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The exterior does not look very like a shrine.

Perhaps 100, 100, 100.

There is a offertory box, so it will be a worship mood.

It is Ubusunagami on the banks of Hakozaki-cho.

There's a small company on the back.

This time, I will show you the Edo classical rakugo.

It's the 25th time.

This time, I chose "Abumatsu".

It is a story of the Yokozuna Izumi Kaido, "Leave Your Name forever" from the word "Eternal Inari".

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Midorinosuke Abumatsu:

The 6th Yokozuna, a real sumo wrestler from the Edo period.

At present, there are Abumatsu room, Abumatsu master, and Makuuchi wrestler, Abusaki.

"Abumatsu" seems to have been taken from the famous place in Choshu Hagi (now Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture), "Abu no Matsubara".

It is said that the name is related to Choshu, a great source.

In addition, as with Abumatsu master, Takekuma and Shikoroyama remain as old names for sumo wrestling.

Kanze Jinmichi ...

It is now called "Ginza Gas Lantern Street".

"Kyobashi no" is explained in the story, but around Ginza 3-chome and 4-chome.

As you know, Ginza Wako, if you set the main street as "Chuo-dori", would it be easy to understand if you say "Ginza Gaslight Street" will be the back street?

"Ginza Gas Light Street" will be explained after the introduction of the story.

"Abumatsu,"

Chokichi, who visited Sekitori and Bunemon Bukuma on the Kanze Shindo in Kyobashi from the country of Noto with the aim of sumo wrestling, received the name of Oguruma, and became a disciple, but ... .

A large eater who eats three shos of rice a day, this is an enemy and has a minute of money and gives free time.

In an attempt to return to his hometown through Nakasendo, he was prepared to die near Itabashi-juku, stayed at Hatago, and had at least a meal before throwing himself.

Give the inn a minute of money, order only rice, and start eating.

The owner of the inn, Zenbei Tachibanaya, will come to see the food.

If you tell Zenbei about the background of the gate, you will be introduced to Nezu's master.

At the beginning, he enters from "Komidori", which was previously attached by the master of the mountain, and claims to be "Koyanagi".

Therefore, he played against the former teacher, Takekuma, and threw it brilliantly and cheered.

Eventually, he called himself "Abumatsu Midorinosuke" and was said to have made a great success with Yokozuna.

This is Ginza, not Nihonbashihakozakicho, where permanent Inari Shrine is built.

As it is said that there was the room of Takekuma, the first teacher of Abumatsu, "Kanze Shindo".

The current "Ginza Gaslight Street" is around Ginza 4-chome.

It is Ginza 3-chome on the back.

In front of this street, the left side of Harumi-dori St. is "Ginza Wako".

And the gas lamps in front of the car and the pedestal are the "Ginza gas lamps" explanation board in the image below.

Explanation board of "Ginza gas lamps".

The first gas lamps were laid in Japan in 1872 in Yokohama in 1872.

Two years later, in 1874, in 1874, the city of Ginza began to light, and gas lamps were said to be a symbol of Civilization and enlightenment and became a hot topic at the time.

This gas lamp was restored in 1985 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tokyo Gas.

[The figure shows Hiroshige (3rd generation) painting]

"Tokyo Famous Places, Part of Ginza Street Brick Street"　

Near Ginza 1-chome, where the turnout (lighting person) kills two sticks and puts a fire on the gas lamp.

22-11, Nihonbashihakozakicho

Exit A2 at Ningyocho Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line and Toei Asakusa Line, and turn right at Ningyocho-dori in front (the opposite direction of one-way cars).

It is about 550m including "Suitengu Street" that runs across the Suitengu Shrine, right at the first traffic light beyond the Tokyo City Air Terminal, and right at the next corner.