Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

It was a famous story that the isolation was implemented since the era of the third shogun Iemitsu in the Edo period, but it was famous that Dejima in Nagasaki was the only window to open doors to the Netherlands and China. However, Nagasaki was not the only point of contact with foreign countries. That was in Edo Nihonbashi. At first, in the late Edo period, the Dutch trading director (Capitan) brought a large amount of souvenirs once every four years and went to Edo Sanfu in order to renew their authority with the generals. Was. Genemon Ehara (name: Nagasakiya), who lived in Nihonbashi Honishicho 3-chome and ran the Tang Ginsengza, provided the Holland House as a lodging for Sanfu until the end of the Edo period.

　

At present, there is a remarkable increase in inbound tourists from overseas, and it is true that Nihonbashi discovered a point of contact with foreign countries 200 to 400 years ago. As a material related to the Holland House, Katsushika Hokusai's "Eimoto Toyu" is famous, but the rest is very few. I would like to analyze the Nagasakiya and Holland House based on the materials provided at this time. In the first blog, I would like to tell you about the geographical location of the Holland House and the internal structure of the building created based on the imagination. The materials related to the Holland House are very limited, but I can't imagine most of them are not visualized in writing. In this blog, I tried to "visualize" the window to foreign countries during the era of isolation.

　

Since the cherry blossoms began to fall in Kapitan's Edo Sanfu, we left Nagasaki at the end of March (new calendar) and arrived in Edo in about two weeks via sea and land. There were more than 50 people from Nagasaki, but including those who took care of them in Edo, more than 100 people needed a very large dormitory. It could not be accommodated solely by the Holland House, located far away from the Tangjin Sogoya (Nagasakiya) in Honishicho 3-chome, and was also housed in a nearby inn. There is no doubt that a lot of money has fallen into the Nihonbashi area due to the Edo Sanfu of Capitan. I stayed in Edo for about two weeks, and it took about two months from leaving Nagasaki to returning.

　

Because of the era of isolation, security is extremely severe, and it cannot be imagined that exchanges with the general public of Edo were conducted as described in "Eimoto Toyu". This is thought to be a product of Hokusai's imagination. In Edo, it was almost incontinence, but it is said that intellectuals, doctors, and scientists such as Gennai Hiraga and Hoshu Katsuragawa visited the Holland House and absorbed advanced technologies overseas.

　

The Holland House, an annex of Nagasakiya in 3-chome, Honishicho, is the oldest "time bell" in Edo across the path "Kondo Shindo" (Honishicho 3-chome Shindo) with Iwatsuki-cho adjacent to 3-chome. I'm in contact with The site of Nagasakiya occupies a corner of Sanchome, and was a large set of warehouses built and lined up in Iyashiki. From the security point of view, it is imagined that the Holland House had an entrance on the Shindo side of Honishicho 3-chome, and that Nagasakiya was on the main street "Honishicho 3-chome Street". Nagasakiya is shown in the 1873 gu ticket map (real estate registry), but it has become smaller because management deteriorated in the late Edo period and sold real estate nearby, but it still has 400 tsubo. It is said that it initially occupied a corner of Honishicho 3-chome. (Nagasakiya's management deteriorated at the end of the Edo period, and the land was sold and moved to Tsukiji's foreign settlement, but has since closed.)

　

It is known that the Dutch named Blom Holtz had an exchange with the daughter of Nagasakiya during the Capitan era, so it is probable that there was an exchange inside. Nagasakiya is a separate building, but it was connected internally to the Holland House. There is a security guard at the entrance on the new road side, and it is probable that severe security was maintained and that communication with the outside was not possible during the stay. When you open the entrance door next to the guard, the stairs (14 steps?) There is a capitan party stays on the second floor. There must have been a kitchen, dining room, and waiting room on the first floor. There is a document that the smoke of the kitchen Kama went up to the second floor and struggled to smoke, so it is expected that the arrangement was as shown below.

　

There are still materials for interaction with Japanese people such as Gennai Hiraga, so I used the materials to imagine the layout on the second floor. On the second floor, there were guest rooms, capitan offices, doctor / secretary rooms, baths, etc. They were lined up like a tenement house, and there was a corridor in front of the room. I don't know if sleeping is a bed or a futon. In the doctor / secretary's room, there are pictures with stands and microscopes placed on the desk, so it is assumed that they used them to interact with Japanese intellectuals, Dutch scholars, and Dutch doctors.

It seems that there was a stand like a fire tower on the second floor. You will have been able to see the town of Edo from there, and you will have seen the spread of the fire in Edo.

　

Reference:

Seiichi Kiuchi:　The first bell story of Edo (Ryutsu Keizai University Press)

Seiichi Kiuchi:　Nagasakiya Monogatari, a Dutch lodging house in Edo (Ryutsu Keizai University Press)

Kazuo Katagiri:　Dutchman in Edo (Nakakou Shinsho)

Kazuo Katagiri: Still, was Edo a isolation (Kikkawa Hirobunkan)?

Chuo-ku, Tokyo Board of Education:　Chuo-ku History Chart (Nihonbashi edition)

 

 

April 8th is the day of the birth of the Buddha.

At Daikanonji Temple in Ningyocho, the “Flower Festival” event has been held every year.

This year, the day of the birth of Buddha was Saturday, and a large number of people visited.

　

We make "Hanamido" decorated with flowers on the grounds and pour sweet tea into the standing statue in the hall to celebrate. There was also a special opening of main deity.

　　

On the day of the event, there was a service of sweet tea and Japanese sweets for worshipers, and a fun raffle where Ningyocho's masterpieces were served.

　

After visiting, you will receive an oval rice cracker and draw a speed lottery, and if you hit it, you can get various prizes from famous shops in Ningyocho. Even if the lottery is out, you can enjoy sweet tea and Japanese sweets in the tent below the stairs.

　

Sweet tea and Japanese sweets placed on a small tray were served, and sat down on a bench with red rugs and ate. Beside it, Ningyocho's character "Hitonosuke" was also charming.

　

It was sometimes a light rain day, but I felt refreshed when I worshiped.

　

 

 

I think many people know the "Karinto" shop where you can line up at Tokyo Station Gransta. The name of the shop is "Nihonbashi Kintoyorin". The main store of this shop opened in Nihonbashikodenmacho last November.
　

Actually, at the same time as the opening of this store, Gransta, there was no head office. Gransta was the first store. However, the seller's address on the back is Kodemmacho, and a customer who saw it sometimes came to Kodemmacho to buy it and searched for a shop.
　

The secret is that this shop has been a confectionery wholesaler for 120 years, and until the middle of Showa, the shop was opened in Kodemmacho. Since then, due to traffic conditions and other problems, the wholesale business headquarters has moved to Adachi-ku and is still operating.
　

It was a wholesaler, but we have been working on joint development of sweets with the manufacturer since then. One of them, "Karinto," was noticed by Gransta staff and opened a store, which was the catalyst for entering the retail sales of sweets.
　

This time, we opened the "Nihonbashi Kintoyorin" main store in Kodemmacho, the place where the wholesaler was operated until the middle of Showa.

My image of "Karinto" is the sweet seasoning of brown sugar, but I was surprised when I tried "Kinpira Gobo Karinto". Karinto, which has a spicy flavor of burdock and a spicy taste of seven flavors. However, it is an exquisite and new taste where you can feel the sweetness of karinto.

The burdock is mixed with the dough, and the shichimi is mixed with the sweetness to be coated.

There are also various other flavors of "Karinto", but each fabric is manufactured by trial and error on the optimal manufacturing method such as the time and thickness of the dough.

　

There are about 9 types of "Kinto" by Nihonbashi Kintoyorin, such as "Kinpira burdock", "Black Sugar", "Murasakiimo", and "Vegetables". In addition, there are seasonal products-"Sakura" now and limited products at each store-"Ume Wasabi" and "Mitarashi" at Soramachi store.

<Murasaki Imo>

<Vegetables>
　
<Sesame>

　
<Tea>

<Sakura>

　　　

The flour of the dough is domestic, and the fried oil is also made with domestic rapeseed oil in order to make it healthy with a light taste.
　

In addition, Karinto is familiar to elderly people, but there are places where young people are a little unfamiliar, so when selling "Caramel Armon" and "Caramel Banana" Karinto for young people, it has been well received by young people I am. "Caramel" Karinto is in a slightly fashionable bag different from other "Karinto". There are also ideas to attract young people around here.

　

The Grandsta store is a specialty store of "Karinto", but the main store also has sweets such as rice crackers, castella, and okaki.

　

<Two-stage preparation taste okaki>

(It is a delicious dish with a firm taste, which has been baked once by hand, soaks the amaze, and is dried with sweet soy sauce on the outside.)

<Nori-rolled fried roast>
　 (A lot of domestic seaweed is wrapped in fried sweet and spicy soy sauce, and it is very delicious.)

　　　　　　
Seasonal <Sakura Kasutera>

In addition, there is a set of "Karinto" suitable for gifts, as well as a stylishly wrapped "Karinto" that can be used for Valentine and White Day gifts.

　

<Sakura> in a cherry blossom bag

　

Packaging a drawstring

　

Everyone, please enjoy the completely new taste of "Karinto".
　

<Nihonbashi Kintoyorin>

　Nihonbashi Head Office:　16-14, Nihonbashikodenmacho, Chuo-ku

　　　　　　　　　　03-6661-1472

　　　　　　　　The nearest station is Kodemmacho on the Hibiya Line and Bakurocho on the JR Sobu Line.

　　　　 　　　　　Business hours from Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 18:30 (Saturday is irregular, Sundays and holidays)

　　 　　　　　　　 H.P： http://www.nishikihorin.com/　

You can purchase it outside the main store.

　Tokyo Station Grandsta Store (specialized in Karinto)

　Tokyo Skytree Town Soramachi Store

　Lumine Kitasenju store

　Ixpiari store
　

You can also purchase it online from home. 　

　"Nihonbashi Kintoyorin Online Shop" 　

　http://nishikihorin-shop.com/

 

 

March 31st was Premium Friday.

Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi provided a lot of benefits for this day only, but one of them was that "If you buy more than ¥2,160, you can get Suntory Premium Maltz glass."

Furthermore, at 4 o'clock we had a toast time with the landlady in Nihonbashi, and at this time even those who had no purchase were able to get beer and participate in the toast.

I was able to participate in the toast because I was lucky enough to be there.



Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi seems to have full premium benefits on Friday at the end of the month, so if you go to Mitsukoshi in April, there may be something good.

 

 

When I guided Nihonbashi earlier this month as a guide, I stopped by Eitaro Sohonbu, a Japanese confectionery, to talk about it.

　

I used to write a blog about the bridge between the Kanda River and Nihonbashi River that appeared in Keigo Higashino's novel "When the curtain of prayer falls", but I remember that it had been suspended for a while, This time, I will write it as a sequel to the neighborhood of "Nishikawabashi".
　

This area is currently the address of Nihonbashi Honishi-cho, Muromachi, and Yaesu along the Nihonbashi River, but in the Edo period, the west side of the river was called "Nishikawa Riverside", so it is named "Nishikawa Riverside Bridge".

It is famous as the stage of Kyoka Izumi's masterpiece "Nihonbashi", but it is a very plain bridge with no characteristics in the construction of the bridge itself. Until the middle of the Showa era, a metropolitan bus running from Tokyo Station to Koiwa Station ran across the bridge. When returning from Tokyo Station to the house in Tachibana-cho (now Higashi-Nihonbashi 3-chome), it is not the Nishi-Kashibashi Bridge, but I still remember that children thought, "I want you to go through Nihonbashi anyway."
　

That's why I don't write much about the bridge, so I write it along the neighborhood.
　

The Jizo Bodhisattva of "Nipponbashinishi Riverside Bridge Jizoji Church" is said to have been carved by Gyoki. In addition, when Shotaro Hanayagi plays the role of Sensei when performing Kyoka Izumi's "Nihonbashi", the dedicated "Ita-e Colored Sensei's figure" still exists.

On the wall of the Mizuho Trust Bank building at the intersection of Gofuku Bridge on Eidai-dori, a monument to the Minatoya Esogo store opened by Yumeji Takehisa is embedded.

Also, on the other side of Kiyosubashi-dori in Suitengu Shrine, opposite Meijiza in Hamacho, there is still the Minatoya Esoshi Paper Store. Here, we sell a lot of products related to Yumeji Takehisa side by side.

There is a delicious Japanese confectionery near the West Bank Bridge.

According to the explanation I heard at Eitaro Sohonten, during the Ansei period of the Edo period, when I put out a "Kintsuba" stall and sold it to customers coming to the Nihonbashi Fish Bank, it flourished, and it began to set up a store in this area That is.

Even today, Eitaro's Kintsuba is a featured product, and its feature is that it has a round shape like a sword brim.

URL:　http://www.eitaro.com/
　

　
In addition, there is "Rabbitya Nihonbashi Main Store" nearby (the Chuo-dori store is also located). The main store is closed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, but this is open on Saturday.) "Rabbitya" also has shops in Ueno (the birthplace of rabbits and rabbits) and Asagaya.

Dorayaki is famous, but I think it's very delicious here too.

URL:　http://www.wagashi.or.jp/tokyo_link/shop/0303.htm

It's a bit from Nihonbashi, but when you come to Mitsukoshi or Takashimaya, why don't you stop by?

 

 

Saturday, February 18th, at Marriott Tobu Ginza Hotel

The 9th Chuo-ku Tourism Association Tourism Certification Test was held.

　　

A lot of people went to the test site with a sense of tension.

　

I couldn't sleep well the day before, and I went to the test site.

When you head to the entrance

The smiles of the tourist association staff were very nice.

Surrounded by a smile, he relaxed my tension.

　

Stay calm and go upstairs and take a break.

　Will it be displayed at the wedding reception?

　I thought that the customers who receive this candy would be able to immerse themselves in a very happy feeling.