Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

The temperature in the morning and evening has dropped a lot, and it has finally become a taste autumn.

Speaking of a town with delicious food, it is Tsukiji, a food town.

The annual “Tsukiji Autumn Festival” was held on October 12 and 13 for two days, but this year it was “Economic support with deliciousness!”, The theme was “Food Bali's“ Food Banomics ”.

One of the highlights of the event is that you can rent seven wheels at a special venue and bake and eat the ingredients you bought at Tsukiji as they are! That's why the cover of the pamphlet is unique in which the word "food" is reminiscent of the seven wheels.

Even if you know it is delicious to bake with a net, you can't easily do it at home because of smoke.

At the venue where smoke can drop in under sweaty weather, in addition to limited-time premium beer, there are sales booths of delicious Tsukiji shops such as fried eggs of Shoro, Shumai of Koken, steak of Oomiya, etc. Everyone enjoyed the taste of autumn.

On the 13th, a large line was formed at a booth where saury sent directly from Choshi was baked on the spot.

And the other procession was a booth for the "bonito-bushi-shaving" experience.

Some of the children who touched them for the first time have missed them.

It was surprising that the men were also lined up.

The "shopping tickets" sold on the day can be used at member stores of Tsukiji Outer Market, but they have a ticket worth 1,100 yen for 1,000 yen and up to a lottery ticket of Dai raffle that wins Tsukiji's famous items.

Unfortunately, I didn't win the lottery, but the remaining tickets can be used until October 31st, so I'll come back to shopping soon.

"Shimbashi" That's because it is now a place name in Minato-ku, why Chuo-ku? I think there are some people who think about it.

However, Shimbashi used to be a bridge over the Shiodome River in front of Ginza, and during the Edo period it was called Shibakuchi Bridge.

The Shiodome River was gradually reclaimed after the end of the war, but in the photo immediately after the war in my home, you can see the main pillar and a little balustrade at the right end.

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This main pillar still remains, and you can still see it diagonally in front of the Hakuhinkan in Ginza 8-chome, under the high speed in front of the entrance of the supermarket Hanamasa.

Near the place where Shimbashi was located, on the back street of Hakuhinkan, there was a Noh Kinharu-ryu mansion in the Edo period, so it is still called Kinharu-dori.

A popular female master from Jobanzu, who lived here at the end of the Tokugawa period, is often called for banquets, etc., and receives the end of the Shogunate's approval of "Kentori Gomen".

This is the beginning of the so-called "Shimbashi Geisha".

Restaurants and waiting areas are also located around Kibiki-cho (now the east side of Ginza) and around Tsukiji from this area.

Therefore, "Shimbashi Hanayagikai" is not located in Shimbashi in Minato-ku, but around the Chuo-ku side of the bridge called "Shimbashi".

And despite the fact that Shimbashi Enbujo built in 1925 is quite far from Shimbashi Station, Shimbashi is called Shimbashi because it was built to improve the arts of Shimbashi Geisha. People involved in Shimbashi Hanayagikai, such as restaurants, shops, and geisha.

From 1940, he signed a performance contract with Shochiku and became a subsidiary, but even now, the owner of the restaurant is lined up in the management team.

"East Odori", which is held for four days in May every year by Shimbashi Geisha, was once held twice a year in spring and autumn, and Yasunari Kawabata, Junichirou Tanizaki, Eiji Yoshikawa and others wrote plays, and the dance master "Mari Chiyo" seems to have been sold and a row of female students fans.

The reason for the development of Shimbashi Hanayagikai was that the people of late Tokugawa shogunate, such as Satsuma and Choshu, who became key figures of the Meiji government at the time, were still young and seemed to be innocent in the western country, and were not welcomed by Yanagibashi, which was first-class in the Edo period.

The Japanese restaurant "Shinkiraku" (Ito Hirobumi was called "Kiraku" at the time of the first landlady), which is still the venue for the famous literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize and Naoki Prize, was very pleased to send a Chinese poem to the proprietress while serving as governor of Korea.