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Extreme cherries in Higashine City, Yamagata Prefecture, a friendship city

[Nyan,] June 28, 2017 09:00

 Until now, cherries have been described as "amake" on anmitsu. Fruits that you can put in your mouth without any hesitation, saying that you are eating because it is wasteful.
Speaking of Western food, it is like parsley on a salad with a hamburger.
Speaking of vinegar pork, it doesn't matter if it's like pineapple, but it's attached for some reason ...

I have to scold myself who had such a feeling! We have to completely change our perception! What I thought was ...
No other, since I started eating carefully selected cherries made in Higashine City, Yamagata Prefecture, a friendship city of Chuo-ku.

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Some people may have seen the name of "Fruit Kingdom Higashine" by wrapping the community bus "Edo Bus" running in the city. I was worried about wrapping the Edo bus, so I participated in the "Higashine Sakurambo Marathon" (half marathon) held in Higashine City every June.

This running event in Higashine is a popular tournament that has been selected as one of the "100 Runnings". A lot of hospitality and hospitality are the secrets of the popularity, but the biggest feature is the enhancement of the "Cherry" aid provided on the way! While I was running, I greeted "the number of cherries I ate a day, the largest day in my history." The pace of eating as an excuse slows down, just remembers more than records. I was very satisfied with the time.

Cherry carefully selected among Higashine products. When you have beautiful shining fruits, the elegant sweetness spreads in your mouth with "puffy" elasticity and the subtle acidity that complements it. This is delicious. After all, the real thing is different.

It is said that small but rich fruits make full claims ... Is it like Chuo-ku in Tokyo! ?
Please try delicious cherries.

(The photo shows the Higashi Cherry Marathon. An unusual course layout that allows you to run through the SDF garrison. You can also enjoy talks with celebrities in the running world, Kin, World Championships medalist Chiba and Ogiwara. )

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◆ Prince Shingen and Danjuro Roman

[Sumida Fireworks] June 22, 2017 12:00

If you live in eastern Japan, you probably know Amanoya's Kabuki fried.

s_hanabi48-1.jpgIf you look at the back of this individual package, you can see that

It says, "This rice cracker has a round shape and a square shape."

 

It is said that Kabuki fried dough designed with round or square Kabuki regular patterns. It seems that it began to fry softly with the times, and the pattern became invisible. The square attached to the individual package is one of Kabuki's regular crests, and is called "Mimasu".

 

 

On the other hand, this is "Sodegaura Naka" of the long-established Shiose Sohonke in Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, famous for buns.

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In the middle of Sodegaura, it is unusual, and the skin in the middle and anko are separate. When you eat it, you can combine it with excitement and enjoy a crispy texture. It is said that it was devised by Danjuro Ichikawa, the ninth generation of the Meiji era, and is also known as "Danjuro Naka". The package "Sansho" is a regular crest of the Danjuro Ichikawa family.

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Speaking of the ninth generation Danjuro, Kabuki actor in an article I wrote in February through the Booklet of 1932. This booklet, whose cover is designed with a regular crest of "Sansho", is from the 9th generation Danjuro 30th anniversary exhibition at Kabukiza in 1932.

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1932. This year seems to have been a turning point for the Ichikawa Soke family. This is the year when the birth of the Danjuro Ichikawa family was elucidated by Sansho Ichikawa at that time (Sansho, the name of the 10th generation Danjuro after his death).

 

The booklet contains the origin of the Danjuro family. It is Koshu's theory that Danjuro's ancestors were samurai who served under the Takeda family in the Warring States period.

 

There are still various theories about the origin of the Danjuro Ichikawa family. The Koshu theory seems to have existed for a long time, but it was in 1932 that a family tree supporting it was discovered.

 

The birthplace of Danjuro Ichikawa is Ichikawa Misato-cho, Yamanashi Prefecture. I learned that there is Kabuki Bunka Park there, and when I visited Yamanashi Prefecture for cherry blossom viewing in April, I stopped by.

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Kabuki Bunka Park is located on a hill with a wonderful view overlooking the Kofu Basin, and during the Warring States period, there was the castle of Shinryu Ichijo (the younger brother of Shingen), who was the lord of the Takeda family. The ancestors of the Danjuro family seem to have been taken up by this man.

 

In this park, there is a museum and a memorial to Ichikawa Danjuro departures. In the 1980s, this monument was built when Ebizo at the time named the 12th generation Danjuro. It seems that the wish of the teens and eleventh generation Danjuro, who could not fulfill all the time, was fulfilled at this time.

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If you combine the contents of the booklet in 1932 with the information obtained at the museum, the Koshu theory up to the first Danjuro was described.

 

The ancestors of the Ichikawa family were Juro Horikoshi, a samurai of the Kai Kunitakeda family.

He gained martial arts in the battle of Mimase Pass, and was given a place of knowledge near the castle of Shinryu Ichijo.

After the fall of the Takeda family, he relied on Acalanatha, which the clan worshiped, to seek salvation from Narita Fudoson, and moved to Hataya-mura, Hanyu-gun, Shimousa-kuni (near Naritasan) to become a peasant.

His grandson went to Edo and lived in Izumi-cho (now near Ningyocho, Chuo-ku) and claimed to be Juzo Hataya.

Juzo made a man, and the child was named Ebizo.

Nakamura-za and Ichimura-za were located in the neighboring town of Izumi-cho, so he began to immerse himself in the play and became an actor named Dan Ichikawa.

He founded the acting style of "Arashi", which shows using exaggerated expressions such as kumatori and mie, changed his name to Danjuro, and became a leader in Edo Kabuki.

 

That's the flow, but what was interesting here was the explanation board that describes the regular crest of "Sansho". There seems to be various theories about Sansho's regular crest.

 

In the 1932 booklet, we have published this report.

"When the first Danjuro worked for Fuwa Shozaemon, the regular crest was changed to Sansho when he used costumes sewn with lightning and Sansho."

It says that it is different, but the explanation board of the park says.

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The Sansho's crest is designed with three large, medium, and small "masu" nested in.

 The middle basin is ... one sho of "Kyomasu" (1 sho of rice = 10 go),

 The small masu is a 5-go Kyomasu (half-masu), a masu.

 The large masu is the Shingen masu, which is worth 3 square meters.

That's right.

 

It is an explanation that when the Shingen Masu, also known as Sansho Masu or Koshu Masu, is combined with the two Kyo Masu, it becomes a beautiful "Sansho" crest. It is said that this confirms that the origin of Danjuro was Koshu.

 

In addition,

"Because the square of the Sansho family crest resembles the word Danjuro Dan."

"I was more and more prospered (Masu Masumasu Hansho)."
It's written in various ways, and even if you look for it online, you can find it.

"Derived from the name of the battle of Mimase Pass, where Danjuro's ancestors achieved martial arts"

That's what I mean.

s_hanabi48-8.jpg"I went to Mt. Narita because Shingen worshiped Acalanatha."

"The roughness of the storm was born from the Koshu dialect."

"The name of Ebizo was born when Takeda's red armor resembles a shrimp with red shells."

And Danjuro Roman, which is related to Prince Shingen, appears in various ways when you look for it.

 

 

I was surprised that Danjuro was involved in Shingen, but I was surprised at the number of historical romances that have been created so far because of the many mysteries.

 

Originally located in Shingen, the romance of Danjuro overlapped with the great romance of the Warring States period, and I think that the romance spread further, but seeing and hearing what various people have studied and imagined in this way I felt that it was one of the pleasures of history.

 

 

 

The story behind the Kyodai Shoran

[yaz] June 10, 2017 09:00

The other day, I heard a lecture by Hiroshi Ozawa, a former director of the Urban History Research Office of the Edo Tokyo Museum and a visiting professor at Shukutoku University's Faculty of Humanities, entitled "Kidai Shoran 200 Years Ago". I thought it would be better to write before the impression of the content of the audit diminished, so I chose it because there were other blogs and stories. Here are some interesting information that you can't get on Wikipedia.

 

In 2000 AD, Japanese picture scrolls were exhibited at the Berlin Orient Museum of Art (now the Berlin National Asian Art Museum) in Germany. It was a picture scroll called "Kyodai Shoran" depicting Nihonbashi Street 200 years ago. It is unknown when this picture scroll went to Germany, but it was one of the collections deposited by Professor and his wife Custell of the Free University of Berlin.

 

After that, the Kidai Shoran returned to Japan in January 2003, and was exhibited for the first time at the Oedo Yaohachicho Exhibition, a special exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the opening of the Edo Tokyo Museum in Tokyo. In January 2006, he returned to the Mitsui Memorial Museum's Hall Memorial special exhibition II "Nihonbashi Emaki Exhibition", and in November 2009, a reproduction picture scroll of Hirodai Shoran began to be displayed on the west side of the concourse (Mitsukoshi side) underground at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Tokyo Metro. Honen I was able to actually see the Kidai Shoran at the special exhibition "Edo and Beijing -18th Century City and Living" of the Edo Tokyo Museum held from February 18 to April 9.

 

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The picture scroll of Kidai Shoran depicts the west side of approximately 7 towns (760m) on Nihonbashi-dori (Chuo-dori) from Nihonbashi to Kanda Imagawa Bridge in a bird's-eye view. It depicts 88 stores and people, dogs, horses, cows, monkeys, hawks, and vividly depicts the daily lives of Edo samurai, townspeople, Buddhist monk, and beggars. It describes the cityscape before it was burned down in the second year of culture (1805), the year before the Great Fire of Heitora. The title is "Kidai Shoranten", so it seems that there were other volumes of "ground" and "people". It's one of the three volumes.

 

What was written in the volume of "ground" and "people"? For example, one of the scrolls may have depicted the east side of Nihonbashi Street (opposite Mitsukoshi). If it existed, I would have found detailed information about "Nagasakiya and Holland House, Bell of Time" which I am interested in. Or there seems to be a story that the direction of Kanda at the end of Imagawa Bridge is written. If this is discovered somewhere, it is a great discovery.

 

Dogs, horses, cows, etc. are also written, and you can clearly understand the life of the Edo period.

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At the end of the Kidai Shoran, a high bill of Nihonbashi is drawn. There are three letters (actuals).

The first is the official document issued by the magistrate in May 1711, Masatokumoto (1711).

* I want to be a parent and child brothers and couples and other relatives, and I should be able to reach the subordinates. What the masters should do in each direction

* You must not be overdoing everything, without spending your family business exclusively.

* To do something that should be harmed or unreasonable;

* A ban on all kinds of hammering

* He humbled his argument, and he should not meet him at any young time. It's something that you don't have to put your hands on ...

The second is the prohibition of the Christian sect, and the third is the law concerning guns in 1721.

The contents of the "Odosho" are words that can be used not only in the Edo period but also in the present day. The celebrity II, who is arrested for dragging and exploding, feels painful. Why don't you put a "high bill" in front of the entertainer's house?

 

Reference: Tokyo City Guide Club First Seminar 2017: 200 years ago, Lecturer Shigemori Nihonbashi Hiroshidai Shoran Former Director of Urban History Laboratory, Edo Tokyo Museum, Visiting Professor Hiroshi Ozawa, Faculty of Humanities, Shukutoku University 

 

 
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