Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

It's rosemary sea, covering "gifts and I enjoy myself" with visitors.

This time, I would like to touch on the history of Bunmeido Nihonbashi Main Store.

It is introduced in two parts: "Castella and Bunmeido" and "Bunmeido History Chronicle".

This time, I was also taken care of by the manager of the Hoshino head office of Bunmeido Tokyo Nihonbashi Main Store Co., Ltd.

Then...

(At the Embassy of Japan in Spain, the master of civilization and Ambassador Francis Cocaste Rio)

Castella and Mr. Bunmeido

Castella was introduced to the Spanish "Sweets of the Kingdom of Castilian" and was introduced to Nagasaki, which was thriving as a port of Nanban trade in the 16th century.

Bunmeido was founded in Nagasaki, Kyushu in 1900.

As you all know, Nagasaki prospered as the only trading port with Western Europe during the Edo period when Japan was isolated.

Bunmeido spread castella grown in Nagasaki from Portugal, Spain, as Japanese sweets.

Confectionery made with scrutinized materials and the skills of skilled craftsmen.

Mr. Bunmeido will deliver the deliciousness created from it with sincerity.

It is Bunmeido's desire to add color to the moment of relaxation, which has been handed down since its founding.

Everything is for the customer's smile. I will continue to do this.

(Nihonbashi Main Store Scenery around 1951)

Bunmeido's History Chronicle

[Astronomy Year]

Castella was introduced to Nagasaki by a Portuguese ship from Spain.

1900 (Meiji 33)

Goro Nakagawayasu founded Bunmeido in Maruyama-cho, Nagasaki.

[1914 (Daisho 3)]

At the Taisho Expo held in Tokyo, we will conduct demonstration sales of castella business trips.

[1922 (Daisho 11)]

Jinzaemon Miyazaki, the younger brother of Angoro, advanced to Tokyo. Opened the first store in Tokyo in Kuromoncho. This is the foundation of Tokyo Civilization Hall.

[1923 (Daisho 12)]

Stores burned down due to the Great Kanto Earthquake. I temporarily returned to Nagasaki, but I moved to Tokyo again and opened a store in Azabu Tansumachi.

In the same year, an electric kettle was developed to replace charcoal pots and gas pots.

[1924 (Daisho 13)]

In addition to the first castella demonstration in Japan, a 20% increase in castella, so-called "omake" will be started.

[1925 (Daisho 14)]

The Imperial Household Ministry and the present Imperial Household Agency's purveyors.

1935 (Showa 10)

He advertises the entire back cover of the telephone directory, saying, "Castella's first, telephone number second."

1941 (Showa 16)

Omake was canceled due to shortage of supplies.

1945 (Showa 20)

The store was destroyed by the Great Tokyo Air Raid.

1950 (Showa 25)

Production of castella and demonstration sales of Mt. Mikasa resumed.

1957 (Showa 32)

TV commercial starts.

"♪ Castella No. 1, the phone number 2 and the snack at 3 o'clock is Bunmeido. Castella No. 1, the phone number 2, the snack at 3 o'clock is Bunmeido ♪ "

2000 (Heisei 12)

It celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bunmeido.

[2013 (Heisei 25)]

Bunmeido Nihonbashi Main Store, reopening.

It's up to the present.

Bunmeido Nihonbashi Main Store

1-13-7, Nihonbashimuromachi

０３－３２４１－０００２

No holiday

Business hours Weekdays 9:30 to 19:00

　　　　Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 10:00 to 19:00

Walk on the right side of Edo Sakura-dori St., between COREDO Muromachi 1 and COREDO Muromachi 3 at the corner where Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi's lion statue is located, opposite the building of COREDO Muromachi 2 cuts.

Click here for the website of Mr.

⇒　　http://www.bunmeido.co.jp　

It is a topic that has just changed the year and is too early, but it is an introduction of the end-of-year purchase at Tsukiji Outer Market. It seems that there are many people who want to go but do not understand well, so it is easy, but we will deliver the situation of the site and how to enjoy it.

The date is 12/30. There are plenty of items on sale, from seafood, meat, seaweed, roast beef, kejan and chestnut kinton, a restaurant purveyor to daily necessities. Each store opens around 5 o'clock in the morning, so you can move quickly if you go out of the hall just before and grab the intuition of each street while wandering around. The actual outside is not so big. There are a lot of shops there.

It is very crowded after the sun rises, so we recommend the time from early morning to sunrise. You don't have to worry about selling out. Also, there is a mysterious uplift that a large number of people are on the market during this time. It's fun to come to Yokai's night market. There is a parking lot, but it's congested, so it might be better to leave to get there early or ask a driver.

In addition to the purchase, there are also pleasures of eat-in. There are a wide variety of things such as Kuansu sushi and ramen at dawn. The complex Tsukiji Fish Bank Restaurant Floor is open at 7:00 in the morning. There is also a delicious shop here!

Every egg-yaki shop is a large line of prosperity, but there are shops that can be bought early in the morning even if you don't make a reservation. It takes about 10 to 20 minutes to line up. As expected, the shop is also quick! The 100 yen egg skewers are sold normally.

At present, the hall is completely closed and cannot be entered. Until last year, I was free to enter and exit, and I was able to see the sunrise rising to Tokyo Bay from the hall.

It is not recommended for those who are not good at crowded places because there are many crowds, but if you go early, you can enjoy watching around without stress. After shopping, I think it would be refreshing to go home after watching the sunrise rising at Namiki Inari Shrine, Kachidokibashi, Tsukiji Honganji, etc.

As mentioned above, it was a simple and rush, but it was an introduction of the year-end purchase at Tsukiji Outer Market. Please come and visit us at the end of 2019. It's fun!

The official website of Tsukiji Outer Market is available. → Here。

This is a rosemary sea, which covers "gifts and enjoy yourself" as a task.

Bunmeido Nihonbashi Main Store, "Spring ahead" Strawberry Fair "is being held.

Please enjoy the taste of the synergistic effect of strawberries and castella created by Bunmeido Tokyo.

As it is a seasonal product, please come as soon as possible.

This time, I was also taken care of by the manager of the Hoshino head office of Bunmeido Tokyo Nihonbashi Main Store Co., Ltd.

Then, I would like to introduce 4 kinds of strawberries. All prices are tax-included.

Strawberry castella 5 cuts 675 yen

Castella baked with strawberry freeze-dried with a slightly sweet scent.

It's a cute pink outfit that makes you look forward to spring.

Strawberry 119 yen per piece

Castella baked with strawberry puree is wrapped in dorayaki dough.

Ichigo Mikasa 173 yen per piece

Sweet and sour strawberry bean paste is sandwiched between soft dorayaki dough.

Strawberry cream busses 130 yen per piece

Strawberry cream with moderate acidity is sandwiched between the busse dough.

・・・ In addition to these strawberry-related products, we will also introduce two items.

　　　Items that have not been introduced yet, that is ...

　　　"Ginsho" and "Bamkuchen" are "Specially Selected Honey Kasterra Ginsho".

Specially selected Honey Kasutera Ginsho

Left: 0.5K 1,620 yen　　

Right: No. 1B (in paulownia box) 3,240 yen　

Unique blending with egg luxuriously, exquisite heat adjustment.

It is a light mouthfeel castella baked by skilled craftsmen into fine dough one by one.

It seems to be the softest castella among Bunmeido's castella.

If you taste this texture, it is such a gem that the common sense of castella may be overturned.

Please take this product by cutting it into your preferred size.

Assortment of Ginsho 53 Castella　

Left: No. 1 (in paulownia box) 3,780 yen

Right: No. 2 (in paulownia box) 6,480 yen

4,644 yen assemble No. 1 (in paulownia box) assemble 1

Baumkuchen

Upper left image: 1,242 yen per 5 pieces left in the upper right image: 2,376 yen per 10 pieces Right in the upper right image: 3,564 yen for 15 pieces

Craftsmen bake more carefully the dough that uses fermented butter with a good flavor.

Rich, moist and soft mouthfeel in shape reminiscent of age of tree.

Bunmeido's Baumkuchen is a popular standard item for both snacks and gifts.

Bunmeido Nihonbashi Main Store

1-13-7, Nihonbashimuromachi

０３－３２４１－０００２

No holiday

Business hours Weekdays 9:30 to 19:00

　　　　　　Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 10:00 to 19:00

Walk on the right side of Edo Sakura-dori St., between COREDO Muromachi 1 and COREDO Muromachi 3 at the corner where Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi's lion statue is located, opposite the building of COREDO Muromachi 2 cuts.

Click here for the website of Mr.

⇒　　http://www.bunmeido.co.jp

Cross Tsukiji Ohashi from the left bank and from the middle, you can see Hamarikyu on your right when you look at the Sumida River. The distant view of Hamarikyu, which can not be seen from Kachidokibashi or from the boat.

I just heard the whistle of the pleasure boat entering the departure and arrival point of Hamarikyu.

As you proceed along the Tsukiji Ohashi Bridge, you can see the departure and arrival point across the canal as if you were picked up.

You can do it. There is a fun conversation among many tourists who get off from here.

English, Chinese, and Cantonese are especially louder than Japanese, and the bustle of the departure and arrival areas.

It's even more gorgeous.

To get to Tsukiji Ohashi, get off at Kachidoki Station on the Toei Oedo Line and walk 10 minutes.

Toei buses go from the south exit of Marunouchi, Tokyo Station bound for Toyomi Fisheries Pier.

　　　　　　From Kameido Station to Tsukishima Station, bound for Toyomi Fisheries Pier

　　　　　　　　Both are a 5-minute walk from Niijima Bridge.

＊It is also recommended to match the departure and arrival times of Hamarikyu on the Tokyo Cruise of Tokyo Kanko Kisen*.

Please note that is careful, and Hamarikyu is not seen from the sidewalk of the upper reaches.

It is rosemary sea, which decides on a substance of "gifts and enjoys myself".

From Tuesday, January 8 to January 31 (Thursday), "Hand-painted Yuzen dyeing Sachi Manabe Exhibition" is being held at Gallery izutuki, which is attached to the long-established knife shop Nihonbashi Kiya Main Store.

(Mr. Manabe, earrings are also from my own work series.)

Sachi Manabe is a hand-painted Yuzen dyeing writer. Born in Aichi Prefecture.

After graduating from the Faculty of Letters at Ritsumeikan University in 2007, he studied under Yuzen dyeing writer Kihachiro Yoshida, a regular member of the Japan Kogei Association, and studied hand-drawn Yuzen dyeing.

With the aim of integrating fashion and visual art, he has created works that combine the functions of "watching, wearing, and decorating".

This time, it was awarded the 2011 Japan Craft Newcomer Encouragement Award for the men's fashionable wear "Kemonode" displayed in the center of the exhibition.

On the day of the exhibition, I was able to meet Mr. Sachi Manabe at the venue.

I introduced the state of the exhibition on the 12th, and at that time, I also interviewed.

This is an interview article. I will show you a lot of valuable words right away.

"All the furoshiki and tiles were made based on the kimonos displayed in the center."

Have you ever been troubled by your style before?

"After I quit my teacher, there was a time when I was wondering whether to continue, but I would like to continue Yuzen dyeing.

The main axis is kimonos such as kimonos and obis, but we have to take on various challenges from there. The world of crafts is also becoming a shayo industry, so for example, trying to do a "tertiary collaboration".

I'm doing traditional crafts in Kyoto, and since I'm from Tajimi tiles, I'm from Aichi Prefecture, I want to collaborate with local technology.

So, in such tiles and embroidery races, there are not many places that have machines that can be embroidered in Isesaki and Kiryu in Gunma Prefecture, and businesses that accept that I want to do it in small lots Search. I visited Gunma last November. (I live in Kyoto) It was far from thought. It took an hour and a half to get on the Shinkansen from Tokyo. That's the end of the day."

- Have you changed your style from the teacher Takumi (Kihachiro Yoshida)?

"Yes. After all, after quitting, this work (Kemonode kimono) is a turning point, but on the contrary, I shake it and think about whether I want to make it more and more. Otherwise, it would be the second decoction of the teacher for a long time, and it would feel degraded. I have to find my style, so I still get along (with my teacher) and have something I don't understand (tell me) or "I'm going to do my best?" (Laughs). "

When I was a college student, I first decided to work in a friend's workshop and went to a workshop in Yuzen dyeing.

"There was a workshop on hand-painted yuzen that was being conducted by the government. It was about 20,000 yen for a course of about three months, but I really wanted to take it.

When I wanted to receive it was that the door wasn't open at all, and that I had to be a member of the association.

Various craftsmen can come, such as kimono-related people other than Yuzen dyeing, but I was told that if I wanted to go as an ordinary university student, I wouldn't do it.

　Anyway, I was wondering if there was any hand, so I decided to work part-time at a friend (no workshop), and there I took a training course for three months.

(of course) When I came to the end, I was told that something was wrong, and I said, "Actual." Even now, the group is continuing. I also have an exhibition.

But now anyone can take that course."

ーーYou're a pioneer.

"No, it's totally wild. I wish I could live a little more strategically. That's right.

Last year, I did it at a midtown shop (Kiya-san's) and said that tiles were unusual, but they sold a little bit.

If so, at the main store (Kiya-san Nihonbashi), there are cooking utensils, and I think it's good."

Does the feeling of the color of the tile change before and after baking?

"Actually, kimonos are completely different. It's quite different.

In the fixation of color, there is a process called "steaming", where the color changes. There's something to change.

As for this tile, I made a glaze seal to make it as close as possible and reproduce it with it.

For pottery, there is a good color.

The rest is the texture. One version of each color is made using the necessary technique, so I make a glaze seal, but I need one version of red, blue, and gradation. I'm going to make this sticker by repeating the plates. It's like sticking it to the tile fabric and baking it.

So there is a pattern to the side of the tile. Usually, tiles are just a picture above.

Compared to inkjets, it has a soft texture and is not too smooth."

The craftsman puts a sticker and bakes it.

ーThe pattern of the kimono bird of this kemonode is impressive.

"This comes from" Sarasa (Sarasa: pattern dyeing from India origin) ".

Just across the Silk Road, the image of animals with such good luck patterns (Kishomonyo: a pattern depicting animals and plants that are said to have good luck) came into Japan across the sea. Because I'm drawing with it.

This work itself is not for sale."

ーYou were also making wedding costumes.

I've made a batting. There's also furisode.

"Recently, I've been doing Takara Jenne's bromide or something (the costume)."

ーHow long does it take to create small items?

"Even accessories are dyed, dried, fixed, pressed, assembled again, glue, and dried again.

It's about a week. It takes a long time to dry.

I have to dry the color. The color when we get wet is quite different. I wonder if I'll dye it again.

There's also such an adjustment."

"The" color of YUZEN " series is a series that uses silk fabric and is the first accessory to start."

"tint (Tint:" light shade "or" dyeing ") series" wants to "watch" the color more lightly. So the motif part is outsourced, and let's use the lace.

That's why I changed to a series called tint.

It is made with the luster of silk as a gemstone."

・・Thank you very much, Sachi Manabe.

Click here for the website of Sachi Manabe.

⇒　　http://www.manabesachi.com/

In addition, Kiya Nihonbashi Main Store is holding a "Year-end Thanksgiving Sale" from Saturday, January 12 to February 3 (Sun).

Not only cooking tools such as kitchen knives, cutting boards, and imported pots, but also iron bottles are also bargains.

We look forward to your visit with Sachi Manabe's exhibition.

Nihonbashi Kiya

2-2-1 Nihonbashi COREDO Muromachi 1st floor

Exit A6 of Mitsukoshimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line and Ginza Line.

０３－３２４１－０１１０

Business hours 10:00 to 20:00

It's open except New Year's Day.

Click here for Kiya's website.

⇒　http://www.kiya-hamono.co.jp/