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Did you know that there was a playground in Shintomi?
The figure above shows "Katsukei Tokyo Niijimahara" drawn by Kuniki Ichiyo in 1869 on "Shin Shimabara Yukaku" in Shintomi. Although it was a short period of the beginning of the Meiji era, there was such a fine playground in the town of Shintomi. A settlement was opened in Tsukiji in 1868, and transactions with foreign countries began in Tokyo. Since the Shogunate era, it was planned to create a playground for people from overseas as Eisaku, a connection to the opening market in Shintomi. In August 1868 (1868), a prostitute Nakamanjiya in Shin-Yoshiwara applied for a playground named "Shin-Shimabara" following Shimabara in Kyoto, and was granted permission in November. The figure below shows the map of "Nishimabara Yukakuyuki" and a modern map. Daimon turned to Irifune-cho, a strict enclosure was made using the Tsukiji River in the south, Omizo in the east, and Samurai residence in the west and north.
It was a wonderful `` Shin-Shimabara Yukaku '' with 65 prostitutes, 53 bureau girls, 59 teahouses, and 1,724 prostitutes, but even though I thought that people would come suddenly, there were fewer customers and there were few customers, It was like a quiet bird singing. The reason for this is that, in consideration of the safety of foreigners, a checkpoint was set up at the base of the bridge, and the samurai who entered the country had to be picked up and deposited with large and small swords. There are few merchants, mainly there were many missionaries, doctors, diplomats, etc., and because of unpopularity, "The situation of eating and drinking is unreasonable, and there are rumors of customers who have been a decrease in the situation where customers who have been a decrease in the price of eating and profits have decreased. Under such circumstances, the abolition was decided in June 1870, and in July 1871, the prostitute was moved to Shin-Yoshihara and closed in just two years and nine months.
The photo above is a bird's-eye view of Nakanomachi-dori from the "Daimon Ruins". Currently, there is no information board in the town of Shintomi, where the Shin-Shimabara Yukaku was located, and as shown in the photo, it has become an office district, and the image of the flower district has disappeared completely. However, it conveys the history of the area where the Shintomicho Daikinro Store in Tangible Cultural Property was a flower district. In writing this report, I referred to Kyobashi Library's "News from Local Room No. 65", "Walking in Chuo-ku", "Hundred Story of Tokyo Remaining (written by Masao Shimizu)", etc. .