Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

As you know, Hie-jinja Shrine is one of the most traditional shrines in Tokyo. In other words, it has a history of originating from Mt. Hiei and has been revered since ancient times.

Kayabacho in Chuo-ku is home to the shrine of Hie-jinja Shrine. In the first place, an inn was set up in this area, and in the Edo period it prospered as a comprehensive place of worship in syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism. Now it seems to be quietly standing in the valley of the building, but it will be particularly lively during the Sanno Festival.

　

The other day, when I visited Hie-jinja Shrine in Nagata-cho, Chiyoda-ku, what is the word "Denma-cho" on the pedestal of komainu? "Minami Temmacho" is now no longer the name of the town and is incorporated into a part of Kyobashi, but in the Edo era it was used to be called "Mitemmacho" along with Otemmacho and Kodemmacho. It is an important position in the history of Chuo-ku.
Later, Akasaka also said that "Akasaka Temmacho" was set up in the form attached to "Mitemmacho" in Chuo-ku, so there may have been various connections.

　

It was a time to get a glimpse of a part of the history of Chuo-ku in other wards.

　On February 17, the ninth day of the Pyeongchang Olympics, Yuzuru Hanyu performed a masterpiece performance in figure skating men's free, and achieved the second consecutive victory with 317.85 points together with SP.

This is the first Japanese gold medal in this tournament.

With the feeling of blessing, the Tokyo Sky Tree is lit at 17:30 to 24:00 the same night, with a special light-up inspired by a gold medal designed by public offering in 2013. You can see a stunning gold medal shine over the Eitai Bridge.

At Tokyo Tower, "Congratulations on the gold medal! The special diamond veil is lit.

Masama Uno also won a silver medal with a total of 306.90 points, and for the first time in figures, several Japanese players stood on the podium, and various parts of the archipelago were shouted with great cheers.

Keika Square, located at Hatchobori 3-chome, the southern end of Hatchobori Suzuran Street, is a facility where Keika Elementary School, founded in 1901 (Meiji 34), has changed its shape and continues to live in the community.

The current building has been reusing and using the former Keika Elementary School and Kindergarten buildings built in 1929 (Showa 4) as a "reconstruction elementary school" focusing on earthquake resistance after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Keika Elementary School was closed in 1993, when Chuo-ku was a time when the population was declining, because it was integrated into Chuo Elementary School together with Tepposu Elementary School, but in 2001 (Heisei 13), the Chuo Ward High-Tech Center (training room, meeting room, exhibition hall, lobby), Kyoka Community Room, Chuo-ku Silver Extension Center, Chuo-ku Human Resources Center, Chuo University.

Kinjiro Ninomiya was studying in the schoolyard.

　

　

Waseda University Extension Center, as the meaning of "Extension" (= expansion, opening), is an institution to widely open the research and education functions of Waseda University to society. Hatchobori Campus offers a large number of courses every spring, summer, autumn, and winter semesters such as liberal arts, business, language, sports, etc.

　

The Waseda University Extension Center Hatchobori Campus, Japan's largest lifelong learning institution, is located nearby, so there is no way to use it.

　

Tokyo Dumbo also started learning this year.

No matter how many you are, you can study.

　

　On February 9, the 23rd Olympic Winter Games (PyeongChang 2018) started. In the winter tournament, more than 2,900 athletes from 92 countries and regions, the highest ever, will participate, and 102 events of 7 sports will be held over 17 days.

At the Tokyo Sky Tree and Tokyo Tower, special lighting of the Olympic symbol "blue, black, yellow, green and red" that sends ale to Japanese national players on the same night when the opening ceremony was held.

Tokyo Sky Tree 17:15-24:00 Tokyo Tower sunset - 23:00

Over the Eitai Bridge, which is lit up in light blue, the Olympic color shines.

During the tournament, when the Japanese national team players and teams win the gold medal, they expressed their blessings and said, "Congratulations on the gold medal! I heard that Special Diamond Ver "(Tokyo Tower) and "Special Lighting in the Image of Gold Medal" (Tokyo Sky Tree) will be lit each.

　Several Kawazu cherry blossoms planted on the northeast side of the Sumida River Terrace Chuo-ohashi Bridge, Shinkawa Park (Shinkawa 2) along the Sumida River Terrace Chuo-ohashi Bridge, have begun to bloom.

By the way, cherry blossom flowering is "the first day when more than 5 to 6 flowers are open on a standard tree".

It is said to be an interseed hybrid of Kanhizakura and oshima cherry, and its flower color is pink or light red, giving a stronger impression of the petals than Yoshino cherry tree.

One of the features of the cherry blossom season is that it usually starts to bloom in early February, is in full bloom about a month later, and the full bloom lasts for a certain period of time.

I hear that the flowering time is greatly affected by the weather of the year, but in late January it is a winter day for seven consecutive days, and even this month, the maximum temperature is below 10 ° C every day, and the pink flower color is the arrival of spring It makes you feel that you are steadily approaching.

In the first Mokutaro Kinoshita series "Mokutaro Kinoshita and Yaesu Bridge", I wrote that I was attending "Maison Kounosu" opened beside the armor bridge with members of the bread association.

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The Bread Association is a discourse that became the base of the aesthetic literary movement in the late Meiji era. It was established in December 1908 (1908) and is a member of the company.Seven SistersIt consists of poets from Mokutaro Kinoshita, Kitahara Hakushu, Isamu Yoshii and others, artists such as Shohachi Kimura from the art magazine Hosun, and Kaoru Osanai and Sadanji Ichikawa of Jiyu Theater. Kafu Nagai and others also attended, and continued a feast of youth licence, likeing Tokyo to Paris and the Sumida River to Seine. There was a theory that the Nihonbashi River was traced to the Seine, and "Maison Kounosu" was also useful. (In Nihonbashikoamicho, there is a signboard explaining "Maison Kounosu".)

This picture is a photograph of the one displayed at the Mokutaro Kinoshita Memorial Hall (Ito City). The picture is written by Motaro.

The name of "Kounosu" is based on the hometown of Komazo Okuda, the owner of "Maison Kounosu" and the hill near Terada Village, Kuze-gun (Joyo City, Kyoto Prefecture) "(Kounosu City, Saitama Prefecture, has nothing to do with Kounosu City). I am. Komakura at the time of the opening of "Maison Kounosu" was slightly 36 years old.

Around 1915, Maison Konosu will be relocated to the Nihonbashi Kihara store (the former Shirakiya Yokomachi, still the site of the Kihara store).
The first floor is a narrow bare like an eaves. The wall that came out of the brick looked like a basement. The cafeteria on the second floor is quite large, and it has become even more used as a meeting place for various literary groups than in the Koamicho era. A photo of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Rashomon" publication commemorative party is left, and you can see the inside of Konosu's store.

　By the end of 1920, the store will be relocated again. This time, he claims to be a full-fledged restaurant as the French cuisine "Konosu". The location is 2-12 Minami Denmacho, Kyobashi, and is currently located at Meijiya on the subway Kyobashi Station. It was a four-story building that originally had a Tamura hat shop.
The first floor is like a hall with a high ceiling, with several round tables on a curved chair. In winter, the Daruma Stover burns red, and bottles of Western liquor line up on the shelves behind the counter, and the scent of coffee that tickles the nose drifts to the storefront, attracting customers. There were several large and small banquet halls on the second and third floors, and the fourth floor seemed to be a resting place for employees and a residence for their families.
On September 1, 1923, the store collapsed due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, but the Komazo family was safe.
　

　

However, on October 1, 1925, just two years after the earthquake, Komazo died suddenly at the age of 43.

The bread party will continue gatherings using various shops, but Ginza's plantan is a cafe that I became familiar with other than "Maison Kounosu". Shozo Matsuyama from Tokyo Bijutsu School (now the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts) opened a cafe plantan in March 1911 to create a place where literary and painters can gather and talk about art, like a cafe in Paris. It is located at 20 Hiyoshicho, Kyobashi-ku (currently Ginza 8-6-24, near Ginza Kaikan), a corner of Ginza Brick Street. The brick building was renovated, and Kaoru Osanai named it "Platinum". There were similar stores, but with the advent of plantans, cafes (as salon-style stores) in the sense that people returning to the West had said.

It is not possible to identify whether it is a plantan or Kounosu, but there is a picture that Shohachi Kimura took a paintbrush after hearing from Mokutaro Kinoshita. It's fun!

After a variety of transitions, Ginza's cafes created the form of "bars" as one form, and there are about 350 houses throughout Ginza (1-chome to 8-chome). Why don't you visit a bar in Ginza to feel some of the cafe experiences such as Mokutaro Kinoshita and Dazai Osamu?