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Shinkawa was the first Japanese to ride a bicycle?
Shungaku Matsudaira, at the Fukui Domain House of Rei Kishijima
In Shinkawa, there was Edo Nakayashiki of the Fukui Domain during the Edo period. There is a story that the palace was riding a bicycle in this Nakayashiki at the end of the Tokugawa period when the Japanese first ride a bicycle.
Origin of the old town name Echizen moat in Shinkawa
In the Shinkawa area, there was a street name called Echizenbori before the town name was integrated in Shinkawa. Is it generally the southeast side of the Shinkawa district, the Sumida River side along Kajibashi Dori? The name of this town is derived from the fact that there was a Nakayashiki of the Fukui clan (Echizen) Matsudaira family in this area during the Edo period. This mansion is a vast mansion that extends from the banks of the Sumida River to the current Akimasa Elementary School. At the time when boating was the main logistics center, the feudal lord was Ieyasu's second son Hideyasu. Is it because it is Hideyasu? And the moat surrounding this Nakayashiki was called Echizen moat and became the origin of the town name. The moat was gradually reclaimed since the Meiji era, and a part that remained until the end of the Showa 40s (just around Chuo-ohashi Bridge) was reclaimed. Today, the name is barely left in Echizenbori Park.
The excavated stone wall stones are used in the city and in the park.
Both sides of this digging were stone walls so that the soil did not collapse, but they were excavated during road widening work. This stone wall stone is used for tree-planting stones along Yaesu-dori, which leads to Echizenbori Park and the excavated Chuo-ohashi Bridge, and an explanatory version is installed.
Explanation version of installation at Yaesu-dori near Shinkawa 2-chome intersection
Shungaku Matsudaira rides a bicycle while at the same time.
By the way, one of the daimyo who played an active part at the end of the Tokugawa period is Echizen Fukui feudal lord Yoshinaga Matsudaira (Shuntake). At the end of the Tokugawa period, he steered the Shogunate with Yoshinobu and others at the last time of the Shogunate as a heavyweight of the Kobu coalition, and at the beginning of the Meiji New Government, he took a heavy job.
Since this person belonged to the opponents of Naosuke Ii, he was ordered to retire in Ansei's prison, and there was a time when he was modest at the Fukui clan Nakayashiki in this Shinkawa. According to a diary that recorded this period, there is a statement on February 6, 1862 (1862) that he was riding a Virasvide self-driving car at a clan residence on Reigishima. It is thought that the Birasviide self-driving car was like a big tricycle and was restored in Fukui Prefecture several years ago. It seems to have assembled a landed in Yokohama and seems to be very different from modern bicycles. By the way, in a drama aired several years ago, there was a scene where Sakamoto Ryoma visited where Harutake was riding a bicycle. This was an early two-wheeled vehicle with a large front wheel and a small rear wheel.
He said he often got on after that, but was he modest and free? Well, I was so curious that I could have been active since then.
When I went to Fukui City for work on bicycles, I had time, so when I visited the nearby historical museum, I noticed that the explanation was "Reigishima" and I noticed (I asked the curator). Since it was written as Rei Kishijima (the old name of the whole Shinkawa) and the old name, I think that the current Chuo-ku Shinkawa is hardly known as the first bicycle ride.
Recently, when I find a relationship such as a place name in Chuo-ku while traveling, I will pay attention to it. Speaking of which, Sanai Hashimoto of clansman Fukui is also beheaded in Temmacho prison in Ansei's prison.