Koedo Itabashi

"Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

 

The fifth bridge is counted from the mouth of the Sumida River.

Eitai Bridge.

The color of the blue paint and the shape of the gentle curve make you imagine the near future.

The massive bridge made of steel arches is a nationally designated important cultural property.

 

Eitai Bridge was built in Genroku 11 (1698).

One theory is that he celebrated the 50th anniversary of the 5th Shogun Tsunayoshi Tokugawa, and is Keigana with the wish of continuing for many years to come.

By the way, while promoting Bunji politics, Tsunayoshi was ridiculed by the common people as a dog public.

I wanted to find a little bit of the figure, which was highly praised.

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

Fujimi Ogura is one of the three-story towers that exist at the site of the Edo Castle Honmaru. At the time of special opening of the Imperial Palace and the Imperial Palace.

 

Tsunayoshi was born in Edo Castle in 1646 as the fourth son of the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.

Following the eldest brother's rope, he was sentenced to Shogun at the age of 35 in Yanbao 8 (1680).

Until he was no longer 64 years old in Hoei 6 (1709), he was at the forefront of politics (the festival) for 28 years and 5 months.

Tsunayoshi's early measures were praised as "Tenna no Osamu", and the 8th Shogun Yoshimune has taken advantage of that direction in the reform of Kyoho.

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

After the castle tower was burned down in the great fire of the Meiryaku era (1659), it was used as a substitute for the castle tower.

 

However, extreme measures such as the "decree of life mercy" became synonymous with evil politics throughout the Edo period.

There is also a theory that a number of tasks that should run on the public road and saliva beyond ethics were later adapted, but it cannot be denied that they had such darkness.

 

A book by Naoki Prize-winning writer "Makate Asai" was caught on a bookstore's flat stack.

Shueisha Bunko, a summer book.

"The worst general,"

The fact that the title shows is the fifth general was immediately linked.

How do a female writer draws the darkness of Tsunayoshi's evil rebellion?

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

Yushima Seido Temple (1-chome, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku). You can see Taiseiden from the Kyodanmon gate.

 

Yushima Seido Temple was founded by Tsunayoshi in Genroku 3 (1690) with the aim of promoting Confucianism.

It became a school under the direct control of the Shogunate during the later Kansei period.

It is Shoheizaka Gakuin.

 

Tsunayoshi aimed at a government that changed the spirit of killing the Sengoku, encouraged learning, and governed with virtue.

It uses the "text" of the law, not the war.

It was accompanied by a severe punishment.

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

 

Taiseiden. It worships the statue of Confucius and the wise men.

After being burned down by the Great Kanto Earthquake, it was rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1935, designed by Dr. Chuta Ito.

The roof is copper-plated and shines in patina.

The head beast erupts at both ends from the holy water. The god of water that seals fire.

Tatsuko Kiryu, who resembles a lion, is also glaring from the roof.

It is said that it is an imaginary spiritual beast that appears in the virtue of a saint.

(A lot of sacred beasts were also lurking in Tsukiji Honganji, designed by Dr. Chuta Ito.)

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

It was donated by Lions Clubs in Taipei City.

It is the largest statue of Confucius in the world.

 

Daijuji Temple is located in Okazaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Bodaiji Temple, the shogun's family, is lined with plaques of successive shoguns up to the 14th generation.

It is said that it was made life-size according to the height at the end of the day.

Tsunayoshi's spirit tablet is 124cm.

According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's School Health Statistics Survey in 2017, the average height of second-grade elementary school boys is 122.5 cm.

The number of adult men in the Edo period was about 155 cm.

 

The author expresses that, through Nobuko Takatsukasa, the Odaisho, "Because the work is beautiful, the shoulders and back of Tsunayoshi seemed to have stronger light than anyone."

Tsunayoshi loved Sarugaku Mai and Noh.

The beauty of the work trained in Noh gave a majesty that undermines the greatness of Kego.

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

A statue of a dog in the "Enclosure" in front of the Nakano-ku Ward Office.

 

A dog protection facility called the "Enclosure House" located in Nakano.

The area was about 300,000 tsubo, and at one time it was housed as many as 100,000 dogs.

In recent years, there has been a movement to consider and reevaluate the "decree of life mercy" as part of Bunji politics based on Confucianism.

It prohibits abandoned children, prohibits the abandonment of the injured, and prohibits the killing of creatures.

In order to obey the law, he took strict punishment.

 

The author tells Kenpel, a doctor who accompanied Dutch trading post's Edo Sanfu.

"There is no one in Tomoe, Europe, such as the king who ordered him to value life, like this country of Fuso."

 

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

A stone monument standing at the site of the Edo Castle Honmaru

 

In the reign of Tsunayoshi, natural disasters that could be called "worst" were rushing one after another.

A series of great fires, earthquakes, floods, famines, eruptions of Mount Asama, and massive eruptions of Mount Fuji.

On March 14, 1701, Takumi Asanouchi, the role of the Imperial Court's treat, reached a blade wound to Kira Uenosuke in the Edo Castle Matsuno corridor.

How do you deal with it?

The suffering of those who move politics continues.

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

Kannondo (main hall) in Gokokuji Temple (5-chome Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku).

 

Gokokuji was founded in 1681 in the first year of Tenwa (1681) at the request of Tsunayoshi's mother Katsura Shoin.

Tsunayoshi is repairing and rebuilding many shrines and temples, and restoring the tombs of successive emperors.

 

The author draws a figure of Tsunayoshi holding his hands, kneeling, and hanging his head.

It is a figure of praying to heaven, Shinto and Buddha.

"The people of Fuso will always stand up no matter what disaster encounters."

 

 "Worst General", the remnants of Tsunayoshi

 

As I followed the sentences, I felt as if I were walking around Edo Castle with haori hakama.

As I continued reading while comparing the composition of the Edo Castle palace, the sound of the clothing rubbing of the daimyo, samurai, and women in Oku who came and went through the palace came and went.

 

When I left the main hall of Gokokuji Temple and reached the Furomon Gate, I found Nyanko's too relaxing, not a dog.

There was a figure full of peace of a navel cat, not a sleeping cat.