Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　The Tokyo Shimbashi Association has been doing good things for many years.

I think it's great not to disclose it for a long time.　

One of them is

Mr. Fujino visited Chuo-ku and donated 120 tickets to the Higashi-dori every year to the Chuo-ku Japan National Council of Social Welfare, saying that he would like to invite elderly people in the city to the Higashi-dori. That is.　This invitation started in 1996 and is said to be the 16th this year.

And there are a lot of things that have not yet been released, but I heard last week.

Shingo Okasoe of the Tokyo Shimbashi Association said that when holding this east dance, they decided something message and talked with everyone to send it out.

Five years ago, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Shinbashi Hanayanagikai (the year when Kazusa was allowed to take into account), the first act of enjoying the original dance and enjoying the original dance. The concept is to be renewed, and Shimbashi Enbujo is regarded as a large restaurant, and the first act is to enjoy the original dance.

And for the fifth time, this year, the first year since Mr. Oka was appointed president, was affected by the earthquake.

"Since support is provided in many places, we are living in culture, so we would like to directly support our peers who are difficult to donate in Tohoku." For that purpose,

"I want people who are bright, beautiful, and come to enjoy dancing, eating, and drinking, and so on. The content is filled with a wish.

　For food and enjoyment of sake, donperinon, Japanese sake appetizers, and "Shinbashi Kask" are described on the website of the information.

　
What is not open to the public is a donation activity in the part where Shimbashi Enbujo is tailored to a large restaurant during the beautiful dance intermission in the east.

　For friends who can no longer participate this time, sake from the brewery of Shichikura from Tohoku is set on the second floor of Shimbashi Enbujo, and rice from Tohoku, Honda of Aizu Wakamatsu has been reduced pesticide rice "Ujigo-Ujisato-", cooked rice (Kanada Naka), red Tokyo salmon tea and soft kelp (Kanada Naka), according to it. We sell miscellaneous fish, Sanshoni (Yonemura).　　And we would like to send 10% of the proceeds to the Tohoku cuisine association through a Tohoku restaurant called Orient-kan.　This connects our town "Shimbashi" and Tohoku.　He said that he wanted to cherish this bond.　

I'm really going down.

　By all means, please visit Shimbashi Enbujo and enjoy beautiful dance, delicious food, and delicious sake.　

Click here for the website of the Tokyo Shimbashi Association. http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shinbashikumiai/

The 87th "East Odori"　

It will be held for 4 days from May 27 to 30 (Mon).

The posters of the guide are often noticeable in Ginza and Tsukiji, so I think everyone knows well.

If you look at the website, you can see that the Tokyo Shimbashi Association East Festival and the Tokyo Shimbashi Association consists of a restaurant club and a geisha club.　I thought it. The union is located in Ginza 8-chome.

　Oh!　I don't know!　I would like to investigate this, so I asked the Chuo-ku Tourism Association to arrange it.

Mr. Shingo Okazoe, President of the Tokyo Shimbashi Association.

I visited a restaurant, Mr. Kanadanaka.

Looking at the Q & A I prepared, it's too neatly organized.　For an hour and a half, he was able to talk about the spirit of enterprising from the history of the origin of Shimbashi Geisha to the days of hardships.　

Then, from the history section

　It is well known that the absences of each clan, who were packed in Edo in sankin kotai during the Edo period, played and drank at restaurants in the name of information exchange.

According to the explanation board of the ruins of the Kinharu Yashiki, "There are Yotsuya of Kinharu, Kanze, Hosho, and Kongo as Noh actors directly under the Shogunate, and the Kinharu family worshiped the mansion in 1627 (1627). Later, the mansion moved to Kojimachi, but geisha gathered on the site and developed as a flower district. "　When I asked this story, Mr. Okazoe told me the detailed roots from there.

―――He lent the home area given by Mr. Kinharu Tayu to a performing arts teacher, and since the teachers had many beautiful women, they were called to welcome and welcome the daimyo residence.　Mr. Tokiwazu Mojiwasa of Kinharu Performing Arts Village, got permission to take care of the elderly in Edo shogunate at the time, and performed the arts, which was the basis for the Hanayanagi world. Was.―――

　late Tokugawa shogunate, the young samurai who came from the West with the rejection of the Emperor, were not treated at the finest Yanagibashi at the time, but Shimbashi Geisha warmly welcomed him.

As a result, in the early Meiji era, Yanagibashi, which inherited the culture of Edo, Shimbashi, the emerging city Shimbashi, and the Shimbashi Hanayanagi world developed before it was called Shinryu Nikyo, but also secret stories were introduced here Was.

―――When the Tokaido Line opened to Nagoya, Kaoru Inoue from the Choshu clan, who served as an old man, Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Minister of Home Affairs, etc. of the Meiji era, borrowed a train from Shimbashi Station to Nagoya Station and invited Shimbashi Geisha to the Hanayanagi world in Nagoya to perform a dance there.　At that time, Nagoya seemed to have been very active in both business and performing arts since the promotion of Owari weather in fighting with Yatsushiro Shogun Yoshimune.　

Unfortunately, the dance of Shimbashi Geisha at this time was not well-received in Nagoya, and told geisha, Nagoya, "When I heard from far away from Tokyo, I thought it would be pretty beautiful, but it was never big if I saw it nearby.　It was as if he was abused as "Gifu lantern" and was shameful and felt very frustrated.　When I dropped my shoulders and returned to Shimbashi, a heavyweight of the land started a year. We welcomed a first-class teacher called Soke Iemoto from all over the country.　It was said that the desire to practice and dance better led to the construction of Shimbashi Enbujo in 1925.　The state-of-the-art brick Shimbashi Enbujo at the time has continued since it dropped the east.―――

　It seems that they are competing with Nihonbashi (Yanagibashi) and Ginza (Shimbashi), but they are said to have developed through friendly competition.　

　The enterprising spirit was not only that, but Shimbashi Geisha made a fashion by incorporating the color of kimono and novel patterns.　The color at this time is Shimbashi blue, and the novel Moe yellow color is Shimbashi color.　She was wearing such a wonderful kimono with such a bright color, and the children of a good family imitated it.　It's fun!　It's going to be a book.

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shinbashikumiai/index.html For information on “Higashi Odori” and HP, please refer to http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shinbashikumiai/. 

http://blog.nihon-kankou.or.jp/kankoublog/JTA13102.php?itemid=9448

　Please go out. 

　The season has come to the east again this year. This year is four days from May 27 to 30 (Mon).

Even so, why do you write "Dance" instead of "Dance"?　That kind of question came up.

I tried to open the website in the east.　About the origin

"Shimbashi Hanayanagi world has continued since the Edo period.　Invented by Tokutaro Kawamura that there are fine singing places in Kyoto and Osaka, but it is unfortunate that it is not in Tokyo. Shimbashi Enbujo was founded in April 1925. "

Regarding the development of the east, "Shimbashi Enbujo's opening (Kokera Otoshi) is a performance of Shimbashi Geisha and follows the east. It is said that the history of East began with this first time. In 1945, when he lost in the Pacific War, Shimbashi Enbujo also turned into rubble, but in the east, waited for its reconstruction, and served as a play from Kirasei of post-war literature such as Yasunari Kawabata, Junichirou Tanizaki, Eiji Yoshikawa, Matsutaro Kawaguchi, etc. I asked for a play and added a new axis called dance drama. "

　Oh, there's a scenario for dancing.

But what is the birthplace of Shimbashi Geisha?　

Also, there was a question, and I thought that this would be impossible to elucidate without interviewing the organizer of the east, so I decided to interview.　The article for the interview is next time!

Actually, I enjoy seeing Ginzo, the east of last year. I also have a two-shot photo with a geisha.

Click here for the website in the east. → http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shinbashikumiai/index.html

Here's the report of Ginzo. http://www.chuo-kanko.or.jp/blog/2010/05/post-334.html

By all means, please go to Shimbashi Enbujo, see the beauty, eat delicious, and have a good time.

The number of fashionable "Japanese cafes" has increased in Ginza. This shop introduced today is located in the basement of a building that goes a little toward Shimbashi along Azuma-dori, behind Matsuzakaya. The probability that people who don't know the shop will enter is quite low, but after 14:00 on Sunday when I entered with a friend I guided me, the table and counter seats are almost full. You can see how popular it is.

When you take a step forward with the smile of your husband and wife, you can see that it is not a very first shop and you can relieve tension. The owner who explains "recommended" is a good and friendly tone that is not imposing is the result of the accumulation of sales know-how in the businessman era!

Today, according to the recommendation of "businessmen", two people have "specially selected warabi mochi" and "cream anmitsu" SHARE. Both come with crude tea from Shizuoka (1,575 yen). (Incidentally, "rough tea" refers to tea that has not been refined by heating freshly picked leaves with steam, and is also called Namacha or coarse tea. I didn't know because I didn't study.)

As instructed by the master, pour it into a teapot and wait for 10 seconds and slowly pour it into the bowl, the scent of the deep tea leaves spreads in your mouth. Unexpectedly two people at the same time "delicious!" 。 The wife's handmade warabi mochi, anmitsu Shiratama, and black honey are also excellent. Even though I just had a lot of lunch, it is "Kukufuku".

In addition to the sweetness, this is the original shop, 11 kinds of cucumber sencha, gyokuro, matcha, and hojicha (both 1,470 yen to 1,680 yen with Japanese sweets), all of which are carefully selected from teahouses nationwide. It is only a specialty item that you have done. It seems that several people enjoy drinking and comparing tea in each production area. Of course, you can also purchase what you like.

It rained while relaxing with the cozyness of spending time in the tea room at a close friend's house. If you run to Matsuzakaya, you can go through the underground to the subway platform without getting wet.

Sajin: 6-11-14 Ginza, Chuo-ku Asend Ginza 6-chome B1

　　　TEL: 03-5537-1245

　　　Business hours 11:00-20:00 (Sunday holiday-18:00, Monday closed)

　　　5-minute walk from Exit A3 of Ginza Station

Do you know "Ginza Honey"?

"Which shop do you want to eat sweets today?" I was playing with a personal computer as usual, but I found something interesting in the beautiful menu of Ginza Shiseido Parlour!

"French toast to taste with honey picked in Ginza"

Honey in Ginza? Isn't honey something that can be done in a place like the "Nantoka Bee Farm"? ？ ？ If you are interested, check it immediately!

Everything is an organization launched by an NPO called the "Ginza Bee Project", and it seems that honeybees are actually bred on the roof of the paper pulp hall in Ginza.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Click here for the hp of the Ginza Bee Project http://www.gin-pachi.jp/0/topics/1.

Over the past few years, the movement of greening has been rapidly increasing in Ginza, in the middle of the city. I immediately visited the rooftop of Ginza Mitsukoshi, which appeared on hp.

"Ginza Terrace" on the 9th floor does not have a so-called "rooftop amusement park" like our childhood, but it is a very pleasant space full of greenery. It was full of moms with children and men in suits around.

"Terrace Farm" is located in one corner. canola flower, which was planted in December by a fourth-year student at Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School, grew quickly.

In addition, various herbs were planted in the garden area, and lavender was blooming. I was invited by this good scent, and bees were flying.

I see. Even in the middle of Ginza, such a steady effort has been fruitful ... and after "study", the expectation for French toast is at its peak! To Shiseido Parlour while holding down the feeling of doing it.

This is "French toast to taste with honey picked in Ginza" (1,480 yen) The presence of honey attached to the baked toast! It shines golden.

A cute clerk smiled, saying, "We have prepared Japanese honey today." It seems that Japanese bees are even rarer than Western bees. I'm glad!

Needless to say, in an elegant and celebrity interior cafe, I literally tasted "like the dish"!

Even if we live in a city, we humans have to get along with nature even more. Thank you for the bee!

Ginza Shiseido Parlour Salon de Cafe http://parlour.shiseido.co.jp/index.html#/top

8-8-3 Ginza, Chuo-ku 03-5537-6231 * Closed every Monday