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Sake culture of the Edo period looking back in a new way of life
Hello. The active activity is Hanes, who has been resting for a while.
This year, with the spread of telecommuting and the shortening of business hours at restaurants, the number of people holding online drinking parties and drinking alcohol at home increased.
Some of our correspondent blog readers may have more opportunities to drink at home than to drink outside.
This time, I would like to take a hint from such a social phenomenon and focus on one side of Chuo-ku during the Edo period under the theme of "sake".
The Role of the Canal and Shinkawa and Masaru Shinkawa Jingu Shrine
As other correspondents have introduced, there are many shops in Chuo-ku where you can enjoy delicious domestic and foreign sake.
It is such Chuo-ku, how was it during the Edo period?
The answer is naturally understood when you know the canal Shinkawa, which is said to have been excavated by Zuiken Kawamura in 1660.
Shinkawa plays the role of a riverbank that unloads goods from ships and functions as an important canal until it was reclaimed in 1948.
In the Edo period, it prospered as a wholesaler of downhill sake brought from above the famous sake brewery.
At that time, sake was packed in wooden barrels and transported to Edo by a special barrel boat, but at that time, Komo was wrapped around (the beginning of Komokaburi) to prevent damage to the barrels (the beginning of Komokaburi), Komo was designed to show the characteristics of each brand in order to distinguish it from other brands. (Reference: Masaru Shinkawa Myojin's "Consecration Sake Komono Taru" information board)
Founded in 1625, Masaru Shinkawa Myojin has been revered as a guardian deity for sake wholesalers and sake brewers. It is said that when young sake arrives every year, he dedicated his first ears to Shinzen, and then sold young sake.
On the premises, Komo barrels, etc., which can be reminiscent of Shinkawa at that time, are dedicated.
I didn't drink sake myself, and I had nothing to do with these topics so far.
However, taking advantage of this social phenomenon, when I examined the history of sake in Chuo-ku, I was able to meet interesting canal roles and places related to sake.
In the future, I would like to be able to do a little more Fukahori about the design of barrel boats, down liquor wholesalers, and Komono.♪