Did you know that in the current Chuo-ku, there used to be a place where a thousand cars fall on a day during the Edo period?
All of them are places where many people gather, so it means that a large amount of money is used.
That kind of place was the Sangasho below.
(1) Fish banks along the banks of Nihonbashi
(2) The play town in Nihonbashi Sakaimachi and Fukiya-cho
(3) Yoshiwara (Shin-Yoshiwara) prospered as a castle town
※The first playhouse in Edo began when Saruwakaza raised a tower in Kyobashi in 1624, and then moved to Negimachi (Nemachi, now Nihonbashi Horidomecho) and Sakaimachi (now Ningyocho) at the order of the Shogunate. Has been relocated.
By the way, Shijo-cho and Yoshiwara were originally located in the neighborhood of the current Ningyocho, but after the great fire of Edo in 1657 (1657), "the Great Fire of the Meiryaku era (furisode fire)" in 1659 (1659) Moved to the back of Asasakusa. In 1659, the Ohashi Bridge (Ryogoku Bridge), which was first bridged to the Sumida River, was completed on December 13 of that year.
Today's title "Takao Inari Shrine" tells the sad story of Takao Sendai, the second generation of the geisha tower "Miuraya" in Shin-Yoshiwara that occurred in 1659. For me, the image of Sendai Takao is dubbed with the Oiran "Nokaze" that appears in the popular TV drama "Ni-jin".
A passage spoken in the pillow of Rakugo's "Sendai Takao / Ukiyodoko".
"Oh, yeah, I've always said that this person wants to leave his name. Well, it's not easy to say what he did, and that the name will remain. I don't say that there's no name left. Well, there are quite a few Oiran riddles left their name. Oh, in the past, in this o, oh Yoshiwara, it was said that pine was about the pine, and he sold very insight. And the customer also said they paid a lot of money and were willing to buy that insight." What a story that starts with?......。
To sum up this story, Sendai 620,000 stones Tsunamune Date receives the second generation Takao of Manji in Miuraya, the so-called Sendai Takao, and later takes him to Shiba's Shimoyashiki by boat, Mitsumata (the current Kiyosu Bridge on the Sumida River) It is said that there was a slashing it on the street. (Left: near the present Mitsumata)
There is also a popular theory that Takao had a affair named Shigesaburo Shimada, so he did not listen to the Tsunamune, and he contracted Tsunamune with twenty gold, the same weight as Takao's weight.
It is said that Takao's body drifted a few days later on the shores of Kita-Niihori in this area of Okawabata (Sumida River), and the monk who had set up hermitage at that time was withdrawn and buried thickly. The sympathy of the people gathered at the pitiful end of Takao, built a company there, worshiped her divine spirit Takao Daimyojin, and made it Takao Inarisha.
It is very rare for Inari-sha in Japan that now has a real divine spirit (actual skeleton) as enshrined deity.
Location of Takao Inari (Nihonbashi-Hakozaki-cho, Chuo-ku: right next to IBM's office)
In the Meiji era, there were Inari Shrine and the Hokkaido Pioneering Envoy Tokyo Branch Office (later the building at the time of the opening of the Bank) in this area. Later, along with the construction of the current Mitsui Warehouse, shrine hall was moved to its current location with sacred object of worship.
A phrase that Takao is said to have given to Hou Sendai
"You are now around Komagata."
The grave of Sendai Takao is located next to the entrance of the Danya Cemetery in Jodo sect, Asakusa, Taito-ku.
