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The trace of Yokocho, 'Kihara Store' where Soseki and Shiki passed through
On the north side of Nihonbashi 1-chome "Coledo Nihonbashi", there used to be a side street called "Kihara store" in the vicinity of "Nihonbashi Nishikawa" bedding.
When the Edo period machiya entered the Meiji era, it became the center of downtown Nihonbashi where many restaurants such as eel shops, sushi restaurants, cafes and other restaurants lined up on both sides of the road, and was called the "Food wound Shindo".
In addition, there was a seating restaurant called "Kihara-tei" nearby.
This Yokocho is also a Yokocho where Soseki Natsume and Shiki Masaoka went to eat and drink and yoseki sights.
In Soseki's novels "Sanshiro" and "Kokoro", this Kihara store and yoseki are depicted, and a stone monument describing it
It is located in the corner of the left square, which entered this street from Chuo-dori.
On the left side of the monument of Soseki, there is a monument and an explanation board of "Meisui Shirakiya's Well".
In the current "Coledo Nihonbashi" area, there was "Shirakiya", one of the three major kimono shops in Edo during the Edo period.
Hikotaro Omura, the second generation head, invested his private property to dig wells, and when a single Kannon statue came out of the well, high-quality Shimizu springs out of the well, it was widely called `` Shiraki Meisui '' It is explained that it has been.
The square in which these two monuments are located is called "COREDO Nihonbashi Annex Square" and has designer chairs, tables and large wooden decks, making it a place to relax surrounded by water flows and trees.