Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

The New Year's season has been stagnant. Christmas, general cleaning and some busy days continue. How about preparing a "New Year's card" at this time when there is still a little room? Today, I would like to introduce Saruya's zodiac toothpick that is perfect for "New Year's Day".

Saruya is a member of the Toto Goodwill Association and is a long-established toothpick specialty store that was founded for more than 300 years in the first year of Hoei (1704), so I think it is necessary to introduce it, but I am familiar at the department store department store department store This is the first time I visit the store. Nihonbashikoamicho, where the shop is located, goes a little toward Ningyocho from the Edobashi intersection. A toothpick in various packages is spread day at the entrance show window in the bright store. In the back, the clerk is wrapping a lot of ordered products.

According to a guide to the shop, "Nara period and Buddhism were introduced to Japan." In the era when there was no toothbrush, he used a "total toothpick" that crushed the edges and made it look like a block. Speaking of which, one of the "Meiwa's Three Beautys" is "Yogeya Oto" behind Asakusa Kannon. A toothpick craftsman is also active as an assistant in Hatsuko Wada's popular novel series "Kuchichu Medical Keisuke Incident Book". Since the middle of the Edo period, tooth brushing with toothpicks may have spread to the common people.

The toothpick was originally applied to this character because "Yangyanagi" was mainly used as a material. It seems that the word "black letter" refers to a toothpick made of black letter trees, but it was suddenly used as toothpick = black letter. By the way, the origin of the name of the tree "black character" was "The bark of the black character tree is green black and has black spots, and it is regarded as a character and is called black characters."

Saruya's toothpick is rich in variety and gets lost. In addition to the paulownia box "Senryo Box", "Oiri", "Kumatori", and "Zodiac", there are also Tsuji occupation and familiar "black letters" and toothpicks. What I asked was the Chinese zodiac sign next year, the dragon's picture. It seems that those with zodiac signs will be lined up in stores from the beginning of November of the previous year. If you collect 12 pieces, you will have all kinds. It's a good luck and it's a little fashionable "New Year's card".

950 yen in Chinese zodiac paulownia box For details, please visit http://www.saruya.co.jp/.

Saruya: Nihonbashikoamicho, Chuo-ku 18-10 TEL3666-3906　

　 　　　Business hours 09:00 ~ 18:00 (Sunday holiday)

　　　 　Nearest station Ningyocho A5 Exit 5 minutes, Mitsukoshi-mae B6 Exit 5 minutes

 

 

The next day after watching "Genroku era Chushingura", I decided to watch "Matsuura Taiko" at Heisei Nakamuraza. A popular performance with many performances alongside "Yotsuya Kaidan" in "Gishigaiden". Matsuura's lord, who lives in the residence next to Kira Uenosuke, the head of the headquarters, was coming to Oishi built-in assistant who did not enter, but he said, "retainer is a Yamaga-style Jin Taiko!" When it is performed at Nakamuraza in Asakusa, the headquarters is close, so I'm glad that you can feel like a "local thing".

"Haiku" plays a major role in this play. At the beginning of Ryogokubashi, where snow falls, Kikaku Takarai, a teacher of haikai, accidentally encounters Gengo Otaka, a Nanji Akaho, who is selling bamboo grass. The corner, who was sorry for the pitiful appearance, gave a worshiper from Hou Matsuura, and turned his phrase, "The flow of the year, the flow of water, and the body of people," Gengo said, "The treasure ship I will wait tomorrow." Returns the phrase ". Hou Matsuura immediately understands the meaning, and at that time he hears the sound of the Jin Taiko.

It is said to have been made during the rain begging at Sankai Shrine, which is also described in the "Edo Famous Zoukai", such as "If you are a god of visiting the sunset or rice fields" and "There is no day when one bell can not be sold in Edo spring" Kikaku Takarai, who is famous as one of the Juetsu Shomon, was born in the first year of Kanbun (1661), the eldest son of the Edo clan in the Edo. At first, he gave himself the last name of his mother's surname, Enomoto, and later called Takarai. In the first year of the Enpo era (1673), he became a master of Basho and edited a collection of phrases such as "Country Hakuai", "Kaguri", and "Kareohana". After Basho's death, he promoted the flashy fashionable haikai and was called "Edoza". The residence at the corner is located near Yakushido (Chisen-in) in Minami Kayabacho, where he died (1707).

The phrase "Ume incense and next door is Ogiu Souemon" is also written in the "Edo Famous Zoukai" and says "... I will help you get close to your home." It is said that Ogiu Souemon advised Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa when deciding on the story of the Akaho incident known as Sorai Ogyu.

At the entrance of Mizuho Bank at Kayabacho Station on the Hibiya Line, there is a stone monument of "the ruins of the corner residence". The tomb is said to be at Chokeiji Temple in Morishita, Koto-ku. Since it was 350 years of birth, I wonder if there were any events? When I searched for it, it seems that there was a recruitment of commemorative Haiku last year.

As an aside, Shigenobu Matsuura (Matsura Shigenobu, this is called Matsura), which is regarded as a model of "Matsuura Taiko" (Matsuura no Taiko), is the fourth feudal lord of 63,000 stones of the Hizen Hirato Domain. As you can see in the play, you have a deep exchange with Soko Yamaga, and a cultural person who started the tea ceremony Iwami-style one-stop religion. By the way, Seizan Matsura (1760-1841), who wrote 278 volumes of "Koshi Night Story" (written anecdotes of Daimyo Hagimoto and customs of Ichii) after retirement, was the ninth generation feudal lord. A rare sword master for a daimyo and became famous as Nomura's reputation, "Winning is mysterious. Lost ... "is the word in Shizuyama's "kendan".

 

 

 

Shiwasu is the season of "Chushingura" in Kabuki. Nothing has been loved and handed down by Japanese for as long as "Chushingura" STORY.

"Kanademoto Chushingura" is the best known Kabuki Kyogen known as "Dosanyu" (notic medicine) since the performance at Kabuki in puppet ballad drama in 1748, a little later. This December, Kyoto Minamiza "Senishi Yashiki", Heisei Nakamuraza, one of the Chushingura's foreign biography "Matsuura Taiko", is being performed, and on December 14, I decided to watch three parts of "Genroku era Chushingura" in the country. (Of course, December 14, Genroku 15 (1702) is the lunar calendar.) Seika Mayama's 10 Genroku era Chushingura works were born several times since the big hit of the kana model Chushingura, but they are highly regarded as masterpieces because they are almost faithful to historical facts based on carefulChushingura's historical evidence.

Today's performances are three parts: "Edo Castle's blade wound", "Mihama Goten Tsunatoyo" and "Oishi's last day". Of these, "Mihama Goten Tsunatoyo" is Yoshiemon Tsunatoyo of Yoshiemon Nakamura and Sukeemon Tominomori of Matagoro, Kansyo Arai of Umetama, Kisei, Shiba Sparrow, Goyu-sho Eshima, Kaiharu.

This stage, "Mihama Goten", is the current Hamarikyu, and Hamarikyu is often featured in this blog, so it is not necessary to introduce it again, but Kofu feudal lord Matsudaira Tsunashige worshiped from his brother's fourth shogun Iezuna, reclaimed the sea and made it a Shimoyashiki, and Tsunashige's child, Tsunashige's child, became the Rokudai Shogun Ie Ie House. The stage was when Kofu Seiso Tsunatoyo used it as a Shimoyashiki.

The first act has just been restored this year, "Matsu no Chaya". There is a line in the play that "Odaisho is in a teahouse in Nakanoshima", but it is said that both teahouses were established in the 11th Ienari.

This Tsunataka later became the sixth shogun Ienobu, and the concubine Kisei became the concubine Tsukikoin, the son after the death of Ienobu was the seventh shogun Ietsu, and Gosuke Eshima became the Ooku Oyoro Eshima 12 years later, that "Eshima Ikushima" incident (1714) will occur.

The Eshima and Ooku women who caused this incident were invited to Yamamura-za, one of the "Goto" kimono merchant Goto Sodensuke, who was the origin of the name of Ichiishibashi. On January 12, the Shogunate's Sata came out on March 5, and Goto Sekimon in Kibori-cho was closed. The residence of Goto Seidensuke was located in Edo Gofukumachi on the south side of Ichiishibashi, but the Goto family, a kimono merchant, seems to have continued until around late Tokugawa shogunate.

"Eshima Ikushima" was a dance drama by Shigure Hasegawa in the Meiji era, entered the Showa era, and "Ejima Ikushima", a novel by Shoichi Funahashi in the Meiji era, entered the Showa era, and converted a novel by Shoichi Funahashi into Kabuki. Is known. (Details are unknown because they haven't seen it because they haven't performed much.) Many people may have seen it as a TV drama.

The National Theater presents an old map of the place that appears in the Genroku era Chushingura, which is being performed this month, as the "land of connection". It's a very good idea.

 

 

The arrival "Ruretto" was delicious, so I visited the shop. It is the first floor of the building where the Hatchobori Post Office is located about 5 minutes from Hatchobori Station. Next door is a flower shop.

It's just lunchtime, so men and women who seem to be working in the neighborhood enter constantly. "I too ..." There is a scent of freshly baked cakes and bread in the small shop. First of all, 1,000 yen for 5 pieces in the "Ruretto" box and 1,050 yen for 6 roses. There are many kinds of cake and bread. When I was wandering around with one tong in my hand, I was told to a shop that felt like a bread shop, "It's also here." A little older shop, "delicious" aura is rising from all over the body. We decided to give bread together at the place we visited, and we had walnuts, blueberry bagels, and raisin rolls. I had a lot of trouble before I decided, but I can't do it at once.

"Ruretto ROULETTE is a cute car in French (which also means a game roulette), a crisp texture and a rich taste, carefully baked one by one. We do not use preservatives, additives, etc. "As you can see in the guide of the shop, it is a pie that feels nostalgic with a firm texture that is a bit different from the fashionable Western confectionery that gives priority to appearance. "When the company was founded in 1960, the city was surrounded by Horikawa, and a mulled fish called a success fish was swimming in a flock, and I often fished and played. However, four years later, most Horikawa was dried up in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics and Horikawa turned into the capital city ... "As stated on the website, Hatchobori, which has now become a business district, disappeared, but the taste of the tradition that has been made for more than 50 years seems to be increasing the number of fans. (I have increased by one person today.)

I thought it would be good for "New Year's cards", and when I asked, it would be sold out every year, so it was recommended to make an early reservation.

confectionary BROWN: 2-9-1 Hatchobori, Chuo-ku Hidekazu Azuma Yaesu Building 1F TEL3551-1689　

Business hours 8:00 ~ 18:30 Closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (open in December)