Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Cold weather continues this year. There were several snows in Tokyo. The snow on January 22 was reported to be the first heavy snowfall in four years, and on TV, Tokyo people who were unfamiliar with snow and cars standing up were projected.

　

I remember that the heavy snowfall four years ago was also very difficult. At that time, I'm taking a cold picture.

　

February 15, 2014. This day is the day of the 6th Chuo-ku Tourism Certification. After finishing my first test, I wanted to see the snow scenery of Kiyosu Bridge over the Sumida River from a distance, and walked on the Sumida River Terrace in Koto-ku, opposite Chuo-ku.

　

If you look at this picture, a certain event will come back to my head.

　

　

The other day, I walked along the Sumida River, following the memories of four years ago.

　

　

The snow continued from Valentine's Day the day before to midnight. On the morning of the test day, I was worried about the amount of snow I had accumulated, but I wanted to see the snow scenery of the Sumida River that I couldn't see much. .

　

The test site is the Royal Park Hotel in front of Suitengu, Chuo-ku. At that time, I lived in Koto-ku, so I decided to stop going by subway, walk across the Sumida River, and head to the venue.

　

There are a number of bridges that can be walked from Koto-ku to Chuo-ku, but the bridge that looks like snow is Kiyosu Bridge.

Kiyosu Bridge was built during the reconstruction of the Great Kanto Earthquake. While the Eitai Bridge on the same Sumida River is said to be masculine, Kiyosu Bridge is considered feminine because of its elegance, and is said to be "flowers of reconstruction after the earthquake" or "a lady of Sumida River".

　

Kiyosu Bridge is covered with snow. I imagined a beautiful white Kimono-like appearance and decided to go to this bridge.

　

　

However, the incarnation of Kiyosu Bridge was more than I imagined. Indeed, the "Snow Queen" like a Disney movie that became popular this year.

　

When he came to the side of the bridge, the Snow Queen immersed the hole in the drain with the snow that had been poured into ice and made the long sidewalk of the bridge into a puddle of ice. It's more than 20 centimeters deep, maybe about 80 meters long.

　

The Snow Queen stood like a castle gate. Rather than taking the test, it was the first gate that it was difficult to cross to Chuo-ku. He hesitant to cross over and over, stop taking the test, and think about returning.

　

　

Time is getting closer and closer.

Various thoughts were mixed, but "Let's cross!" 。 I will decide to step into the road to Chuo-ku.

　

The ice lake across the gods is a Valentine's Day from the Queen of Snow. And he went on to the world beyond the bridge, killing his breath.

　

　

I took the test with my legs frozen. I don't remember much, but I only remember that there were many vacant seats.

　

　

The ice path at that time was painful, but now I think it's a very memorable present.

After the exam was over, I got a feeling that I could become a correspondent, and I looked at Kiyosu Bridge from a distance, probably for the report. That cold photo is a piece that reminds me of that time.

　

　

　

By the way, Mr. Kiyosu Bridge with such memories is now being recolored. This is a work to replace the highly decorative lighting fixtures that decorate the bridge with those designed at the time of construction.

　

Even today's decorative lighting is very good. I think it is often thought of with a design incorporating curves. It seems to have been changed to this design one day, and as far as you can see the old photos, this decoration has been attached for about 30 to 40 years.

　

　

However, Kiyosu Bridge is a suspension bridge that has been designated as a national important cultural property, and its design philosophy is highly evaluated.

　

From the beginning of construction, a civil engineering heritage designed with the image of a woman in contrast to a powerful masculine Eitai Bridge.

So this construction is a recoloration that will return to the figure based on the design philosophy. The same color modification is being carried out at Eitai Bridge.

(A part of the design that changes this time. In the Hashizume River of Kiyosu Bridge

The lighting of this design is left in the form of a monument.　

　

　

　

With the reconstruction of the Great Kanto Earthquake, many bridges were built over the Sumida River. However, the design is not the same as one.

　

Among those bridges, Kiyosu Bridge was the most expensive one. It is said that women would cost money, but that was the same on the bridge.

　

It was built to imitate the Great suspension bridge in Cologne, Germany at the time, but when the bridge was built, the view of the bridge seen from the Mannen Bridge on the Onagi River in Koto-ku was praised as "the view of Cologne."

　

Construction was completed in March 1928. We are celebrating the 90th anniversary of this milestone.

　

Mr. Kiyosubashi returns to his appearance 90 years ago. I'm looking forward to seeing you again.

　

 

 

　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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