Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

During the Edo period, this area seemed to have been the site of the Echizen Kuni Fukui feudal lord Matsudaira Echizen Mamoru.

The mansion was surrounded by moats on three sides.
It seems that this was called "Echizenbori".

It seems that the revetment of Echizen moat was masonry.

In the Meiji era, moats were gradually buried.

After the Great Kanto Earthquake, most of them were completely buried after the war.

The name of the town is Shinkawa and continues to this day.

On September 8th, one of the twenty-four season old calendar's "White Dew", it is said that "the autumn season will gradually join from this time", but the remaining heat seems to last for a while. However, it seems to be a little cooler in the morning and evening. ・・ ・ At this time, when the work is settled down and relieved, I still want the sweet taste. This time, we will introduce Japanese sweets that are perfect for relaxing tea time, matcha, green tea, black tea, and coffee.

The confectionery shop "Umekatei" is a long-established store founded in Otemmacho in 1850 and is one of the Toto Norenkai member stores.
By the way, there are five "Japanese sweets" shops that belong to the Toto Goodwill Association, three of which are located in Chuo-ku.
Tomoe Mochizuki is the seventh generation. The founder created North and South America Manju, the first baked confectionery in Kaei 6 (1853), in which Japanese confectionery was baked in a pot like a current bread kettle. Folding became a very hot topic in the year when Perry arrived, and it was a big hit. The second generation created "Gong-yaki" (revived from 1998), the sixth generation devised "Umemonaka", and the "Buran Nishi Manju", which was baked with meringue on the skin with black bean paste.
The founder said that he was "a love of inherent new things and an unrivaled sweet thing." As a result, it is surprising that all of them are long-selling products that have continued to this day.

I had a bun in North and South America after a long time at three o'clock. I heard that it was "the prototype of chestnut bun", but it was good quality, good sweetness and good quality. "I want customers to enjoy a pleasant space" and "Elegance in common people" are the legends of the shop. While feeling the mystery that we can get sweets created in the late Edo period for nearly 160 years, and the weight of the continuation of long-established stores, I was reminded of the transition of history for a while.

 

North and South America buns, French Ransai buns, and gongs.

The bean paste is sandwiched on a thin skin as if it was pressed on a gong and baked.

Shinkawa 2-chome, where Meikatei is located, was formerly called Reigishima, and it is said that the name of the place was derived from the establishment of Reigonji Temple in the place where the Honorable Reikijin reclaimed the reed field in 1624. . Reigonji Temple spread by the great fire of the Meiryaku era (1657), and was later rebuilt in the current Shirakawa, Koto-ku in 1658. It is known that there are many graves of Sadanobu Matsudaira and Daimyo here. The historically venerable place names are becoming more and more difficult, and this "Rei Kishijima" is not present now, but for those who like history and era novels, Yasunaga-do of Hiroshige Utagawa's "53rd Tokaido" You may know that there was a residence in Zuiken Kawamura. It is said that Meikatei was closely related to the place name so that it was called "Speaking of Reigishi Island" at that time. I still saw that he was so particular that he was described as (formerly Reigishima) on the address of the shop.

I found that I was using the name "Reigishi Island" on my way home.

It seems to be a relatively new building called "Regishijima Disaster Prevention Center", but I was somewhat happy and took a picture.

There is also a monument to Yasubee Horibe in Chushingura across the Kameshima Bridge.

More North and South America buns of the confectionery master Umekatei (formerly Reigishi Island)