Park, is engraved with the inscription "Chukan = mid-April enema of the casting carpenter Shiina Iyo Fujiwara Shigekyu", and was cast in 1711 (1711). Was. The Kokumachi bell, which was also written by Kawayanagi, saying, "Kokucho lays or wakes up Edo," was abolished in the Meiji era, and was completed from Honishi-cho to Jisshi Park in 1930 (1930). It was relocated to a reinforced concrete bell tower.
During the Edo period, time bells were set up to inform the city of time. It seems that in the early days, he played a drum in Edo Castle to inform the time, but he was eventually moved out of the castle. The first bell is said to be the bell of Kokumachi, founded in 1626 (1626), and was placed at Honishicho 3-chome (currently around Muromachi 4-chome). At present, an explanation board for Chuo-ku is installed around the site where the bell tower was located, and the adjacent road is "Time Bell Street" (lower right in the photo: between Muromachi 3-chome and Jisshi Park).
The calendar of the Edo period was the lunar calendar, and people lived around at a time called irregular time. At the same time as the movement of the sun, the day began from sunrise to sunset. Therefore, the length of the daytime is different between the winter solstice and the summer solstice. The day was divided into 12 categories (engravings), the sunrise was set to six, and the sunset was set to six.
At the same time, the bell at the time was hitting the bell every two hours. Kokumachi is said to have been involved in the bell bell tower for generations, receiving and managing four sentences of bell towers a month from more than 400 townspeople around the area. In addition to Kokumachi, there were nine places in Edo City, including Ueno, Asakusa, Shiba, Ichitani, Honjo, or more, or bell towers that were said to be more than that.
