Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　We walked around Kachidokibashi in winter morning.

At around 7 o'clock in the morning, when there were few traffic, I photographed the buildings seen from the base of the bridge.

This is a photo from Nishizume on the left bank of Sumida River.

　 To the left of Tokyo Tower, Shiodome Shiodome Shiosite right is Conrad Tokyo.

The Shiodome City Center Building looks like a rice cracker twisted.

　On the right side of the riverbank is Tsukiji Market and the parking lot building.

Gun Center Central Hospital.

　Kanji characters of "Kachidokibashi" view from the right bank Nishizume

At the place where you cross it, the hiragana notation of "Kachidokibashi" is written.　

The building on the left is Inuikatchidokivir Crestocitate Residence

　You can also see Tokyo Towers in the distance.

 

 

　I will cross the right bank Higashizume from now on.

The silhouette of Plaza Tower Kachidoki is beautiful.

 

I just looked at the downstream side from the upstream side of the bridge.

　The photo on the right shows the upper stream.

You can see St. Luke Hospital and Sumitomo Life Building.

You can see the distance from Ishikawajima Island on Tsukuda Island.

　You can look upstream from the left bank (around Tsukishima).

Just right to the right of St. Luke Hospital, you can see only the Tokyo Sky Tree spire antenna.

The photo on the left is

From the left bank Higashizume (Tsukishima), I looked at the Ginza area.

The morning sun is beautiful reflecting on the side of the building.

You can see the Tsukishima River Suimon at the left end of the photo on your right.

If you get warmer in the future, it's a great thing to walk around Kachidokibashi.

A lot of flowers begin to bloom in the plums and flower beds.

 

 

 

The Chuo-ku Snow Festival will be held on February 9 and 10 at Akatsuki Park at Tsukiji 7-chome.

This festival, which is held once every two years, is very popular mainly for infants and children in lower grades of elementary school.

About half of Akatsuki Park is covered with snow brought from a friendship city, Higashine City, Yamagata Prefecture, and a slope that is too far enough for children to appear.

You can rent sleds and miniskies for free. The row of skis is long, but the order is fast.

In addition, potato broth by local PTA and father's party is also served.

There is no doubt that you can see the children's bursting smile, please go out.

 

 

I visited temples and shrines full of individuality in Chuo-ku, strolled around the neighborhood, and continued a series to offer a phrase of memories, but this is the last one.

 

In Shikoku pilgrimages, the departure of a prayer trip is called "application" (hotsugan), and the successful completion of a tour is called "kigan". The pilgrimage to Chuo-ku continues, but as a conclusion of this series, we decided on the place of "Ying" at Tsukiji's "Namishi Inari Shrine".

 In the early Edo period, the Shogunate built the current Tsukiji area to expand the city area, but at that time, when the intense waves were extremely difficult, the weather stopped when worshiping Inari found on the sea, It is said that From that history, the precious name of "wab removal" was given.

 

It has long been worshiped as a guardian deity in the Tsukiji area, but since the fish shore moved after the Great Kanto Earthquake, it has become even more bustling. At the festival last summer, many people from the market participated and it was exciting. Will this festival change if Tsukiji Market moves? Or will it leave the same atmosphere? However, the history of this shrine, which has been over 350 years, will surely be passed down.

The symbol of "Namishi Inari Shrine" is a pair of male and female lion heads. In the past, it seems that it was a festival to pray for good luck with the dragon and the tiger, but now only the lion is left and is enshrined carefully. However, at the time of the festival, this lion is also tailored to portable shrine and travels around each town lively. For the people of Tsukiji, they are proud and familiar.

 

There are a number of mounds, namely memorials, such as Tamagozuka and Ebitsuka, on the grounds. It was dedicated by the market participants with gratitude for their lives. It is a monument unique to the area where many people work related to fresh fish and sushi.

 

 

 

I think many people visit Ko Shrine when they visit Tsukiji Market, but please go to the Sumida River because it is a great deal. The view of the river surface from Kachidokibashi is also relaxing. When it gets a little warmer, you can also taste the scenery of "Spring Urara's Sumida River ... ♪", which is declared in Rentaro Taki's "Flowers" on the Sumida River Terrace.

In addition, "Tentake" in front of Tsukiji Market Kachidoki Gate is a famous restaurant where you can taste delicious without hesitation. On the 29th of every month, Fugu Tendon is usually 1,680 yen as a "Fugu Day Service", so it is advantageous because it is just 1,000 yen. Please try it once.

By the way, the event of this season is the Setsubun Festival on February 3. It will also be held here at "Namishi Inari Shrine". (Photo 2 leaves of the Setsubun Festival are quoted from the shrine website.)

On the evening of Setsubun's Day, a ceremony is held in accordance with the ancient ceremony called "Tonna Mitsuya". It shoots three arrows, each of which has the meaning of "turning the disease to health", "turning the pain to fortune", and "turning the shade cheerfully". After that, a scatter a lot of sweets from a special stage. Every time, many worshipers come in search of lucky sweets. I'm going to join this scatter this year too.

At "Namishi Inari Shrine", the shout of "Oni is outside" is not used, and it is exclusively chanted as "Fuku is inside". There is a feeling of praying for the happiness of worshipers in the precincts.

 

In the first place, "Setsubun" means "the turn of the season", and of course it is originally four times a year, but it seems that it began to refer only to the day before "Riharu". Long ago, Ritsuharu was the beginning of the year, so Setsubun was an important day with the meaning of switching from old to new.

The event called "Tsuna" is a Miyanaka event that was once held on New Year's Eve to pay evil demons that destroyed the capital of Kyoto. Eventually, "Oniyarai" became a custom called "bean-throwing ceremony" and spread throughout the country. Since "Setsubun" had the meaning of a year's milestone, I guess it might have come to take place on this day instead of "New Year's Eve".

 

My old aunt, who was already older when I was a child, called "Setsubun" "New Year's Eve." Apparently, there are regions all over the country that call so. In other words, you can see that "Setsubun" was positioned similar to New Year's Eve. In addition, the custom of "Ehomaki", which has recently been advertised in a complex, etc., was originally a region centered on Osaka, and it spread to the Kanto region in no time. It is said that Seven-Eleven launched it around 1990. It's still late, isn't it?

In Osaka, it has been practiced since ancient times, as it invites luck by rolling thick rolls toward Ekata of that year. It is customary that you should not speak at this time. However, this custom in Osaka is not so old, and it has spread at once since the owner of a sushi shop in the Taisho era that the husbands of the Senba originally went to play in the teahouse, after the owner of a sushi shop campaign to develop needs It is a common theory that it spread. In other words, it originated very similar to "Eel of Earth" and "Valentine Day".

 

As such, the desire to do "bean-throwing ceremony" on the day of "Setsubun" and wish for fortune remains unchanged. In most homes, my father may play the role of a demon. It is also an important role to escape by being hit by children with sanzan beans. After the children fall asleep, do you have your mother accompany me with a green liquor? Even in the town of Tsukiji, you can see each other in the night of Setsubun.

 

If you hear "Ritsuharu", your feelings will flutter in spring even if it is still cold. I wish you a bright and happy spring.

 This is the end of this series. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

 

・・・ A bowl of sake with a clear star and a ragged demon　

 

 

 

A series that rediscovers the charm of Chuo-ku while strolling around temples and shrines in the city is also in the end. This time, I visited "Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine" in Tsukuda.

 

Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine has already been featured by many correspondents, and I just interviewed in the Tsukishima Seven Wonders Series last summer in Reitaisai festival. Therefore, this time, I would like to focus on the episodes around this shrine.

Tsukishima Seven Wonders-Episode 3 "Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Festival"

The origin of Tsukuda Island is already famous, but when Ieyasu Tokugawa entered Edo, 33 fishermen from Tsukuda Island, Nishinari-gun, Settsu-kuni (currently Tsukuda, Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka City), along with Shinto priesthood in the same area. I inherited the place name and the faith of guardian god. It is said that the current shrine was officially enshrined on June 29, 1646 (old calendar), and since then the shrine's Reitaisai festival was held on this day. After the new calendar, festivals are held in early August, which is the date.

My uncle's family once lived in Tsukuda, Osaka, the roots of Tsukuda, Chuo-ku. I've visited several times when I was a child. Tsukuda in Osaka is a coastal area heading from the center of the city to Kobe, and I remember that there were many factories from here to Amagasaki City. Just as the Ishikawajima Shipyard was built next to Tsukuda Island in Tokyo, there are some places where the locality is similar.

National Route 2 (No. 1 Hanshin National Highway) and National Route 43 (No. 2 Hanshin National Highway) pass beside the town, and the Hanshin Namba Line also runs, making it a major transportation hub connecting Osaka and Kobe. There must have been a lot of traffic of people and boats. I think the residents were sensitive to new information and were good at business sense. I guess that the descendants emigrated to Tsukuda, now Chuo-ku, and demonstrated their sensibility and action at the beginning of the Edo period.

By the way, when you actually walk on Tsukuda Island, it is a town with a relieved atmosphere whenever you visit. First, visit "Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine". The shrine area here is never wide, but it feels like Tsukuda Island itself is with the shrine, so it can be said that it is a shrine that stands without discomfort. In the first place, Sumiyoshi is a guardian deity related to the sea and water, such as shipping and fishing, so it can be said that it is a god suitable for the area surrounded by water. The fact that the grand Torii gate in front is built facing the Sumida River is a proof that God will enter and exit by boat, and it is deeply moved by history.

The place where Tsukuda's ferry used to be was the stone monument of playwright Shuji Hojo. "If it snows, Tsukuda is an old Edo island" is also a phrase with a good taste.

The area around the back of "Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine" and crossing Tsukuda Kobashi is often used in dramas, but I also love the atmosphere of the boat pool in front of me. It is a place where you can relax when you take a walk on holidays.

There is a small hall called "Tsukudatendaiko Ikuchizoson" near here, but in an alley where no people can pass each other, a large ginkgo tree extends from the hole on the roof of Machiya to the sky It extends upward. It's a very unusual landscape, so I often decide to pass through this alley when I invited my friends to walk. Tsukuda is a great place to take a walk while walking along such alleys and back streets. However, it is necessary to take care not to disturb the lives of residents.

Nevertheless, there are few tall buildings in Tsukuda and alleys spread vertically and horizontally, so light leaks from here and there. The sorrow of the sunset is also good, and the sun of the sunrise is also good. However, because the alley is narrow, the light on a leaked day will be thinner. At this time, the position of the sun is still low and the sunset is early, so the scenery where cats are sunbathing on a not so wide sun is also wonderful.

I love Tsukuda, such a tasty town. It's a cold season, but please go out in search of warm light.

 

・・・ Tsukuda Island, where the cold and the sun are thin.

 

 

 seagulldusky thrush and other winter birds coming all the way from the northern Eurasian Continent, as well as birds coming from the mountains, can be seen in the winter.

Among them, the appearance of Japanese white-eye, where camellia flowers gather closely, is lovely.

According to the officials of the Wild Bird Society of Japan, this year is the "fond year" of winter birds.

 

　brown-eared bulbul: It's full body gray with a head. The cheeks are plain red.

　　 Starlings: The beak and feet are orange. White spot on the cheek.

　　 dusky thrush: Eyebrow spots, mottled pattern on the chest.

　　 Japanese tit: White cheeks, " tie" pattern from chest to belly.

　　 Japanese white-eye: Yellow-green. White eye rings around the eyes.

　　 Hakusekirei: Sway the tail feather up and down, alternate legs and walk quickly.

 

　　　　　　　　<brown-eared bulbul>　　　　　　　　　　　Starlings　　　　　　　　　　　　<dusky thrush>

           

　　　　　　<Japanese tit>　　　　　　　　　　<Japanese white-eye>　　　　　　　　　　 <Hakusekirei>

           

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year. We sincerely pray for the prosperity of Chuo-ku and the good health of those who are related to this year.

 

By the way, this exploration report that I started in the series last fall, but I will continue to keep it a little longer. It is a walk as you want, a visit to temples and shrines, and a self-religious spirit, but please be patient.

 

At the beginning of the year, we will start from Nihonbashi. Oedo Nihonbashi ♪ As you sang, isn't it a land suitable for the beginning of the New Year? Cross Nihonbashi and walk along with praying for one year's well-being in the flow of new balls of water.

 

As you all know, the underground streets of Nihonbashi are full of reproductions of "Kidai Shoran" on the wall. It is a valuable picture that carefully depicts the commercial shops lined up on the main street of Nihonbashi 200 years ago. The original picture was discovered in Germany, and a reproduction was created by the Meibashi "Nihonbashi" Preservation Society and the Nihonbashi Regional Renaissance 100-Year Planning Committee, and was established in 2009.

It is drawn very accurately, and just looking at it makes you feel like you slipped in the Edo period. When I visit Nihonbashi, my legs naturally go to this picture.

 

  Go out to the ground, look at the [Mitsui Main Building] to the left, turn right at the end of [Cored Nihonbashi], and you will find [Ukiyokoji]. Isn't it a gorgeous name? Of course, it is well written in pictures of the Edo period. This is Fukutoku Shrine. It's the perfect name for New Year's Day, so I'll go to Hatsumode immediately. You can see an adorable and tasteful appearance in the new streets.

The luck in the first place seems to go back more than a thousand years ago, and it is said that it flourished with the opening of Edo. After the transition, he arrived here, but disappeared by air raids, and was enshrined on the roof of a building after the war. It was newly developed along with the redevelopment of Nihonbashi Muromachi, and it came to the ground again last year. With this, you can feel free to drop in.

 

Fukutoku Shrine is one of the few shrines that allowed wealth during the Edo period, and because of its edge, it is also known as the god of fortune prayers. It's a lottery I'm talking about now. As introduced at the time of Sugimori Shrine, it would have been very popular in the Edo period. You don't have to be a lottery, so I wish you could meet something lucky.

This shrine is also known as "Mebuki Shrine", and this is also an auspicious name. Everything was named after Tokugawa's second shogun Hidetada, budding in the Kunugi tree used for the torii gate during the visit.

 

In addition, this shrine is located [Ukiyokoji] is the place where the famous restaurant "Hyakukawa" was located in Edo. It is also known as the stage of rakugo. As long as I miss the story of Mr. Ensei and Mr. Shin Asa, "Hyakukawa" is a real restaurant and was one of the best restaurants in Edo that undertook dishes during the negotiations of the Japan-US Peace Treaty. Unfortunately, it went out of business in the early Meiji era, but it seems that stores remained for a while in the Meiji era, and Meiji period's rakugo "Hyakukawa" would have been accepted with a real sense.

 

Now, after you have completed your visit comfortably, you will return to your home and have delicious sake. First of all, a lot of slaughterhouses. In general, slaughterhouses are prepared by soaking commercially available slaughterhouses in sake, but since it is originally like herbal bath to exorcise evil, it feels more pure than good. But I will give you a celebration while feeling the joy of the New Year.

May this be a good year for all of you.

 

・・・ Maybe the slaughter is the god of fortune

 

More Pilgrimage to temples and shrines in the ward-No. 9 "Fukutoku Shrine"