Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

It's getting running low this year too. For those who are related to Chuo-ku, various memories will surely be mixed.

 

When Christmas is over, we're preparing for the New Year. It's a busy year for cleaning up, preparing New Year's dishes, and busy. And how would you like to spend New Year's Eve? People who are busy preparing for the New Year until the end, those who work during the year-end and New Year holidays, and those who spend a relaxing time ... each day looks back on the year.

  

Speaking of New Year's Eve, there are many people who eat "New Year's Eve soba". Originally, "New Year's Eve" means "Setsubun", which means that on this day we prayed for sound health and ate auspicious soba. In the lunar calendar, early spring was the New Year, so the previous day's Setsubun was probably the most important thing. Later, the last day of December became "New Year", and it became established throughout the country with the introduction of the solar calendar. Nowadays, it's a feature of New Year's Eve along with the "bell of night removal".

 

Actually, there is another important traditional event on New Year's Eve. This is to visit great exorcism at the shrine. It is an important ceremony that removes everyday filth and entrusts wishes for the New Year together with "Nago Shinohara" on the eve of June. It has been held since the days of Nara and Heian. On this day, we will go through the Chinowa, which will cause trouble, and cleanse ourselves. And they dedicate a doll (persongata) by entrusting them to remove the filth on their behalf.

In the first place, the meaning of visiting a shrine is to express appreciation for everyday blessing and to remove mistakes and filth of the body. It is said that it is not a sudden wish.

In this sense, great exorcism may be more meaningful than new year worshipping.

 

There are also a number of shrines in Chuo-ku that perform this ceremony. In my case, I've been involved in this event at [Nazuki Shrine], [Tetsugunsu Inari Shrine] and [Koami Shrine]. All of them were wrapped in the dignity and strictness cultivated in history and tradition, and I felt somewhat tight.

 

 

Why don't you visit a nearby shrine at the end of the year? Unlike the crowded grounds of new year worshipping, you can visit slowly.

Well, thank you very much for your help this year. I hope you have a good year.

 

 

 

　On December 19, for the third consecutive year, "I came to listen to chorus by students of St. Luke's College of Nursing.

Everyone rushed during the daytime break in the rain and healed the people who visited with a clear chorus.

There are four songs that sang: "Elderly People", "Saint Night", "Akahana no Nakai", and "Santa came to town".

 
It was a really fun time when my heart was washed. Thank you for the wonderful song present.

Merry Christmas to you　

  
By the way, the mini health course is by dental hygienists Mayumi Takimoto and Keiko Sugiyama

The lecture was "Healthy longevity is from your mouth", and the subtitle was "Tooth energy, bone energy, brain energy".

 
According to the relationship between the number of remaining teeth and the total medical expenses, if the number of remaining teeth is large, the total medical expenses will be reduced.

People with healthy gums and people with more than 20 teeth are about 200,000 yen.

It was introduced that people with low teeth and diabetes cost about 310,000 yen.

　Also, in the talk about the relationship between the number of residual teeth and dementia, we are talking about the relationship between dementia.

When the teeth are low, the irritation that the chewing exercise does not have to the brain, so it is easy to develop dementia.

I've been listening seriously to the importance of keeping the oral cavity clean and to clean my tongue.

　

　

　I was told that the exercise was also important, and decided to do it every day immediately.

Well, this year is a little more.　Keep your precious teeth and mouth clean, eat delicious food, and have a good New Year.

　「Click here for information on "Rukanabi". http://www.kango-net.jp/project/15/

 

 

 

 

It was Thursday, November 28, but my work was off in the afternoon, so I visited the Doburoku Festival at Koami Shrine.

 

The Doburoku Festival is an event derived from the Niiname-no-Matsuri that appreciates the good harvest of new grains, and the Doburoku is served free of charge after being offered to God. The event will include the dedication of the national important village kagura dance in Intangible Folk Cultural Property, the lucky charm of protection against misfortune, and the award of the Shitamachi Mimizuku.

I was already calm because of the time being out of time, and I visited and had a doburoku. That said, it was a little gorgeous atmosphere in the music.

 

Koami Shrine is a small shrine located on a small site, but it has attracted attention as a festival in portable shrine in May, a festival in November, and a shrine in Fukurokuju and Benzaiten in Nihonbashi Seven Lucky Gods. It is an indispensable part of annual events around Ningyocho. The small shrine between the buildings has a very interesting structure. In front of the photo below, there is a little shrine hall in the back of the torii gate, a new shrine office on the left, a warehouse on the first floor, and a pentagonal Kagura Hall on the right.

 

After completing the worship by hooking the doburoku, the downtown shopping street in Ningyocho spreads very close. The weather was so good that the cold had eased, but I felt so relaxed and wanted to stop by. However, it will be a different theme, so I would like to rewrite the times.

 

 

　Thankfully, since I started living in Chuo-ku, I have more opportunities to connect with people from different industries. There are many encounters with people involved in Chuo-ku, and it is very fresh to know new things. 

　One day in September, when I was invited to an event that was suddenly changed to indoor BBQ due to the typhoon, participants started introducing themselves and said, "Is it an interesting place in the neighborhood? House? There is a discovery ... ", and I made time at a later date and toured the room.

<The shape of a new way of life and life>

"Share house" has been used to in the past few years. Shared House is intended to share a house and live together. On the other hand, the social business lab (SBL), which was introduced this time, was aimed at creating a new social business, and it was a new way of life and life that I could live together for those who do everything. In addition, it seems that there is also a cheap rental space for people working on social business to get together and try it out.

<Concept of SBL>

By creating a cheap rental space in the city center, SBL aims to provide a place for activities for those who work for society, and to create a new social business through matching and interaction between those who use the space.

<The trigger for launching SBL>

It is the village of an NPO artist who operates SBL. Although I started working with the artist's village, I couldn't have an office and had a hard time securing a place to meet, so not only myself but also those who have just started the activity I started to create a place where everyone could gather. In addition, it seems that this place has begun, with the idea of sharing the house and space together.

<Overview of SBL>

Living space for those who want to do everything on the 5th and 4th floors

1st and 3rd floors Rental space where people working for society gather (500 yen / H)

※The second floor is an office of another company.

<Residents of SBL>

Those who are currently occupying are hot people with aspirations.

Michio Yunoki, the representative of the "Artist Village", is the person who created this place, and he wants to move in and do it thoroughly.

What is an artist's village?＞

In the artist's village, we aim to bring together people who are active in various fields to realize "I wish I had something like this."

https://www.facebook.com/geijyutukanomura

http://social-artist-village.org

<I've covered in detail>

By the way, as for the actual building, a five-story building with a roof near the entrance of the Metropolitan Expressway "Hakozaki". It is an old-fashioned building in a residential area, but the inside has been renovated. The most worrisome part of communal living (the only one I think?) The latest models were installed around the toilets, washrooms and bathrooms, and the impression was clean and very comfortable, but the inner wall still had the quaint sand wall as it was originally.

 

The first floor, which was originally a store, has a sense of openness, and plans to use it as an atelier or event space. He said he wanted to do something like marche and make it a place where people could easily interact with local people.

 

The third floor was a floor that could be used for offices and seminars, and we had everything we needed for meetings, such as desks, chairs, whiteboards, projectors, Wi-Fi. I'm grateful that the usage fee can be reduced at a low fee (500 yen / H) together.

 

The 4th to 5th floors are living floors (4 rooms in total).

 

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　Personally, the most worrisome thing is the atelier space on the first floor, when I asked how to use it from outside, for example, I learned pottery as a hobby, but I exhibited my own work It can also be used as a general gallery for sale. Basically, it is free to use, but if you can consult with us, "Can you use it like this?", You will be able to discuss together and propose specific ideas. If you think so, there is no limit to the possibility of the user. I imagine that it would be fun if there was a gallery that was gradually opened to various generations, easy to enter and feel close to each other, from a gathering of people who knew it. 

　There is a homepage, and you can check the usage status of the first and third floors from there, and you can make a reservation.

http://social-business-lab.org

https://www.facebook.com/social.business.lab

　By the way, it is a living space, but it is said that one room is still open. If you are interested, why not contact us via Facebook earlier or from [email protected]?

　Some people have said, "Please come and play anyway!" I hope that people from diverse backgrounds will gather, and I hope that my neighbors will be able to engage with little effort so that this SBL will become a place to transmit new things not only to Chuo-ku but also to all over Japan and overseas.

 

 

 

The second installment of wholesaler release information is sales to amateurs at companies that manufacture and wholesale ties and other products.

This is an introduction to the following.

The company is Horikoshi tie Co., Ltd. located in 1-chome, Higashi-Nihonbashi.

　　　　　　　

For less than 70 years since its founding, Horikoshi has been working on ties by overcoming the wave of Cool Biz and overcoming the wave of Cool Biz. It seems that all the original brand ties of a major supermarket are made by Horikoshi.

We usually open showrooms for professional buyers, as well as our own ties, mufflers, and pocket-chiefs.

Import brands such as Ferragamo Armani are also available.

The price, including import, is almost half of the market price.

In this way, there is no problem with the quality of the sale where the wholesaler opens his own store, so you can shop with confidence.

Continuing from last year, I bought a tie and pocket cuff again this year.

It's a bargain from fashionable import brands to ties that can be a company every day.
The products we handle are specialized for men, so how about women as gifts?

Horikoshi tie Co., Ltd.
　　1-4-2, Higashinihonbashi, Chuo-ku
　　03-3863-1601
　　
　　Family sale period: Until Saturday, December 14 <It has already started>
　　Open time　 ：    From 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM　
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    URL: http://www.horikoshi.co.jp/