Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

I went to the cold bathing tournament at Tetsunan Inari Shrine, a New Year's tradition in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.

　

１） Date and time
It was carried out from 11:00 am to 11:35 am on Sunday, January 11, 2015.
　
２） Venue
1-6-7 Minato, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
　
３） Overview
It was started as a ritual of purification for sound health for one year.
It started in 1955 and this is the 60th time this year.
After Miyashi's exorcism, a careful preparatory exercise is carried out, and about 100 people in loincloths (for women, white clothing) enter the aquarium with ice pillars.
　
４） The significance of bathing in the cold
Every year in the beginning of the New Year, during the cold bath at the Tetsugansu Inari Shrine is a Shinto ritual that prays for sound health by bathing in cold water in front of the shrine in the New Year and performing a purification ceremony to clean the mind and body. It is a pure Japanese language that is not found in Chinese language, so it can be seen that it is a custom unique to Japan.
It is said that the 60th anniversary of the festival was revived in 2015 by local people who were saved from epidemic diseases through thin clothes and bathing in the Edo period with gratitude to guardian god.
Since it was introduced to the top in the "Water Festival" section of the Adult Metropolitan Area Walking Magazine "Walking Master Mook / Festival & Event Calendar 2009" issued by the Kotsu Shimbun in 2008, Kanto's best tradition It has gained popularity as a prestigious water festival, and the number of participants and visitors increases every year.
　
５） How to bathe in the cold
Nara period, who was born in Usa-gun, Oita Prefecture in 1862, revived the purification method of Mitake Shrine, located at the summit of Mt. Mitake (929m), Ome City, Tokyo. There are a number of schools, but there is no big difference, and the cold bathing performed at Tetsugansu Inari Shrine is also performed by the purification method of the river surface style under the guidance of the Tokyo Shrine Agency's Narinari Event Michihiko (Guman) and Naotsushi Shinoheikawa Shrine Miyaji. It is done.
　
After going out on the public road and running around the shrine, as the Tetsugunshu Hayashi played in Kagura Hall flows, they performed bird boats for preparatory exercises, entered a cool water tank with large icicles, immersed in cold water to the chest, and soaked in cold water...."I purify my mind and body while doing the soul while chanting." After the end, we will conduct a reorganization campaign with a bird boat again and finish the cold purification ceremony.
　
The Arido Okami is the gods responsible for the exorcism in Shinto.•The filth flows from the river to the sea.•Fast-opening Tobi Sales (Since on the Seabed)•It is the four gods of swallowing the filthyness), Ki Fukido (breathing in the root country), and Hasasurahiuri (the sins and filth brought into the root country and loses). It is also called the four gods of exorcism, and it is a thankful gods who release our sins and filth deep underground based on the same concept as the current waste disposal. Therefore, during the water line, he recites Arido Okami many times. Miyaji's felicitation "great exorcism Lyrics" in great exorcism in June and December recites the relay of sin and filth by the Oga and others, so I understand you are listening well.

The details are as follows.
　
1) Run around the shrine
2) Bird boat event (Torifuneiji)
3) The soul (Furitama)
4) Yuken event (Otakebigyoji)
5) Yuzume event (Okorobigyoji)
6) Kebuki event
7) Kanmisogi

Source: Information for bathing participants of the Iron Gunshu Inari Shrine Yayoikai

　

　

 

 

        

 

 During the cold winter months, when water birds rest, they often see their heads and necks plunged into feathers on their backs.

Many birds have their head and face covered with feathers, but their beaks and eyelids have exposed skin.

If you plung your neck into the back, all exposed parts of the skin are covered with feathers, reducing the emission of body temperature.

In some cases, one leg is hiding on the feathers of the stomach by changing left and right.

The image at the beginning shows a calm afternoon during the cold and resting comfortably in the pool of the piers of Chuo-ohashi Bridge.

At first glance, he seems to be facing forward, and in fact he is turning his neck almost 180 ° and resting with his beak in his back wings.

A humorous and acrobatic posture.

Occasionally, I also show the gesture of mending the back feathers.

In general, birds cannot move their eyes very much, but they have more cervical spine than mammal, which is said to be able to move their neck flexibly.

 

Although it is generally difficult to distinguish seagull species, it is relatively easy to identify the three species of seagull, commonly found in the mouth of the Sumida River.

Seglocame> Larger than crows. His legs are light red. The beak is yellow and red spots at the bottom of the beak.

<black-tailed gull> Medium-sized (crow size). The legs are yellow. The beak is yellow and red and black at the tip of the lower beak.

Squirrel> Smaller than crows. The legs are red. The beak is red and the tip is black.

 

 

 

 

　We have previously posted pine decorations for New Year's Day.

At the "pine decoration" that celebrates the New Year, "how to cut bamboo" is cut diagonally, cut flat on the nodes, and decorate bamboo bamboo grass with pine, It's different at each shop.

　When I introduced this year's "Nihonbashi Seven Lucky Gods Tour", a few customers asked me a question.

It seems that Kadomatsu varies from region to region.

 

First of all, as for the cut, it seems that it has been cut sideways since ancient times, but since the Warring States period, it has been cut diagonally especially in samurai. It seems that this is called "Sogi".

　In places where the tradition of Kyoto is valued, bamboo still does not cut diagonally. So, in Kyoto, there are a lot of "sunto".

In addition to these two basic cutting methods, recently, the top of the bamboo is cut sideways and used a bamboo node to leave the shape of the mouth, so that it is not dangerous.

 

This time, I photographed the pine decorations of a hotel called a Western Ryokan.

This is the Marriott Hotel "Sogi" at the Kyobashi Trust Tower.

 

Pine decoration of Ginza Kokusai Hotel.　It's a small body.

 

The pine decoration of the Ginza Grand Hotel is "Sogi".

 

The pine decoration of the Millenium Mitsui Garden Hotel, which opened in December 2014, is Sogi.

 

The pine decorations of Mitsui Garden Hotel Ginza Pru Mie are "Sog + Mouth"

 

The pine decoration of Courtyard Marriott Ginza Tobu Hotel is "Sunto".

 

And I went to Uchisaiwai-cho and saw the pine decorations of the oldest hotel in Japan, which celebrated its 125th anniversary this year.

This is "Sagi + Mouth" with the upper part of the bamboo flat, the nodes in the middle, and the lower part with a modest opening of the mouth.

 

 Each hotel seemed to be particular about it, and it was a very interesting exploration.

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  "Mini Garden Guided Tour" where you can stroll around the park with the guidance of a green advisor at Harumi Triton Square Pocket Plaza "Flowers, Water and Trees".

This month was held on January 8th.

①12:30～12:50

②14:30～15:30

deciduous tree drops leaves all at once during the winter and enters dormant.

However, if you look closely, the "winter buds" swell at the tip of the branch, and you can feel the breath of life prepared for the coming spring.

On the other hand, the green of the usually plain evergreen coniferous becomes relatively noticeable.

In addition, such as Naniwazu (same as Onishibari), there are species that fall in midsummer and produce new leaves and flower buds of the next spring from autumn. (also known as Natsu Bows)

Under the cold sky, I was taught the viewing points of the winter garden.

 

☆Enjoy a dignified color

In light of this season, I picked up white ones.

From the left,cyclamen, Snowdrop, Juugatsuzakura

     

 

☆Enjoy the unique shape of evergreen coniferous trees

Even though it is evergreen, there are some species that are brownish in winter, and the colors of green vary.

From left, Montana pine, Colorado jaccin "Blue Heven", Hinoki "Nana Grassiris", Alaska cypress "Pendura", Nioihiba　　　　　

     

 

☆Enjoy twice (for example, winter lilywood)

The fruit of the lily tree is a collection of wing fruit in a pine cone shape.

The wing fruit scatters in the wind, but the central axis and the outermost wing fruit remain.

The whole Kaho looks like a flower.

The reason why it is said that "Yurinoki gives flowers twice."

During this season, you can see the tree shape well.

 

 

 

■On the 3rd of the University Hakone Ekiden Otemachi Goal, I walked along Chuo-dori from Kyobashi to Nihonbashi.

Here are some of the things I saw.

（１） At the corner of the Kyobashi intersection, a preliminary meeting was held. On the sidewalk beyond that, there was a support banner (shooting time: 11:30). The same applies below.

（２） On the sidewalk, signs for caution about Ekiden were installed and ropes were stretched (11:35).

（３） Near Takashimaya, there were people who secured a place for support (11:38).

 

（４） In front of Maruzen, there were groups supporting Waseda University (11:40).

（５） Next, a group supporting Meiji University (11:41).

（６） And at the Nihonbashi intersection, a group supporting Aoyama Gakuin University (11:43).

 

（７） Supporters began to gather on the sidewalk of Nihonbashi (12:00).

 （８） In front of Eitaro's store, there were stalls such as oshiruko. A TV was set up in front of the entrance of the building so that the situation of the Ekiden could be understood (12:07).

（９） Fire Department Special Security Headquarters (12:10).

（１０） At the Nihonbashi Pier, a sightseeing boat was moored (12:12).

（１１） Near Nihonbashi Otohime Square, equipment for TV broadcasts was prepared (12:13).

（１２） Mitsukoshi New Building (12:14). Before 1 o'clock, a banner was posted at the store.

（１３） People waiting for players at the Nihonbashi Kitazume Intersection (13:19).

（１４） Lead police cars, broadcast cars, white motorcycles and first-ranked Aoyama Gakuin University player (13:25).

 

 （１５） 2nd place Komazawa University player (13:35).

 

（１６） 3rd place player at Toyo University (13:37).

（１７） 4th place Meiji University player (13:37).

（１８） 5th place student at Waseda University (13:37).

■I visited Fukutoku Shrine for the first time.

　　

 

 

 

　

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 Tokyo Sky Tree shows a variety of lighting productions every season and commemorative time.

From November 1 to December 25, <limited lighting> of "Candle Tree", "White Tree", "Champagne Tree" & "Masa" and "Iki" according to the Christmas season.

After December 26 (~ January 31, 2015), "Winter Masa" and "Winter Seiki" are turning on alternately, but from New Year's Eve to the beginning of the new year, <New Year Special Lighting> is held to delight the eyes He gave me

Lighting time: 23:50 on December 31, 2014 to 1:00 on January 1, 2015

The five-color intersection lighting of red, yellow, green, pink and gold is lit based on white.

One of the four lighting techniques of the Tokyo Sky Tree (light-up, light-down, intersection lighting, clock light), the light emitted from the lighting fixtures installed at the intersection of the steel frame of the tower shines directly.

At the end of the year when the great cold wave arrived on the archipelago, the weather was worried and the glow with a strict atmosphere of the New Year can be seen over Eitai Bridge.

(Left: Fuyu Masa right: Winter style)