Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　Shirakiya Denbei is a long-established store that manufactures and sells Edo brooms.

It was founded in Ginza in the first year of Tenpo (1830) and then moved to Kyobashi.

Of course, Zashiki brooms have existed for a long time, but it was Denbei Shirakiya who started manufacturing and selling brooms as "Edo brooms".

　Until then, palms were common as materials for parlor brooms, but `` Edo brooms '' made from grass of brooms are perfect for living in tatami mats and tenement houses. It is said that it is easy to sweep quickly without putting effort.

"Edo Houki", which was created by evolving the traditional parlor broom and pursuing a well-balanced and light broom, is selected and knitted from a natural grass called Houki Morokoshi as a raw material, but the beauty of the knitting is It is also said to be "the best of Edo".

　Using natural materials, late-night cleaning can be done easily and easily around the area, ideal for tatami mats, can be used for carpets and pet hair removal, electricity costs are not charged, static electricity is not generated, etc. Sales are growing because they want to live.

However, in order to make a high-quality broom, it takes a lot of effort to produce and sort raw materials.
First of all, according to the sense of the craftsman's hands, the grass is sorted to about 20th grade according to the criteria such as "softness, stiffness, and fineness of the grass", and even skilled craftsmen can only do 3 to 5 pieces a day with a long pattern.

 
　Therefore, the finest "Edo Houki" is very expensive (higher than Dyson's vacuum cleaner), but in the case of "Edo Houki", if you use it about "5 years", the ears will decrease due to friction, and even if the ears are cut off, the stiffness will return and usability will return, so finally you can use it at the entrance.

　Of course, there are also small brooms for desks and dining tables, and small brooms for dust-free clothes.

　 
　What is interesting is that there is a "broom for praying for safe delivery" in Japan for more than a thousand years, there is a legend that the spiritual power of Shinto and Buddha dwells in the broom, and if the pregnant woman's stomach is beaten with a new broom, it will be safe.
I think it's shabby to give gifts to those who are about to give birth....。

　
　In addition, various brooms are displayed in the gallery.

http://www.edohouki.com/
1F, Hakuden Building, 3-9-8 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Toll-free number ： (0120) 375389 (Mina Garbage Hack)
TEL ： 03（3563）1771    FAX： 03（3562）5516
Business hours ： From Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 19:00 (Sunday, holiday)

 From March 20, at Tsukiji Namishi Inari Shrine, "Remnant Hina Shinto ritual" and "Doll decorations" have started.

"The Remnants of Hina Shinto ritual" <Hina doll Doll Memorial Festival>

From February 4th to March 18th, Hina doll Dolls will be accepted, and Hina doll Dolls will be displayed from March 20th to 27th, Shinto priesthood will hold a doll memorial festival and exorcise the day again.

The "doll decoration" is an exhibition period for carry-on dolls that will be seen by worshipers for a week before burning them up and will spare the remnants again.

Not only Hina doll but also stuffed animals, May dolls, Japanese dolls, foreign dolls and tools from Hina doll are available.

The dolls that have been cherished, the dolls that have been cherished, and colorful dolls brought in with the thought that they will not endure to throw them away are lined up around the ceiling large lion.

　The above part of "Kyoko no Ie" (published in 1959) is often cited as a description of Kachidokibashi, especially the opening and closing of bridges, but "Happiness Go Deho" (serialized in 1955, published in a book in 1956) is that the main character Mitsuko grew up in Tsukishima and works in a department store in Ginza.

＞Without knowing why, Mitsuko ate breakfast and left her mother alone and went to work. Every day, I walk from Tsukishima to Ginza on foot to save my footage.

　Mitsuko started crossing Kachidokibashi after buying a newspaper in Hashizume, thinking that she would read it again on the rooftop during work breaks.

　It's a sunny morning with no clouds. And the wind is whim. I left home earlier than usual, so no matter how much I walk, I can't afford it.

　Mitsuko stopped and looked at the mouth of the bridge, which had never been stopped.

　In front of the warehouse, the color of the rusted drums of the red rusted drums looked beautiful on the water shining in Asahi. On the pier on the shore of the fish bank on the other side, there was a beautiful red flag of the bonito boat. The estuary of the morning was full of energy, and from here and there, the sound of pompom steaming like the sound of heart beating with joy.

　Even to Mitsuko, there was a feeling of happiness.

・・・・・

・・... Mitsuko looked at the pier near the fish shore. From there, there was a record of the popular song of our bells, and a long row of verticals came from the bonito boat. I saw young people with rubber lengths, rubber front hooks, and white headbands. They seemed to have piled up glowing knives one by one, from their hands to hands, in the manner of bucket relays of air defense exercises, and piled them up in front of the warehouse. （８－363）

Today's Tsukiji Market as seen from the Tsukishima side of Kachidokibashi

＞If you go further south from Tsukishima and cross the bridge, it is out of the south of Tokyo. Harumi Wharf and Ifuna landfill. So until this time the international trade fair was opened.

　Goban's eyes are quiet streets, paved roads, small trees, new sidewalks ... If this much is in the middle of Ginza, Ginza will be able to join the world's top cities, Heaven, two things are like a sample of a portable shrine, and the sidewalk of the main street is such a splendid, and grassy landfill.

　The sky is so big. There was thin clouds in the sky, and the hem of the sky was swayed by the black smoke of ships and factories.　　　　（382）

Present Harumi

＞There is a large monument on the right side just before crossing Kachidokibashi. The back was a little lower, and the white lengwa building of the Kachidoki Bridge Changing Station looked into the river.

　Since the waiter is hard to appear, Toshio reads the inscription that is difficult to read with each other.

"Kachidoki Hashinoki

In the 1904 battle of the Imperial Army. In commemoration of the victory, the residents of Kyobashi will set up a ferryboat here, name it Kachidoki, and donate it to Tokyo City ... "(448)

　The inscription "Kachidokibashi Museum" (the substations have been renovated)

　Yukio Mishima's novel "Kyoko no Ie" was published in 1958 (1958) in the first issue of the magazine "Voice" until Chapters 1 and 2, followed by Shinchosha in 1959 (1959) the following year. Two books, "Part 1" and "Part 2" were published at the same time.

　At the beginning of this, there is a description of Kachidokibashi and its surroundings as shown below. 、

＞From a distance, you can see that cars are crowded around Kachidokibashi. I wonder if it was an accident, the collection said. However, I realized that it was time for the opening and closing bridge to rise. Shunkichi beat his tongue. He said, "Let's give up or get rid of the landfill. However, Natsuo and Kyoko wanted to see the bridge that they had never seen before, so they stopped the car in front of Kanari and went to see it all across the railway bridge. Shunkichi and the harvest have a somewhat uninterested face.

　The central part is a steel plate. Only that part opens and closes. Before and after that, the staff stood with a red flag, and a parked car was crowded. He was blocked by the chain of Ichijo at the end of the sidewalk. There were a considerable number of spectators, but when the traffic was blocked, there were listeners and on-sites who were selling oil.

　And the iron plate on the train track was black, shy, without putting anything on it. And a man saw it from both sides.

　In the meantime, the center of the steel plate began to swell. The part gradually raised his head and opened the cracks. The steel plate came up, and the railings of the steel on both sides, and the arches of the steel, with a dull light on the pillars, roughly up. Natsuo thought this movement was beautiful.

　When the steel plate is finally going to be perpendicular, the dents of the countless steel studs on both sides run down with thin smoke. The small shadows of countless steel studs on both sides gradually come into contact with the steel studs, and the shadows of the balustrade on both sides gradually distorted and moved. As soon as the steel plate became completely perpendicular, the shadow was also quiet. Natsuo raised his eyes and saw a gull over the pillars of the iron arch that fell down.

・・・・・・・・・・

　I've been waiting for a long time. ・・・・・

　The car crossed Kachidokibashi, passed the town of Tsukishima, and further crossed Reimeibashi. The flat wilderness was blue as far as the eye could see, and a wide grid-grained paved road. The sea breeze bumped my cheeks. Shunkichi stopped his car at the runway, which is located at the end of the U.S. military facility. A few poplars were shining in the sun on the other side of the U.S. （11－10）

Current Kachidokibashi

Today's Reimei Bridge

The Kabuki-za Theater in March
"The 5th generation Jakuemon Nakamura's name announcement"
I went to the night section.

Speaking of Kabuki actor's name announcement
It's a good thing.
I'll wait with excitement.

The picture of the stage is unfortunately
I can't show you on the blog, but I'm sorry
Kyoya's Shiba Sparrow Change
Focusing on the fifth generation Jakuemon Nakamura Takeshi
Mr. Yamashiroya (Sakata Tojuro), Mr.
Mr. Matsushimaya (Nizaemon Kataoka), Mr.
Koryoya (Matsumoto Koshiro) and others
There are famous actors from the east and west.
It was a gorgeous show.

In the evening part, the "mouth" is sandwiched.
"Kakuryoba", "Kinkaku-ji Temple" and "Sekisanu"
It's a gorgeous stage.
In particular, it is said to be one of the three princesses of Kabuki.
Performs Yukihime of Kinkaku-ji Temple
The beauty of Jakuemon-jo.
I was caught by my eyes.

The performance will be held on Sunday, March 27.
(In classical performing arts, "fire" included in the word "autumn" is reminiscent of a fire, and "Aki".

This is a kabuki performance that calls for a remarkable spring.

　Yukio Mishima's novel "Happiness Go Deho" was serialized in the Yomiuri Shimbun from June to November 1955, and a book was published in 1956 (1956). The main character's brother and sister (although it is finally revealed that blood is not connected) grew up in an old rented house in Tsukishima, and his sister works in a department store in Ginza, Tsukishima and Kachidokibashi often appear during his work.
　
　During the work, smuggling around Tokyo Bay and the Sumida River is depicted, but at that time Japan was under full protectionism and imported goods were subject to high tariffs, so smuggling goods at that time had many items such as watches and were mainly done by ships.
　
　There are the following descriptions in the beginning of the work.
　
＞Look at the telescope.
　On the right, you can see the moss moss moss green in Hamarikyu Park and the boat lining off the sea. The horizon is faintly cloudy.
　She changed the angle to the left.
　The complicated building looked like a piece of Oshie. The T hot spring building, its Mukamu T theater, and the green side of the green roof at Tsukiji Honganji Temple in Mukamu, look like a layered painting one after another. The scarce smoke of the large chimneys of the high T hot spring distorted the landscape of the distant port, like a shadow. The only thing you hear is the horn of a car that echoes and rises all over the valley of the building.
　Suddenly, the scorched point of the lens is fixed to the bridge that connects the fish shore, and clearly shows the willow at the side of the bridge and the self-turned car. But that's not what she wants to see. Turn the lens just a little to the left. On the outskirts of the roof of the fish riverbank, the quench of the bonded warehouse on the opposite bank of Kachidokibashi looked like him. （8－352）
　
　There is a store in N department store, but it is unknown whether Matsuya, Mitsukoshi or Matsuzakaya.　Since Matsuzakaya is under construction, we examined the view from the roof of the current Matsuya and Mitsukoshi department stores.
　
　Even if you look at the Sumida River from the roof of Matsuya, you can hardly see the view as follows. You can barely see the top of the St. Luke's Tower.

　From the 12th floor of Mitsukoshi, you can see the East Drama Building, but you can't see Hamarikyu or Tsukiji Honganji.