Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

The long-awaited Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Grand Festival

The festival is held every three years.
It was scheduled for 2011 last year, but was postponed due to the effects of the earthquake and it was this year (2012).

I can see the new headquarters portable shrine this year, and the people of the town will feel more than usual this year.

This is the poster for this year. I wanted you to see it at a glance.

Majestic and beautiful for the new octagonal portable shrine.

The poster for each festival is really wonderful.

I'm looking forward to the next time.

 

Departure for the head office Kachidoki Imperial Palace in portable shrine

I'm always impressed by the appearance.

Now the foundation of life is
I think many people have left Tsukuda, Tsukishima, Kachidoki, Harumi, and return to this festival. I'm one of them.

When I was a child, I started with floats and joined the adult community in portable shrine and Dai portable shrine.
I really liked the atmosphere a few days before the festival.
Above all, the best drum for the three days of the festival. In the tranquility of the morning, the drums approach the most from the distance, wake up with the sound of a down, and it is only the morning of the three days that you can feel tight even while you sleep.
I miss you.

I've been getting older, but I've been carrying it again this year.

First of all, portable shrine. Thanks to the shout of "Soiya" to taste the feeling that the steps are united.

The water is vigorous and can be breathed as expected, but I do not usually use it, but the word "super pleasant!" is perfect.

On the way, drinks, watermelons, cucumbers, dumplings, fried chicken, etc. are all exceptional after they are served deliciously. Thank you for your dinner. Thank you very much.

 

August 6 Tour of portable shrine Town Headquarters

A lot of people who want to play a new octagon

I feel like it.

I was crazy about it

It was a very good time.

I was glad to carry a little nose stick.

 

Traditional Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine Grand Festival I want to keep watching it from now on.

 

 

August 11-12 was Reitaisai festival once every three years (maybe). I was able to see it for the first time.

Preparation began more than a month ago, and I was looking forward to what kind of festival it was.

The area around my home (Akimasa Elementary School) is a lunch break place, and it was usually filled with people in places where there were not so many people.

Even so, I didn't know that the shrine parishioner area of Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in Koto-ku was in Chuo-ku. Also, Tsukuda Island has a festival of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine, and I thought it would be very interesting that the portable shrine carrying was different just by separating one road.

Next time I really wanted to carry portable shrine.

 

 

The other day, I had the opportunity to have a person who lived in Tsukiji before the war show an old photo.

One of the most interesting things was "just after the end of the war" from the roof of "Navy Military Medical School (now Cancer Center)".
At that time, this building was requisitioned by the army and ordinary Japanese could not enter, so the photos at this angle seem to be very rare, but a soldier who happened to meet him said, `` I took a picture near your house. "

　The first one is a picture of Ginza on the left side of the rooftop.
The statue on the left end is a bronze statue of Arisugawa Shrine, which seems to be quite large.
The Tsukiji River has not yet been reclaimed, and at the bottom right is the Kitamon Bridge, which has now disappeared, and the bridge in the middle is the Saijo Bridge.
At present, there are many buildings ahead of it, including Jiji Tsushinsha, but in this photo, there are few tall buildings and there are places that are vacant, and instead of Showa-dori ahead, Ginza 4-chome You can look up to the "Wako Clock Tower" at the intersection!
It seems that there were quite a few buildings demolished in advance because this was "compulsory evacuation" in order to prevent the spread of fire, rather than burning in an air raid.

　  
Left: Right after the end of the war, the Ginza area right: From the current Saijo Bridge to Ginza

 The second one is the angle looking at Harumi-dori St. from the entrance of the current Tsukiji Social Education Center, and straight to the left to Ginza.
The river in the foreground was reclaimed afterwards, and the Tsukiji Social Education Center was built in that place.

It is said that "Tsukiji was spared from air raids because of St. Luke Hospital," but incendiary bombs aimed at Ginza seemed to fall considerably due to their aim and being washed away by the wind. "I can't forget that Schulsul and fire ran on this street," said the person who showed the photo.

　
Left: Immediately after the end of the war, in front of the Tsukiji Social Education Center Right: In front of the current Tsukiji Social Education Center

It's been 67 years since the war ended.
Those who can talk about such things have become older, but I thought that we had to inherit the history of the city where we live.

 

 

 

Every time I passed about the uninhabited temple near Asashiobashi at Tsukishima 4-chome, I was worried and visited many times to search for the name of the temple, auspiciousness, the intention of building, etc., but I can't find it from outside the temple.
The only clue is that there are 29 stone pillars, which are thought to be donors, on both sides of the space like the approach to the approach, for the founder and owner, and a lantern.
According to the owner's stone pillar, the construction was on May 1961. However, I am concerned about the degree of devastation, either because of its inability to live.
The founder and owner will be described later, but when I read this stone pillar, I was amazed at the background of the people involved in the construction. There are only members of the Diet such as ministers and governors who have been active in Tokyo (city) and the Diet from before and after the war.
That's why in erecting, I looked for something that could be even more clues to whether there was a deep word, but I couldn't quite understand the details.

The founder was Makoto Nagano, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University, a vice-chairman and Buddhist scholar of the 2nd World Buddhist Conference held in Tsukiji Honganji in 1952. I guessed that he was invited as the founder of a temple in Chuo-ku at that edge. (It's a good interpretation....)
　In addition, the owner is a city council (city council) elected from the Kyobashi district before the war.

　This temple is described as "Shakado hall" on the current map, but the elders in the district asked about the temple during the 1988 round-table discussion "Talking Tsukishima" hosted by Chuo-ku. When I was asked, he said "Taishido". Isn't the main statue enshrined in Shakado hall and Taishido completely different? Also, if you look through the glass door inside main hall, you'll be charged Kannon Bodhisattva. I'm wondering. So, when I looked next to the hall to see if there were any further hints, the founder, Dr. Nagano, wrote "Namsanpo".

On the right side of this forehead, the inscription "Edo Fire Memorial Party" is written, and on the left side the forehead notice (lucky day December 1961)) is written.

What is the connection with Dr. Nagano, the founder of the House of Representatives, and the Edo Fire Memorial Association? There is only an increase in doubt.

In the aforementioned round-table discussion about what purpose it was erected for the purpose, the old man of Tsukishima said, "To the owner mourns various people's bodhis."
Therefore, when I contacted the Edo Fire Memorial Association about this temple, a historical site researcher of the association immediately investigated it, and it became clear that the relationship between the owner of main hall and the fire memorial society was not close. . In particular, anecdotes from the owner of main hall remain in the memoir of Miemon Furukawa, the head of Nigumi.

In any case, the temple, which was related to so many people, was a survey that made me feel painfully the lack of decaying without a guard.

In this survey, the Kyobashi Library Regional Archives, Tsukishima Library, and the Edo Fire Memorial Society Historic Site Investigators were instrumental. Once again, I would like to thank you very much.

 

 

In the Edo period, there was a Temmacho prison in the area of Jisshi Park, Jushi Square (former Jushi Elementary School) in Nihonbashikodenmacho. With a site area of about 2,700 tsubo (approximately 8,900 m2), it is said that it was the largest prison in the Shogunate with a maximum of 900 prisoners. The excavation was about 900 m2 of this excavation, and it is rare to excavate such a large prison site. A tour of the archeological excavation site was held on August 10 and 11.

 

According to the tour materials, the prison was located outside Tokiwa Hashikado in the early Edo period, but was relocated to Ko Temmacho around 1613 (1613 = 1618 in the handout, but if the Japanese calendar is correct, it will be 1613) It survived until 1875 (1875). The prison was like a detention house until the sentence was finalized. The prison (gogun magistrate) to be managed is the Ishide sword (Ishide Tatewaki). The prison was distinguished by the status of the prisoner. These include Gennai Hiraga, Kazan Watanabe, Yoshida Shoin, Shozan Sakuma and Sanai Hashimoto.

 

The excavated remains were wooden gutters, water basins, wells, stone walls, and burnt traces drawn from Kanda Josui, where ceramics, tiles, metal fittings, coins, etc. were excavated. (Reference material: "Temmacho prison ruins site tour material", Chuo-ku Board of Education, published on August 10, 2012) ●Akira Makibuchi

 

 

 

 On the last day of the festival on August 6, Miya portable shrine (octagonal portable shrine), who stayed overnight at the Imperial Palace, was handed over to Harumi, Kachidoki, Tsukishima, and Shin-Tsukuda, and returned to Tsukuda 1-chome, the original Tsukuda island.

Finally, the time of "welcome" of the shrine mikoshi.

At dusk, from Tsukuda Kobashi to Shin-Tsukuda, "Tsukuda" and "Sumiyoshi-ko" are raised, and "Wakaishi" forms a platoon.

When the clap of Shin-Tsukuda rings and the hand tightens, it is finally the last cruise.

The only bearers of "entering the shrine" are "caretakers" and "large young people".

Leaded by the master of the Tobi who sings woodworking, proceed slowly.

When you enter the precincts, you'll finally get a big deal. The sound of the Tsukuda Hayashi became particularly loud, and after the "Sasu" work was performed to push the mikoshi to heaven at once, it is quietly enshrined in front of the temple.

After a while, an announcement was made that "the solemn Shinto rituals will be held, and all the lights in shrine hall and the precincts were turned off, and the Spirit was transferred from portable shrine to Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine was made.

This was followed by hand tightening, and the curtain of a hot festival was set.

The music resonated as if regretting the remnants, and the lingering lingering of the heat remained in the darkness.