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The current Tsukuda 1-2-chome used to be "Ishikawajima".
Around Ishikawajima Park and Okawabata River City 21.

If you like era novels, you may come to Ishikawajima's people's footage.

So why does Ishikawajima say "Ishikawajima"?

The answer is "Ishikawa-san lived ~"!

In the early Edo period, the small islands on the Sumida River were called "Mikunishima", "Morishima" or "Armor Island".
Around 1626 (1626), Shoji Hachizaemon Ishikawa, the boatman, worshiped a land of about 17,000 tsubo from the Shogunate and built a yosu on the island, so it was called "Ishikawajima".
Shoji Hachizaemon Ishikawa was in the position of "Funate Head" and "Mifune Magistrate", and was in charge of storage and operation of the Shogunate Line. Therefore, it is probable that Ishikawajima had the function of defending Edo Minato.

Let's trace the transition of landfills around Ishikawajima on a map.

A map of the early Edo period, Edo Shozu, Bushu Toyoshima-gun (Edo, Kanei era) In 1632 (1632), Ishikawajima was barely drawn below.
If you look closely, the letters "Mikokushima Hachizaemon Ishikawa" are drawn.

Ishikawajima and Tsukudajima are depicted on the Sumida River in the mid-Edo period (1771) (from "Chuo-ku Historical Map Book-Tsukishima Hen-").

Tsukuda Island was named after its hometown in 1644 (1644), 18 years after Hachizaemon Ishikawa built the island, a fisherman from Tsukuda, Osaka Prefecture, worshiped from the Shogunate and settled in the name of his hometown. Thing.

Kansei 2nd Year's Nogata (1790) (From "Chuo-ku History Chart-Tsukishima Hen-")

After that, a reshuffle was gradually established on the southeast side of the site, and a peopleshore was placed in this place in 1790 (1790). It was Heizo Hasegawa, who was familiar with Shotaro Ikenami's novel "Onihei Criminal Book" and proposed to the old man Sadanobu Matsudaira to set up a crowd.

I still have the name of the Ishikawa family. The Ishikawa family had lived for 151 years since the worship, but returned the site to the Shogunate and moved to Kojimachi Nagatacho.

Two years later, the area where Ishikawa Osumimori was written as a place for people to visit, and the whole Ishikawajima became a place for people to visit.

The fountain was a facility with the aim of teaching work to light criminals and non-juku people and making them independent after leaving the place. It was more humanitarian than forced labor at Sado Kanayama, which was a conventional anti-stay measure.

Pay attention to the shape of the island! You can feel this sharp shape on the current map!

From "Chuo-ku History Map Collection-Tsukishima Hen-"

It is Tadataka Ino Edo actual measurement map (1817) of the late Edo period.

In addition, land reclamation progressed, and Ishikawajima and Tsukuda Island became united.

Once again, if you compare it with the modern map, you can see which part it is.

Tsukudajima (Mitsudai Hiroshige) 1869 (1869)

What is drawn in the back is Ishikawajima Lighthouse.

Junki Shimizu, a magistrate of Hitoshishoba, uses the proceeds of oil squeezing produced at Hitoshishoba to inform the ship entering Nihonbashi from Edo Bay. It was a nightlight made on the west bank of Hitoshishoba in 1866 (1866).

At present, there is a building on the ruins of this lighthouse that imitates the appearance of the time.

In the Meiji era, the Tsukishima area was further reclaimed.

The origin of this is Ishikawajima.

Why don't you enjoy walking around Ishikawajima while sometimes feeling the border of the island?