Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Speaking of the only sumo room in Chuo-ku, "Arashio Room". It is located near Kiyomasa Koji Temple, Hamacho Park. At this time of December, he goes around kindergartens in Chuo-ku to make rice cakes. rice cake making has been in public kindergartens at Akashi Kindergarten, Tsukishima Kindergarten, and Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten since 2007 (there are no private kindergartens in Chuo-ku). It's amazing. It is a valuable experience opportunity for children to have the sumo wrestlers make rice cakes and touch each other. It is wonderful that "Arashio Room" is actively playing an active part in the community so that sumo, which is a traditional Japanese sport, can be popular with infants.

　

<Arashio Room>

　

●Master Eiji Suzuki

Born in Horinouchi-machi, Kita-Uonuma-gun, Niigata Prefecture (currently Horinouchi, Uonuma-shi)

Takashi Arashio　

In June 2002, he became independent from the Tokitsukaze room, and handed down sumo wrestling and training disciples (special attention is paid to basic works such as four-legged, top, and slipped, and provides detailed guidance tailored to each individual).

●Address: 2-47-2 Nihonbashi-Hamacho 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0007

●Introduction of wrestlers in the Arashio room

1. Sokoku Raikichi

   The head of the Arashio room, Sokokurai, came from Inner Mongolia, China on June 28, 2003.

   Overcoming the injury, it took four years from the first ring and finally settled at the top of the Makushita. Then, in November 2009, he finally won the position of Sekitori, and after that, he won four consecutive places, and in September 2010, successfully completed the new curtain. Please take a close look at how far you are going.

   • Official website:　Sokokurai.net
   • Real name:　Entfsin (new on Japanese map cloth)
   • Born:　Right flag of Birin, Akmine City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
   • Birthday:　January 9, 1984 (Showa 59)
   • First ring:　September 2003 Place
   • Highest:　Front head
   • Height and weight:　186.0cm・134kg
   • Nickname:　Mr. Sekitori, Mr. En, Enku
   • History of four-legged names:　Eikichi Sokokurai (September 2003-November 2006), Eikichi Sokoku (January 2007-)

   4-legged name	Highest level	Place of origin	Birthday	First ring
   A blunder	Front head 2nd sheet	China Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region	1984 January 9	2003 September Place
   The power of fortune	Makushita 5th sheet	Fukushima Fukushima-shi	1988 March 2	2005 November Place
   Kanryu	The third dan 41st sheet	Tochigi Oyama-shi	1992 April 18	2008 March location
   Protruding power	The third dan 62nd sheet	Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi	1986 February 17	2008 November Place
   Atsushiyama	Makushita 28th sheet	Kanagawa Yokohama-shi	1994 March 11	2009 September Place
   Hirose	The third dan 61st sheet	Tokushima Tokushima-shi	1988 October 18	2009 September Place
   Wakatakamoto	Makushita 11th sheet	Fukushima Fukushima-shi	1991 December 29	2009 November Place
   Motoharu Waka	Makushita 5th sheet	Fukushima Fukushima-shi	1993 October 5	2011 November Place
   Hidano	The third dan 70th sheet	Toyama Toyama-shi	1990 September 14	2011 November Place
   Tsunekawa	The third dan 56th sheet	Toyama Nanto-shi	1994 October 17	2013 March location
   Wataya	The second stage 61st sheet	Ishikawa Komatsu-shi	1999 July 7	2015 May Place
   Takakage Waka	Makushita 12th sheet	Fukushima Fukushima-shi	1994 December 6	2017 March location
   Kazuki Shikimori	Makushita Gyoji	Osaka Katano-shi	1987 August 12	2005 March location
   Floor light	Fifth class Tokoyama	Fukushima Aizuwakamatsu-shi	1995 August 13	2013 November Place

   If you have any inquiries about the lesson tour, please call us the evening before.

   In the Arashio room, you can freely observe the training every morning. When you pass near you, the window of the rehearsal hall is also large, so please take a look at it.

(* The above has been reprinted from the website with the permission of the Arashio room.)

　

　

Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten Mochitsuki Party We interviewed on December 19, 2017.

　

The senior group sharpened 15 go of glutinous rice from the day before mochi.

"It's white than usual rice! It's round! "I'm interested in the shape and color of the rice. It seems that some children have practiced rice sharpening at home. Looking at the sharpening juice, "It's like a Calpis! Hold it tightly and sharpen it. " Now I'm ready for rice cake making tomorrow! "The smell of rice cakes has come," and expectations for rice cake making tomorrow seem to have expanded greatly. rice cake making rice cake is about 8 hours new rice, so it is important to soak it in water from the day before.

Steamed rice cake crushed. The rice at the edge of the mortar is carefully crushed so that the mochi rice does not jump out with a pestle. rice cake making, the professional skill that makes rice cakes every year is amazing. I lift the pestle lightly, but when I experience it, it's heavy.

　

Well, let's make rice cakes. In the order of the younger group, the middle group, and the older group!

This is rice cake making for the first time when a younger group entered kindergarten. Because the pestle is heavy, I was able to have Pettan Pettan rice cake making with the support of a sumo wrestler. After this, he continued with the middle and senior groups, but when he grew up, he had a punch with his own power. The energetic shout of "Yoisho Yoisho" was also echoing throughout the schoolyard.

　

Look at making kagami mochi-It's a big mirror rice cake to decorate in kindergarten!

Seiichi Ando, an 88-year-old living in Nihonbashihamacho, made a mirror rice cake. Mr. Ando has been doing a Japanese confectionery shop called "Harugetsudo" for a long time in Nihonbashihamacho. By the time the shop was closed, confections were delivered to elementary schools and kindergartens in the city. Even after closing, I have come to the local Arima Kindergarten and Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten every year to make kagami mochi. The kagami mochi made by Mr. Ando seems to have formed a round round and round shape with the wind of a small fan while the rice cake was hot, and a beautiful semicircular kagami mochi was created in no time. Indeed, the expression of God's work was perfect.

　

Mr. Ando taught me how to make mini kagami mochikagami mochi.

Finally, I took on the challenge of making my kagami mochi - it was my first experience, but the mini kagami mochi that can be displayed in my house during New Year's Day.

"It's difficult to make it round" "Is this okay?" The teacher in charge said, "I heard Mr. Ando's story well." Hot rice cakes became cold and hardened quickly. When it becomes hard, it struggles with rice cakes that can no longer be fixed. However, when the mirror rice cake was completed, the face was full of smiles with a sense of accomplishment. I'm a senior group of first graders soon.

Play with a sumo wrestler. The younger group, "Hokkeyo-no-ko,"

Only 3 years old. It's special. "It's expensive! High!"

"It's expensive! It's a great pleasure to ask you! What kind of world was reflected in the children's eyes?‼

I'm eating the rice cake I've been waiting for. You are chewing and eating well. Did you know that freshly-made mochi doesn't clog your throat? Mochi on a machine has a great risk of clogging the throat, but I learned from Ando that the mochi on a pestle is OK.

　

Have a lot of hungry sumo wrestlers!

Thank you very much from 9 to 12 o'clock. I've always been helping the PTA people from rice cake making to clean up. He's a big sumo wrestler. The freshly made rice cake is delicious. The rice cakes were gone in no time.

　

It is a rice cake making event that can only be realized through the great cooperation of parents, led by PTA officers. I had been carefully prepared for this day several months ago. After all, hard for cute children. The day before, I washed rice cakes and prepared early in the morning. This year, not only mothers but also fathers came to help four people. rice cake making has a lot of hard work, so it's better to have more manpower. The operation of the rice cake making party is very difficult. Even after the rice cake making meeting ends, it will take a few days to clear the mortar. We also pay attention to the maintenance of delicate mortars. Surely the smiles of today's children will blow away the tiredness of PTA officers and parents.‼

　

Mothers and dads are busy in the home economics room of elementary school and kindergarten staff room, steaming rice cakes.

Mothers who put kinako mochi and seaweed mochi in their children's lunch box. I was impressed by the fact that they were making freshly-made mochi for the children and sumo wrestlers who eat a lot while feeling hot.

　

Sokoku Raiseki, who won the Kyushu place ten cars, rushed in while he was busy.

The child was greeted by the signboard saying, "Congratulations on the Congratulations on the Congratulations on the Arashionobe and everyone's enjoy it."

　

Mr. Shigeru Miki, principal of Tsukishima Daiichi Elementary School, who is familiar with sumo, introduced Sokoku Raiseki, and the children also went from the classroom during the break time, saying, "Congratulations on winning the Sokoku Raiseki Juryo. I was sending a lot of ale. The children's feelings were also delivered to Sokoku Raiseki. In Chuo-ku, the “One Paku Sumo Chuo-ku Tournament” is held every year at the Chuo-ku Sports Center for elementary school students. For children, the strong Sokoku Raiseki is a familiar hero. For elementary school students in Chuo-ku, it can be said that they are a longing person.

Sokoku Raiseki was born in China and never ate rice cake. I heard from a wolf in Arashio room that I recently loved freshly cooked rice cakes when I came to Japan. Immediately, freshly cooked rice cake. I think it was very delicious.

　

Finally, I spoke to your wife. Yuka Suzuki served as a member of the Board of Education in Chuo-ku until last year. It is a valuable experience for children to interact with many wrestlers since the children of Chuo-ku were young, so today we brought 10 wrestlers to rice cake making. Kindergartens in Chuo-ku, which enjoy such benefits every year, are blessed. Elementary school at Tsukishima Daini Elementary School, rice cake making, and Waseda University. I hear that rice cake making can't increase any more because it overlaps in December. That's right.

　

I wish the wrestlers of the Sokoku Raiseki and Arashio rooms more and more active, and I would like to continue to support the Arashio room.

(I photographed with the permission of Arashio room and Tsukishima Daiichi Kindergarten.)

 

 

　Even though 2017 is about to end, this year's first post is likely to be the last post this year (>_<).

　　　

　I didn't have a correspondent. In early spring, I was in charge of a mini-tour of Ginza for foreign tourists at the Hina Matsuri event hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, but I was unable to report that. Last month, with the aim of exploring inbound response, we introduced a monitoring tour that assumes foreign tourists in Nihonbashi. This is a content sponsored by the Chuo-ku Tourism Association, which recruits foreigners living in Japan and evaluates the tour itself.

　　　

　This felt a lot of pressure.　

　　　

　So, I made my own panels like this and brought them to the site!

　Atakushi is a fan of the movie "Star Wars", if not as much as Mr. Mura of a certain tourist association, and I'm really looking forward to the last new work that will be released soon. I prepared such a "seasonal" story and started this monitoring tour.

　

　The opening uses the music of the example as BGM, A long time ago,far,far away.....

　

"A long time ago, in the past, it was a galaxy of Edo, when Jedai, Tokugawa, unified the whole country ..."　

　

　・・Let's start the tour with a feeling.

　

　In this way, if you come up with an idea that seems to be enjoyable for yourself and that will be interesting to customers, the pressure will blow away.　

　

　There is another reason why I tried to stick to "Star Wars".

　

　A statue of a lion like a komainu in Nihonbashi.

　What was that round guy on her hand?

　

　This is the emblem of Tokyo, as the correspondent knows.

　

　Actually, recently, I remembered when I saw the past Star Wars series, and I realized that the emblem of the Imperial Army was similar to this.

　

　Oh!　What's this?

　　　

　How does Tokyo recognize this fact, whether it's really casual or too explosive?

　　　

　The shape is simple, and unlike the time of the emblem (No, the same?) It may be just a coincidence.

　　　

　However, I feel that there is a reasonable doubt that George Lucas, who is familiar with Japanese culture and history, remains.

　　　

　The story of Jedai's knight, "Star Wars," inspired by Japanese Bushido

　　　

　Yeah, it's ridiculous! If I don't say, "Is something similar?" I wonder if I can't say that I can't say anything.

　　　

　Well, because of that, the timing of the release is near, and this time we walked around Edo Bra in the style of "Star Wars", but was there any problem?

　

 

 

　

The Thai Bancoklara Cafeteria in Higashinihombashi, which was introduced in April of this year, has closed.
The soba shop on the first floor was also relocated.
　

　

Click here for the previous article /archive/2017/04/post-4236.html

　

There are sister shops in the Bancoklara Cafeteria, and there are also two shops in Chuo-ku.

I'd like to go there next time.

　

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