Nihonbashinakasu, like Nihonbashi Honmachi or Nihonbashi Ningyocho, does not have a "town" at the end, but it is a town name in Chuo-ku, Tokyo. There is no "Chome" in Nakashu. This is the only independent town name in the Nihonbashi area.
It seems that this Nakasu area and the other side of the Sumida River (Koto-ku) originally came and went by "Nakasu no ferry". It is now connected by Kiyosu Bridge. By the way, the names of Kiyosubashi were given from Kiyosumi-cho Fukagawa (currently Kiyosumi, Koto-ku) and Nakasucho, Nihonbashi-ku, both sides of the building at the time of construction.
Nakasu used to be literally Nakasu on the Sumida River. This area was also called "Mitsumata" (Mitsumata, etc.), but there seems to be various theories about which flow I pointed to and read so. In any case, it seems that it was "Nakasu" surrounded by the Sumida River, Hakozaki River, and Hamacho River.
The area where the Hamacho River pours into the Sumida River is called the "Hamacho Riverside", and the reclaimed reclaims the sandy reclaim leads to Hamacho, the Okawa Nakasu Shinchi is maintained, and it is called Tominagacho, and in the middle of the Edo period It seems that there was a time when it was bustling like a flower town.
After that, it seems that he returned to the shallows full of reeds due to repeated floods, etc., but in the Meiji era, landfills were reclaimed, and Masago-za was formed, making it an entertainment district where restaurants were crowded. However, this prosperity did not last for a long time, and it is said that it declined as early as the Taisho era.
Nakasu in the Edo period
The state of Nakasu during the Edo period can be imagined in the picture of Hiroshige Utagawa. This picture is one of Hiroshige's ten picture books depicting famous places in Edo. The lyrics in the upper right corner of the picture are written.
"North of Shinohashi, there is a teahouse in a long time ago, and its liveliness is not a fool. It's a sweeping place now, but it's a landscape of graceful snow."
I'm introducing it.
[Kotohiragu Shrine]
Kotohiragu Shrine is located on the northwest side of Kiyosubashi Bridge. Tamagaki, which surrounds the precincts, is engraved with many names of restaurants that can sneak that it was a entertainment district.
[Masago-za]
The stone monument at the site of the theater in Masago-za stands quietly in the planting beside the entrance of the apartment. This Masago-za is also known as a theater where Soseki Natsume's "I am Cat Deal" was adapted by Kaoru Osanai and performed as a play "cat". Next to the monument of "Masago-za Ruins", there is a stone slab written as follows in the inscription.
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Soseki Natsume's "I'm a Cat Deal" is
It was adapted by Kaoru Osanai.
Yobee Ii and others appeared.
At the site of Masago-za in Nakasu, Nihonbashi-ku.
1906 (Meiji 39)
From November 3rd to 30th
It was performed.
October 2003 lucky day
14th President of Waseda University
Takayasu Okushima
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[Mebashi]
The Hakozaki River was located between the town of Nakasu and the neighboring Hamacho. It was reclaimed in 1971 (1971), and now the capital height runs above the head, so you can see the remnants of the waterway trace.
On the Hakozaki River, there were two bridges, a man bridge and a woman bridge.
The commemorative plate embedded at the entrance of the apartment is engraved as follows.
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A man
Origin
A man
It's a long time when I look at Ii Mebashi
A child who goes over and over many times
Invited by the sound of the banner of Masago-za
You don't know what you do.
The Nakasu-style flow is
A fun voice boat happened to come
Evening, the dark night is a man bridge
I don't know if I'm going to go over with you
From Isamu Yoshii "Okawabata"
1927
According to the 1907 edition of Tokyo Anning, Nihonbashinakasu is Hamacho 3-chome.
An urban area built in Okawa in the southeast. The first year of Yasunaga, the first year of the year, was filled with three towns.
After gaining the ground, he retired from the first year of Shiga Kansei, called Mimata Tominaga-cho, and later with Nagisa Nagisa.
No,? A reed grassland or Shiga, buried again in 1886, the current town
The name is added.
At that time, Nakasu was a small island town, crossing the Hakozaki River between Hamacho and Hamacho.
And there were two bridges, a man bridge and a woman bridge.
Later, in the war of Showa, Otokobashi became the only burnt female bridge, but Hakozaki
It disappeared due to river reclamation and construction of highways.
Nyobashi November 1901 Bridge
Length 21, width 3 to 4
Expenses of 6595.70 yen
Then, in June 1929
Nakasu Youth Club Sho Yoshida
Nobuaki Yoshizawa
All the gifts
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