Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

   The following article is published in Nikkei evening edition today (October 27, 2015).

＞Betta pickled, Edo culture flower-sweet, white, smart taste (food navigator)
2015/10/27 Nihon Keizai Shimbun Evening page 7, 2053 characters

Among them

"As with other pickles, Betara pickles have spread throughout the country due to the development of chilled distribution. Currently, the top in the industry is Takaya (Tokyo, Chuo) in Tokyo. He started full-scale production after the war and worked hard to rebuild Beta City, but struggled with how to appeal to being a pickle in Tokyo. The plant has been moved to Saitama Prefecture, and local products cannot be sold because raw materials are procured from all over the country.　Therefore, he was certified by the National Tourism Souvenir Fair Trade Council and was designated as a recommended specialty by the Chuo-ku Tourism Association, and has been particular about Tokyo's specialty. "

　It is said that a system called "Recommended specialty products of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association" is also introduced.

There are only two months left in 2015, and November is a season when events such as school cultural festival, including cultural day (holiday), but in Chuo-ku, this weekend (November 1), the whole Chuo-ku museum is held once a year. Poster information has already been posted on the bulletin board in the city.

The whole museum is held for the eighth time this year, but it is a day like a museum where you can enjoy the various charms of Chuo-ku, as the name suggests, centering on official events held in various parts of the city. In addition to events that convey the history and tradition of 400 years since the opening of Edo, events unique to Tokyo and Japan, such as contemporary and future events, art (exhibitions, performances), environmental activities, barrier-free, etc. (For details of the event, please refer to the information on the Marugoto Museum website at the end of the sentence.)

(The "Chuo Kumin cultural festival" lobby concert last year. Tsukiji Social Education Center

The venue will be a large area of the entire ward, but on the day, in addition to regular public transportation, free patrol buses (turn left, turn right), boat routes (including 4 routes, tour routes), Edo buses (Free on the day!) There is no need to worry about moving. If you participate in stamp rally, collect three or more stamps at the event venue and fill out the questionnaire, you can also participate in the prize-winning raffle.

(The state of last year's patrol bus stop (Tsukiji). Staff wearing orange wear will guide you to you.

Finally, let me know. The patrol bus goes around a route where public transportation such as the metropolitan bus does not pass much, so it is a chance to discover a new Chuo-ku from the train window. In addition, a correspondent of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association will guide you on the bus, so you may be able to hear special tourist information. 。 。

Please look forward to it!

[Marugoto Museum in Chuo-ku]

Date and time: Sunday, November 1 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: The whole area of the city. For more information, please visit our website.

Marugoto Museum website:　http://marugoto-chuo.jimdo.com/

　In "Monoshiri Encyclopedia", there are explanations on pages 109 and 146. The bulletin board in the photo on page 147 was new (with English and painting).

This is part of the Shin-Tsukuda Island Reclaimed Land completed in 1896, and at that time it was a quiet scenic spot where the mountains of Boso could be seen in the cloud.
　The Shikaikan, a boarding inn built by Hanzo Tsuboi, was built by many cultural figures, including literary artists, poets, and painters.
　In 1907, Toson Shimazaki wrote "Spring", and the following year introduced Fujimura, Kaoru Osanai wrote "Okawabata", and around the 2nd to 3rd year, Sonosuke Sato, Shohachi Kimura, Yumeji Takehisa, Rofu Miki, Bunnosuke Nisatsu, Tenmin Matsuzaki, Kendoyama, etc. are also held here.
　This monument was built in 1968 by the Fujimura Research Department of Meiji Gakuin University, the alma mater of Fujimura, and the back is the description of the origin of "Spring".

　Fujimura seems to have spent about a year since September 1907 (1907) from the preparation of writing "Spring" to the end of the serialization. This "spring" was published 135 times in the Asahi Shimbun from April 7, 1908 after Soseki Natsume's "piter".

　During writing, Fujimura told an acquaintance about the state of this seawater hall, etc., "Half this year-I need to write two-thirds of the time I can do it ... I think that I will move to an inn on this coast from yesterday. This inn does not tell my friends ... The writing of the Asahi Shimbun has not yet been announced to the world. In a room in the west corner of the second floor, it combines the quietness of a temple and the convenience of a dormitory. "

　Facing the Toyosu area near the site of the current Kaisuikan (taken on October 18, 2015)

 From October 10th (Sat) to November 3rd (Tuesday / holiday), "Tokyo Station-Nihonbashi" Showa Retro Tour "is being held in the Tokyo Station-Nihonbashi area.

Tokyo Station City Management Council, Daimaru Tokyo Store, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store, Mitsui Fudosan, and Yaesu Underground Shopping Center.

Last year, "Aruko!" commemorated the 100th anniversary of the opening of Tokyo Station! Tokyo Station-Nihonbashi "Hundred Years Walk" was held, but if it was changed to the Showa era in 2015, it was a milestone of "90 years", and the neighborhood is full of history and there are many spots related to "Showa" Because of this, under the theme of "Showa", stroll through the Tokyo Station-Nihonbashi area where the past and present intersect, and rediscover the charm of the charm of the city's of the city.

If you go around each point while looking at the "walking map"* in the area where each episode is attached, such as architecture built in Showa, you can get a "memorial replica hard ticket"* of the cardboard ticket, which was once widely used as a railway ticket.

 ＊Distribution location of "Walking Map" and "Commemorative Replica Hard Ticket"

      Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit Grand Roof 2F Special Venue, 1F Information Center, Daimaru Tokyo Store, 1F

      Nihonbashi Takashimaya 1F Front Information Center, Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Main Store 1F Lion Entrance Information Center

      Nihonbashi Information Center, Yaesu Underground Shopping Center Information Center on the 1st basement floor of Coredo Muromachi　

A scissors performance event by former station staff will also be held for a limited time.

A special Showa retro venue appears on the deck on the 2nd floor of the Grand Roof at Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit.

You can get an original mount that can store six kinds of hard tickets here, with a nostalgic candy store, with a table fukudai on tatami mats. A photo spot is also set up, and you can take pictures with the nostalgic ticket gate.

During the period, during the period, during the period limited (October 10, 12, 17, 18, 24, 31, November 1, 3, 11:00 to 19:00), the motif of the 6012 car No. 6012 in the form of the "yellow red band" in the Showa 30's.

A nostalgic scenery is revived on Chuo-dori, where Toden was actually running.

It is also fun to compare it with the photos of the Showa era posted on the "Walking Map", think about the transition of the cityscape, and immerse yourself in "Showa Retro" for a while.

"Shintomiza Ruins" is described on page 61 of "Monoshiri Encyclopedia".

　Shintomiza was a Kabuki theater that took over Morita-za, which was founded in 1660 in Kibikicho 5-chome (currently Ginza 6-chome, west side of Showa-dori).
　Morita-za was led by Kanya Morita for generations, moved to Asakusa Saruwaka-cho (currently Asakusa, Taito-ku) in 1843 (1843), and changed to "Morita-za" in 1858 (1858). . In 1872 (1872), Kanya Moritaza 12th generation moved to Shintomi-cho and was renamed Shintomi-za in 1875 (1875).
Shintomiza gathered famous actors such as Danjuro Ichikawa, Kikugoro Onoe, and Sadanji Ichikawa and performed aggressively. . The theater is a large-scale building with a modern style and is called "Tokyo's first theater", and there were many Kabuki officials living in the surrounding area, and the whole area was a play town.
　Until the Kabukiza opened in 1889 (1889), it was a central player in theater performances, but was destroyed by fire in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (1923).
　In the Nishiki-e of the Meiji era, you can see a large theater with picture signs lined up on the sea rat wall, indicating the prosperity of the past.

(Copied from wikipedia, the photo below shows around Meiji 15-16. All public domain confirmed)

　I often visit Kakaze, whose mother was a great play-like. For example,

On October 9, 1918, "We had lunch at Sanjumabori Kasuga and visited Matsu mat at Shintomiza backstage in the evening."

On October 13, 1918, "Look at Shintomiza with three geisha from Shintomi-cho"

On July 7, 1919, "Go to the night Shintomiza and watch the song of the rain night by Kido Okamoto"

On March 23, 1920, "Look at Shintomiza and return home."

　In addition, in the essay "Back of the Prison Station" (1909), I wrote as follows.

"(My mother) is born in Edo and likes a big play ... I will not forget. Being taken by my mother and embraced by a nanny, eating heavy eel rice at the piers of Hisamatsu-za, Shintomi-za, Chitose-za, etc. ... "(4-54)

　Hisamatsu-za and Chitose-za were renamed Meijiza in 1893, the former name of Meijiza (Monoshiri Encyclopedia; page 91).

　Junichirou Tanizaki wrote in the Diary for the Elderly, as a passage from the diary of Ukirisuke as follows. (Convert the original katakana to kana)

・・・ Who's job that made Tokyo today such a shallow turbulent city was all the people who called the countryside, a peasant, and a politician who did not know the goodness of Tokyo in the past. Isn't it? I guess everyone is the one who caught up in that beautiful river of Nihonbashi, Armor Bridge, Tsukijibashi, and Yanagibashi. Isn't it a kind of guy who doesn't know that there was an era when white fish swam on the Sumida River? If you die, you don't have to be buried somewhere, but I don't want to be buried in a land that has lost any connection to yourself. ・... Kyoto is the safest in any way. ・... If you get a rabbit buried in the corner Kyoto, people from Tokyo will come to play all the time. "Oh, this is the grave of the old man," he stood by the street and turned to one of incense stick. （19-139）

　This is, of course, Tanizaki's own feelings, but Tanizaki died at the age of 79 on July 30, 1965, and was buried at Kagaya Honenin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto.

　Since the diary of the old man was published in the magazine "Chuo Koron" from the month of 1966 to the May of 1962 issue, Nihonbashi should not have been covered by expressways yet. The above is lamenting the water pollution of the river, but it does not describe the destruction of the landscape.

 Nihonbashi in 1933 (Chuo-ku Tourism Association, the moving town)

Nihonbashi from Edogawa in 1957 (Chuo-ku Tourism Association, moving town) 

 Current Nihonbashi and Nihonbashi River (taken on October 18, 2015)