Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Everybody, I'm a correspondent, Vickie. We look forward to seeing you again this year!

By the way, as I have already talked about last year, I went to listen to "Ninth" because of the end of the year ... However, it is not fashionable to the Suntory Hall, but to cultural center while visiting the museum.

I visited Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi. The annual "Mitsukoshi Ninth" is held in the central hall on the first floor, and this is the 28th time this year.

2 performances from 12:30 and 14:30. When I arrived a little before 14:00 in line with the performance at 14:30 ... The seat was already filled. You can see how popular it is. But Vickie went to the third floor to shoot a wonderful whole picture. There is still room here, and get the best position in front! While waiting for about 30 minutes, a ladies of Mitsukoshi fans who came next to me (it seems that they come every year!) I have a fun conversation with you.♪

Well, this is the masterpiece of the chorus. It's Osako power that beats the statue of heavenly woman!

The chorus squad of over 200 people, including the wonderful soloists of soprano, alto, tenor and bus, is the Taito Ward Chorus.

In the meantime, the hall on the first floor was full of standing customers, and the balconies on each floor were filled with a large audience.

It was about 30 minutes to taste, but it is true that Mitsukoshi can enjoy such a wonderful ninth for free. We exchanged a wonderful greeting with a lady next door saying, "Let's meet here again next year," and we were able to finish 2012 with a very warm feeling!

Happy New Year. We sincerely pray for the prosperity of Chuo-ku and the good health of those who are related to this year.

By the way, this exploration report that I started in the series last fall, but I will continue to keep it a little longer. It is a walk as you want, a visit to temples and shrines, and a self-religious spirit, but please be patient.

At the beginning of the year, we will start from Nihonbashi. Oedo Nihonbashi ♪ As you sang, isn't it a land suitable for the beginning of the New Year? Cross Nihonbashi and walk along with praying for one year's well-being in the flow of new balls of water.

As you all know, the underground streets of Nihonbashi are full of reproductions of "Kidai Shoran" on the wall. It is a valuable picture that carefully depicts the commercial shops lined up on the main street of Nihonbashi 200 years ago. The original picture was discovered in Germany, and a reproduction was created by the Meibashi "Nihonbashi" Preservation Society and the Nihonbashi Regional Renaissance 100-Year Planning Committee, and was established in 2009.

It is drawn very accurately, and just looking at it makes you feel like you slipped in the Edo period. When I visit Nihonbashi, my legs naturally go to this picture.

  Go out to the ground, look at the [Mitsui Main Building] to the left, turn right at the end of [Cored Nihonbashi], and you will find [Ukiyokoji]. Isn't it a gorgeous name? Of course, it is well written in pictures of the Edo period. This is Fukutoku Shrine. It's the perfect name for New Year's Day, so I'll go to Hatsumode immediately. You can see an adorable and tasteful appearance in the new streets.

The luck in the first place seems to go back more than a thousand years ago, and it is said that it flourished with the opening of Edo. After the transition, he arrived here, but disappeared by air raids, and was enshrined on the roof of a building after the war. It was newly developed along with the redevelopment of Nihonbashi Muromachi, and it came to the ground again last year. With this, you can feel free to drop in.

Fukutoku Shrine is one of the few shrines that allowed wealth during the Edo period, and because of its edge, it is also known as the god of fortune prayers. It's a lottery I'm talking about now. As introduced at the time of Sugimori Shrine, it would have been very popular in the Edo period. You don't have to be a lottery, so I wish you could meet something lucky.

This shrine is also known as "Mebuki Shrine", and this is also an auspicious name. Everything was named after Tokugawa's second shogun Hidetada, budding in the Kunugi tree used for the torii gate during the visit.

In addition, this shrine is located [Ukiyokoji] is the place where the famous restaurant "Hyakukawa" was located in Edo. It is also known as the stage of rakugo. As long as I miss the story of Mr. Ensei and Mr. Shin Asa, "Hyakukawa" is a real restaurant and was one of the best restaurants in Edo that undertook dishes during the negotiations of the Japan-US Peace Treaty. Unfortunately, it went out of business in the early Meiji era, but it seems that stores remained for a while in the Meiji era, and Meiji period's rakugo "Hyakukawa" would have been accepted with a real sense.

Now, after you have completed your visit comfortably, you will return to your home and have delicious sake. First of all, a lot of slaughterhouses. In general, slaughterhouses are prepared by soaking commercially available slaughterhouses in sake, but since it is originally like herbal bath to exorcise evil, it feels more pure than good. But I will give you a celebration while feeling the joy of the New Year.

May this be a good year for all of you.

・・・ Maybe the slaughter is the god of fortune

More Pilgrimage to temples and shrines in the ward-No. 9 "Fukutoku Shrine"