Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　Finally, at the end of the year, it is Yagenbori's year-old city that retains the remnants of Edo from the 27th to 29th. Did you know that "Saizo City" stood in Nihonbashi Yokkaichi on the 28th of the same day during the Edo period?

　　"Mikawa Manzai descends to Edo and gathers at Minamizume in Nihonbashi on the night of the end of every year's extreme month (Shiwasu), and embraces Saizo. This is Saizo City Toifu ("Edo Famous Zoukai")

　Oh, it's fun, fun, and the house is full of happiness ...

　In Mikawa Manto, two people, "Tayu" with both swords on folding crow hats and hemp sliding doors, and "Saizo" with a drum, go around the houses from New Year's Day and match the drums hit by Saizo. It was a blessing that was indispensable for the New Year's mood, where they sang and received a celebration rice coin.

　Tayu came from Mikawa, which is related to the Tokugawa family, and hired Saizo in Edo. Saizo City was the market that chose the favorite person from the migrant migrants mainly from the Boso area and hired them to the other side.

　Yokkaichimachi was located on the southern shore of the Nihonbashi River, between Nihonbashi and Edobashi, around 1-7-10, 18-19 of Nihonbashi today. (Edobashi at that time was closer to the east than it is now.)　Hirokoji was formed after the Great Fire of the Meiryaku era (currently near the Nihonbashi Post Office), and Dotegura was set up on the banks, and to the west of Edobashi, the Kisarazu Riverside, where Kisarazu departure and arrival boats depart and depart (currently Mitsubishi Warehouse and Nomura Securities). Did the Saizos coming from Boso arrive here by boat?

　It is this Saizo city, but it seems that it disappeared as the times went down.

　"After Tenpo, it has already been abolished, and Mansai (= Tayu) and Saizo are promised next year and separated. ・・ ・ Because that is an example of this time, Banzai did not have to choose Saizo each time. " (Kido Okamoto, "Mikawa Manzai")

[Left photo]　Take the Edobashi area from Nihonbashi Minamizume

[Photo right]　Edobashi Minami Intersection, from left to right now Edobashi, Mitsubishi Warehouse, Nihonbashi Post Office

 

 

Get off at Shin-Nihonbashi Station, the first station from Tokyo Station on the JR Sobu Main Line, and go to the ground from Exit 4.

There is a Muromachi 3-chome intersection where Chuo-dori and Edo-dori St. intersect.

To the intersection, a signboard of the Chuo-ku Board of Education is posted immediately on the right side of the exit.

 

"Chuo inhabitant of a ward cultural property Nagasakiya trace"

What kind of place was Nagasakiya?

 

There is an "old man" who knows anything wasteful.

"That's not. Echen.

It dates back to the Edo period, but Nagasakiya was the residence where Dejima's chief Dutch trading post came to Edo shogunate to greet him.

"It's strange that foreigners were in Edo because they were supposed to have been 'seclusion' in the Edo period."

It's not impossible to think so. For she writes that she closes the country with a chain.

It was a policy that feared the spread of Christianity, which was contrary to the authority of the Shogunate, and that foreign daimyo could accumulate power in trade.

 

But the door was only a little open to the world, even when it was called isolation.

Edo shogunate permitted trade in Dejima only in the Netherlands.

On the other hand, the Netherlands monopolized Western trade with Japan.

So, Mr. Dutch trading post regularly came to Edo to thank him.

At that time, I was staying at Nagasakiya, a drug wholesaler.

Because of the handling of imported drugs, it would have been tied to the lodging house.

 

There is a picture on the signboard.

It's a picture called Nagasakiya "Eimoto Toyu" drawn by Katsushika Hokusai.

There are two or three red-haired people wearing a foreign hat in the mansion.

What are you talking about? The words spoken by distant foreign people and the sounds of the instruments they brought may have flowed to the street.

From the street, the people were looking at the inside of the mansion.

The samurai of the two-legged and the townspeople of the tail. The landlady dressed in a stylish kimono. The fathers who carried the child are depicted.

From the background of the era of isolation, I think that security around the mansion was also severe, but from the picture, the curiosity of the Edo people is transmitted more than tension.

 

Around the end of the Tokugawa period, those who had a compelling desire for Western technology, culture, and information may have also wrapped their mansions.

It is said that many celebrities such as Genpaku Sugita and Gentaku Otsuki appeared in textbooks on Japanese history have visited.

 

It is also said that the Netherlands had submitted to the Shogunate a report summarizing the world situation, called the Dutch-style Theory.

The old and middle bureaucrats of the Shogunate seemed to have known about the arrival of Kurofune quite early through these.

 

Nagasakiya was a "window of the world" that existed close to the people of Edo as a place for exchange with foreign cultures.

Here, Honishicho 3-chome in Edo, near 4-2 Nihonbashi Muromachi, is the trace. "

"Grandfather," leaves with a lingering finish.

 

A city where historical sites remain because it was the political and cultural center of Japan. The neighborhood of Nihonbashi Muromachi.

Why don't you look for an information board at the end of the year and the beginning of the year?

 

 

 

 　From December 15th to 26th, the ECO EDO Nihonbashi Executive Committee sponsored and co-sponsored by the Nihonbashi Preservation Society of Nabashi, and the "Nonse Nihonbashi 2010-ECO EDO Nihonbashi Green Project-" is being held as last year.

This event was supported by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to raise awareness and spread of "green electricity" generated from renewable energy that does not emit CO2 such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass. (Developed at 106 facilities nationwide)

At this event, the Mitsui Main Building and the Main Building of the Bank of Japan Main Building, which are important cultural properties, will be lit up with green lighting using the Green Power Certificate. A system in which a premium is paid by purchasing a "Green Power Certificate" (a certificate that can trade another value other than the value of the electricity itself owned by a green power company <=environmental added>) from a company that produces renewable energy. It is said to be one of the methods of granting green energy.

At 17:00 on December 15th, a lighting ceremony was held in front of the Mitsui Main Building on Edo Sakura-dori St., and Historic buildings was illuminated by a fantastic green light along with the singing voice of the classic a Capella group AURA.

This event is based on the philosophy of "ECO EDO Nihonbashi", "conveying the spirit of symbiosis between people and nature, and aiming for a recycling-oriented society." It is said that it is also part of the activities of the Nihonbashi Revitalization Plan, in which the public, private and local communities work together to revitalize the region and create new attractions for the city based on the concept of "creating while reviving."

 

          

                     

 

 

 

Blog of Chuo-ku Tourism Association: http://blog.nihon-kankou.or.jp/kankoublog/JTA13102.php The illumination information is also posted.

In this "Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog", photos of Christmas trees in Chuo-ku are posted every day!

Christmas is right in front of you!

I met such Santa who was hiding in the shadow of the gorgeous Christmas tree!

I came in the show window of the illumination spot "MIKIMOTO" at 4-chome in Ginza! !

 

No, the main subject this time is [Rikishi Seal], when you forget, "Oh, here!"

I've been introducing you several times since last year ...

This time, I discovered it at Sakura-dori St. in Nihonbashi.

From Chuo-dori toward Yaesu...

 

In front of Nihonbashi Plaza Building

Please pay attention to the center on the right side of the photo.

 

Take the same street further toward Yaesu. Please pay attention to the side of the L-shaped gutter left from the center of the photo.

I used to go well ... Was it pasted recently?

I was happy to meet you again in December this year.

 

 

　Today is the second restaurant tour that is a member of the Chuo-ku Tourism Association.

Speaking of Taimeiken, it is a very common restaurant founded in 1931.

Who wrote the store's Lego?　Are you a disciple of Mr. Torii?

Is the heat of the frying pan expressed? Do you feel like it's a glimmering flame?

 

　Before opening the restaurant from 11:00, the 5th floor of the same building with the same opening time.

I went to the "Kite Museum".　Please drop in before and after the meal.

 

　Here, "Tako = Kite" from all over the world is on display. Admission fee ¥200

Every year, we cooperate in holding the “Children's Takoage Tournament !!” at Hamacho Park.

The next event will be held at Hamacho Park on January 4, 2011 (2011).

　It began with the topic of kites, but the main purpose of Taimeiken was Taimeiken.　

We received the classic restaurant, the original omelet, coleslaw, and boursch.

After all, it was a traditional taste.　The people around me were also talking with a smile. HP↓

　http://www.taimeiken.co.jp/

 

 

One weekend afternoon when I entered Shiwasu, I walked around the Nihonbashi area. There are a lot of shoppers walking along the main street.

Enter the road between Mitsukoshi and Mitsui Main Building in the direction of Tokiwa Bridge. This area used to be [Echigo-ya]. [Mitsui Main Building] is also an important cultural property, and it shows a dignified appearance.

The Bank of Japan's head office is in a hurry. With today's internationalization and complexity of finance, expectations for the Bank of Japan are growing even more.

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, opposite the head office of the Bank of Japan is the monetary museum. The Bank of Japan Annex is free of charge and displays materials related to domestic and foreign currency.

  

At the end of the year when you feel the value of money even more, look at the Keicho era large format, stately gold and silver coins and banknotes, and feel a little calm? ？ I've got into it.

 

The Nihonbashi area is a town where you won't get tired of shopping and historical walks. Everyone, please discover new charms.

 

 

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