Minato kid

The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

Episode 4 The Meijo Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out. 

 

 

 Finally, the winter decisive battle!

 It is the day of the Chuo-ku Tourism Certification.

 I studied thoroughly until last night. I also read "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia", and I looked into this year's theme as much as I could come up with it. So I'm sure it's okay…。

 Still, the more I think, the more I feel that there was still something I could do, and the more I feel squinted. In my head, I wondered if it was like this, this was this, and I wondered if it was like this, and the part I knew so far became completely white, and rushed to `` walk We open Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia ".

 Then a yellow little bird came there. The window is a little open so that the little bird can come in at any time. It's a bit cold this season.

 Good morning, we say.

"Oh, are you still studying?"

"I don't mean studying, just check it out."

 I make an excuse.

"On the morning of departure, it's best not to be warm and calm."

 For such a little bird

"Yes, that's right,"

 While saying, I bring my face closer to the page and follow the letters at a tremendous speed.

 The yellow little bird laughed at it.

 I raised my face,

"Let's have rice?"

 I have a smile.

 Bake the toast and make some coffee. For a little bird, I'll put milk in a small plate. Fill the fruit with salad and butter on the toast.

 Have breakfast with Kotori on the round table.

 The inside of the room is warmed up. There, a cool winter wind enters through a window that has been opened for the little bird. This is also nice.

 Then, strangely, I felt that the names of historical landmarks scattered in my body, the gods of shrines, the origins of festivals and town names were being organized in each place.

 Yes, I have to do it!

 I thought so and took a deep breath, and a yellow little bird was watching me.

"Fight!"

 And he hung a yellow feather in the sky.

 

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

 I walked to the venue, Courtyard Marriott Ginza Tobu Hotel with a yellow little bird on my shoulder.

 When I crossed the pedestrian bridge from Minato and entered Akashicho, I saw the Tsukiji Catholic Church. At the intersection of the settlement Chuo-dori and Idomeji-dori, there are gas lamps and brick walls of Meiji period, where this area was a foreign settlement.

 And I stop my feet and read the information board that I read many times again.

 In 1858, Japan, which signed the Japan-US Osamu Treaty of Commerce and Trade, opened Hakodate, Niigata, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki, and opened Tokyo and Osaka. In 1868, Tsukiji foreign settlements were established in the current Akashicho area.

"But at first, there weren't many people gathering,"

 And the yellow little bird.

"Yes. When the railway was opened between Shimbashi and Yokohama in 1872, foreign merchants returned to Yokohama on a day trip, not just at Tsukiji's foreign settlement."

"It was a Christian missionary and a doctor who had entered there. Gradually, churches and mission schools were lined up, and the streets were born with exotic atmosphere."

"Yes, I don't like that!"

 The surrounding Irifune, Minato, and Tsukiji area were adjacent to the settlement, so there were many shops for foreigners. It is now Irifune 3-chome that bread was baked for the first time in Tokyo and leather shoes were made for the first time in Japan.

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

 The cross of St. Luke Chapel at St. Luke International Hospital is bathed in the morning sun. It has always been popular with people as a landmark of Akashicho.

 Go straight along the residential area Chuo-dori. I met a multi-story parking lot in the former Tsukiji Market. This is the place where the Tsukiji Hotel was located.

"It opened in 1868. The place where the park is now located is exactly the wharf, and a ship from Yokohama arrived. Foreign merchants got off the boat there, and the first thing they see was this Tsukiji Hotel Building."

 Designed by the second generation Kisuke Shimizu, there was a tower in the center of the symmetrical building, with a bell hanging there, tile roofing roof, namako wall exterior, and 102 guest rooms. It is said that it was called a beautiful hotel like a picture and attracted the attention of people.

"There was a veranda in each room, and I wanted the sea."

"At that time, the area near the mouth of the Sumida River would have been a large ocean.…」

 I and the yellow little bird are engrossed.

 However, only a short time after it was completed, in 1872, the great fire of Ginza destroyed this Tsukiji Hotel. Like a dream…。

 

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

 Take advantage of the Tsukiji Outer Market and walk along Harumi-dori St., and it's already Higashiginza.

 The big sign of the East drama comes into my eyes. Let's go into the alley of the back. Condominiums, buildings, restaurants, etc. are narrow on the narrow road until you reach the Social Education Center.

 It's a lonely road where the sun is blocked by the building, but it's also a road that gives a strange impression. Because the balustrade of the condominium's veranda is curved and fashionable, or because the hustle and bustle of the main street is far away like a lie, or because the sea is so different.…。 If you say all of them as the remnants of foreign settlements, it seems straightforward.

When I went on a wide road and turned to the right, I approached Saijo Bridge.

"I've never crossed the Uneme Bridge.…。 Yeah, do you read it? What does it mean?…」

 There is a park in Hashizume Square, which is named Tsukiji River Seijobashi Park. There was a monument of the bridge in front of the park. I and the yellow little bird read that he bent down and blows.

 In the early Edo period, there was a residence of Masamasa Matsudaira in this area. After a great fire in 1724, this area became a fire protection area, and it was called "the woman was Hara."

 It is the Tsukiji River that flows below, but now it is an expressway and cars are running. At that time, the Tsukiji River curved just here, and the scenery was beautiful.

 Since the beginning of the Meiji era, it is located in a location connecting Ginza Brick Street and Tsukiji Foreign Residents' Settlement, so it was said that the Western scent was quickly drifting.

 There, a somewhat fashionable pigeon crossed the bridge with a stick. She was wearing a cap like a silk hat and a flashy newspaper.

"♪ The willows of Ginza that I miss a long time ~"

 I'm singing.

 I and the yellow little bird were taken and looked at it.

"Oh, I'm sorry,"

 Said the pigeon, and then

"What I was singing now is 'Tokyo March'. The beginning of "Ginza willows" is Ginza willow that is nice to plant ♪. You are often mistaken."

 Yeah…And I and the yellow little bird nodded without knowing it.

"I'm walking from Ginza Brick Street. Are you?"

 And the stylish dove looked up at us with his neck.

"From Minato, I came through Akashicho and Tsukiji."

 If you answer that, you'll find it! And the pigeon rang.

"Awesome! You came from Tsukiji foreign settlement, and I came from Ginza Brick Street! "

 I and the yellow little bird meet each other.

"What a wonderful! It's two Western cultures that are at Saijobashi!"

 And gently closed his eyes, and this time cried a little bit. Something seems to be very impressed.

 On the balustrade of Saijobashi, the Tsukiji Hotel Building and the willow pattern of Ginza are designed.

"Maybe this is it?"

 I'll try to speak out gently.

 The pigeon opened only one eye, and saw me and the yellow little bird.

"The brick street along Ginza Street was completed in 1873."

 Said with a striking gesture.

"Sure, after the great fire in Ginza, Yuri Fair, the then Governor of Tokyo, raised the slogan in order to create a non-combustible city that can withstand the fire, right? The design was Thomas J. Wartors, a foreigner who hired me."

 I think of the number of pages of "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia", which can be walked on.

"Let's go! 85 gas lamps lit Ginza Street and turned the night into daytime! I nailed the people's eyes. The beautiful Western-style streets that symbolize Civilization and enlightenment have been completed! At first, pine, maple, and cherry blossoms were planted on the street trees, but soon they died, and when they planted willows, they completely took root."

 But…And the fancy dove pulled down as if a little depressed.

"It was a brick town that was completed, but the brick houses didn't fit well with the Japanese constitution, so they were not very popular at all.…」

 There! And the pigeon raised his face vividly,

"Newspaper companies have entered the market! The magazine companies and advertising companies gradually gathered, and Ginza became the city at the forefront of the times, transmitting the latest information at once. I was actually working for a newspaper company."

 Oh~! And when I and the yellow little bird were surprised, the stylish pigeon was

"I'm a legendary pigeon!"

And he winked.

"It was in 1895 that Densho pigeon delivered the news for the first time in Japan. The Tokyo Asahi Shimbun quickly adopted a biography pigeon. The reporter goes to the site with the pigeons, puts the articles he wrote and wrote in a communication tube, striking them to the pigeon and flying them. We flew dozens of kilometers, hundreds of kilometers. I crossed the Pacific Ocean while being hit by rain and exposed to strong winds. However, I want to convey this news, with my heart…」

 The stylish dove was in tears.

"The pigeons have become the role of Internet communication in modern times," he said.

 And the yellow little bird spoke carefully.

"Let's go! At the most common time, there were 300 biography pigeons working in the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. The branch offices in Yokohama, Chiba, and Hachioji had regular biography pigeon flights, and pigeons went back and forth twice a day. After the camera turned from a dry plate to a film, photos can now be carried. Of course, many biography pigeons were also active in other newspaper companies! "

 And the stylish pigeon sighed,

"But the times have changed.…」

 He said.

"From around 1961, Densho pigeons disappeared. Communication technology has increased dramatically, and machines have come to dove work. The Asahi Shimbun Tokyo headquarters made a monument to honor the achievements of our biography pigeon. Before moving to Tsukiji, there seems to be a bronze statue of a biography pigeon in Yurakucho Marion, where the head office was located."

 That's right.…And I and the yellow little bird were shy.

 

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

 The stylish pigeon flew over and stopped on the balustrade.

"Do you know that there was Seiyoken there?"

 And he turned his wings to the other side of the bridge. It's just across Hashizume Square, where the monument is located. I wonder if it is on the upper right bank. Now there is a beautiful big building. It says Jiji News Agency.

"This was the first head office of Seiyoken in Ueno now."

"Is that so?"

 I and the yellow little bird show up.

"It was 1873. A full-fledged Western restaurant has been born with accommodation for foreigners, just like taking over the disappearing Tsukiji Hotel Building. There were twelve guest rooms, a Western-style building with a tile roofing-built roof, with a magnificent gate and pine trees planted in the front yard. Rickshaws and carriages came and went along the streets of Saijobashi, making you feel the wind of a foreign country."

 And the pigeon furnished his chest,

"Nonetheless, there was a long way of hardship before it opened here…」

 I thought about it.

"The story begins when Shigetake Kitamura, the creator of Seiyoken, picked up an old restaurant at Tsukiji 3-chome, Kosetsuken.

 It was around 1870. There is no gas lamp or, of course, electricity. It was such a long time ago that only the light of the candles vaguely dissolve through shoji door in the night town of jet-black darkness.

 Koyukiken is a restaurant that serves Nagoya cuisine, and was popular with literary ink customers. In addition, the scent of foreign countries was drifting, such as the Iris Shokai set up a store. It's 3-15 Tsukiji, so it's on the upper left bank at the base of Samebashi.

 However, the area around here is later called as a site for the warship training center. I had no choice but to move the store to the base of the one bridge over Sansanbori, later Kibori Bridge. At that time, it was called Kobikicho 5-chome. That's why a big fire in Ginza takes place.

 Seiyoken has also burned down. So the following year, the upstream side of the right bank of Saijo Bridge, yes, I moved here and achieved great development! "

 The stylish dove looked up at the sky,

"At any time, Seiyoken never left the Seijo Bridge, right?…」

 He said deeply.

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

"By the way, it was Chari Hesss, a German Swiss man who was invited by the chef of Seiyoken."

"Maybe, Mr. Chari Hess of Chari's house?"

 When I put myself on, the pigeon is puppy! Cried.

"Let's go! Chari Hess is the first person to bake bread in Tokyo. In 1874, we set up a shop at Irifune 3-chome. The taste of the bread skin in Chari-sha was exceptional. After that, I built a champagnecider and bread factory at Tsukiji 5-chome, where I put a box car on the donkey every morning, and delivered bread to customers. It's wonderful!"

 And the pigeon turned his nose up, as if it smelled the bread.

"I delivered it to foreigners living in the settlements, Western restaurants, and St. Luke Hospital. There have been more and more bakeries after Chari's house."

 Yeah…And the pigeon puts his index finger.

"Ginyuki Kishida, who made eye drops under the name of Seishimizu and set up a store in Ginza, learned from Dr. Hebon. When Dr. Hebon opened a clinic in a foreign settlement in Yokohama, he gave the patient bread and milk. After all, because of the high nutritional value, patients who ate bread have recovered quickly.

That's why the marines at Tsukiji's warship training center were also eating bread. This is due to the fact that Eisaburo Kimura, the second generation of Kimuraya, who is famous in Ginza, sent generous bread when he was still undergoing trial and error. In addition, Kanehiro Takaki, the founder of the Jikei Medical University of Tokyo, noted that naval soldiers were less likely to behaved and recommended bread to patients after all."

"This area can be said to be the birthplace of bread food culture!"

 I and the yellow little bird were impressed and nodded.

 If you say more…And the pigeon looked at him as if he were striking. And then

"What do you think is the first place to bake bread in Tokyo?"

 I heard it. We don't know…I think about it. Then,

"It's Tsukiji Hotel Building!"

 And the stylish dove rang the ground with a stick.

"It was the beginning of the history of bread in Tokyo that the French chef Louis Veguy baked French bread!"

 Oh~! Great! And I and the yellow little bird slept behind him.

 At that time, I'm frustrated.

"Oh, don't! I'll be late!"

"Oh? Where are you going?"

 And a stylish pigeon that makes it strange.

"From now on, it's the Chuo-ku Tourism Certification!"

 I said, and the arrows and shields began to run. I started running, suddenly stopped, and looked back again. A stylish pigeon was looking at it.

"Thank you!"

 I put my head on it. And the pigeon,

"Go for it!"

 Then he shook his hat into the sky, and wandered around.

 

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

 After the exam, when I left the venue, a yellow little bird was waiting for me while drinking milk in the lounge.

"Don't you!"

 And the yellow little bird.

 I was full of what I wanted to check right now and what I deepened my thoughts, and as soon as I saw the yellow little bird, I was talking with me.

"Hey, go straight along the Eitai-dori St. and hit the bridge over the Kamejima River. What is that bridge? That's right, that bridge, right? Hey, he's gone."

 If you think he said,

"The pillar outside the Tsukiji Catholic Church is the Doris style, isn't it? Doria is all right? Doris and Doria are different?"

 If you think he said,

"It's GINZA SIX that there is Kakugo Inari, right? Did you walk near you?'

 And the words overflowed one after another, and they never stopped.

"Yes, yes,"

 And the yellow little bird laughed in a ridiculous manner.

 And I was a little relieved to loosen my shoulders.

"The rest is to leave it to God."

 And the yellow little bird says.

 Yes, I nodded.

 

 I walk home with the yellow little bird.

 When I crossed the Seijo Bridge, the position of the sun was higher than before, and it was full of glittering and cheerful daytime signs.

 Then the fashionable pigeon was sitting on the balustrade of the Saijo Bridge and reading the newspaper. When we find us

"Go back!"

 Then he lifted his hat and bowed.

 I and the yellow little bird smiled and walked together side by side.

"This is the birthplace of 'print'!"

 And the fashionable pigeon guided me. It's an alley sandwiched between tall buildings, coming here from Saijo Bridge, crossing Harumi-dori St., and entering a little back from Tsukiji River.

"In 1873, Tomiji Hirano later founded the Tokyo Tsukiji Printing Works, where he began manufacturing and selling print and print printing machines. Of course, this comes from the fact that many newspaper companies gathered in Ginza Brick Street."

 Said the pigeon proudly. Speaking of which, I think.

"There are still a lot of printing shops in Minato and Irifune."

 Then the fashionable pigeon happily inflated the feathers.

"Awesome! In the past, there were many people who walked to a newspaper company in Ginza from that area to work. Everyone, when they learned printing techniques, they got an old typographic printing machine and started a printing shop at home. I heard that there were a lot of office supplies for printing."

"So, from Ginza to Tsukiji, Irifune, Minato, you can say that this area is the birthplace of printing culture!"

 When I and the yellow little bird clap their hands, the pigeon is Bravo! He said.

 

 

"I want to eat some bread!"

 I and the yellow little bird said so far from either side, and decided to buy bread and go home.

"As the pigeon mentioned earlier, Samebashi had connected two Western cultures."

 And I embrace a big package.

"That's a new Western culture!"

 It's a sweet bread of freshly baked bread.

"Tsukiji Foreign Settlements and Ginza Brick Street are the same in that the original purpose was not successful, and a unique culture was born. Thanks to that, the history of this town has become much more interesting! "

"Tsukiji Foreign Settlement has become an attractive town with no people gathering at all in places prepared for business transactions, instead of churches, mission schools, and hospitals.

 Ginza Brick Street did not suit the lifestyle and constitution of the Japanese people, but instead there were few people who wanted to live, newspaper companies gathered and became a city that led the times."

 And the yellow little bird.

"Nothing goes well from the beginning,"

 I think. Also, because it doesn't work, I feel like a story is born. I guess that's what makes the town shine.

"I don't know what I'd like to do."

 Said the yellow little bird.

"We have no choice but to keep walking now."

"Yes, that's right,"

 We return to Tsukiji's foreign settlement, and once again recall the words of the stylish pigeon.

"Saijobashi is a bridge where Tsukiji foreign settlement and Ginza Brick Street and two newly born Western cultures come out!"

 And he was wrapped in the savory scent of bread.

 

Continue

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

 

♪ References "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia", Chuo-ku Tourism Association / "Tokyo First Story Ginza / Tsukiji / Akashicho" Masao Shimizu Rokukasha 1998 / "Large Study of Pigeons" Toshihide Kunimatsu PHP Institute 2005 / "Bread 1967 History" Bread History 1967

 

 The serial novel "Kimagure Minato News" Episode 4 Uneme Bridge is a bridge where two Western cultures come out.

Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association
No. 122 April 13, 2021