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In this battle, warload of the Warring States period from all over the country led by Hideyoshi gathered, and 160,000 or 200,000 people surrounded Odawara Castle. The number is about the same as the current population of Chuo-ku.

During the camp, Ieyasu was also invited to the castle overnight. One of the most famous is the legend. It is a overnight castle overlooking Odawara Castle, and he is told a little disgusting while uribbing with Hideyoshi.

When you win, you will have to change the country to Kanto.

Today's development of Tokyo began with a spoofing service between Hideyoshi and Ieyasu at the castle overnight.

In the end, the castle of the whole structure was so strong that it could not be attacked inside, but the battle ended in the form of Mr. Hojo surrender, and soon after Hideyoshi achieved unification of the world.

Odawara at this time is said to be the most prosperous town in Kanto.

A strong castle with a solid structure that Hideyoshi could not attack power, water drawn into the castle ... The castles built in later Edo and the prototypes of Kanda Josui and Tamagawajosui already existed in Odawara at this time. Ieyasu must have referred to Odawara, a successful city during the Warring States period in building the Edo town.

<Odawara Irrigation Water, Japan's oldest water supply>

At that time, Edo was said to have been an undeveloped land. The people of Odawara were also attracted to build castles and towns here. "Odawara-cho" rises in Kitazume, a bridge in Nihonbashi. Zenzaemon, Odawara's Ishikiri ridge beamer, who was replaced by Ieyasu with stone processing technology, worships this Odawara town.

Since the Kanto region has few stone production sites, and the soil quality of the ROHM layer is suitable for the defense of the castle, stone walls were rarely used in castles in Kanto until then.

However, when constructing the latest technology stone walls during the construction of Edo Castle, good stones are produced from Odawara on the east bank of Izu Peninsula, so they are cut out for stone walls and transported to Edo. In addition, welded tuff collected at the Odawara City Wind Festival etc. is called "tado stone" and is said to have been used in Kanda Josui and Tamagawajosui.

<Ishichoba of Edo Castle on the western slope of Mt. Ishigaki>

The town of Odawara in Nihonbashi is thought to have been used as a storage place for the stones that have been transported, and it is believed that masonry who was active in the construction of Edo Castle and castle towns lived there. Also, Aonomachi and Yorozucho, which were located in Minamizume, Nihonbashi, are said to have been opened by the townspeople of Odawara's Aonomachi and Yorozucho, and it is said that many people of Odawara were active in the early Edo town. It means.

After that, Odawara-cho was moved to the land of Tsukiji, which was created by landfill after the great fire of the Meiryaku era in 1657. The name moved to the south side, so it became "Minami-Odawaramachi", and the original Odawaracho in Nihonbashi was named "Hon Odawaracho". It is said that Minami-Odawara-cho had already handled seafood at this time.

What remains of Odawara in today's Chuo-ku is the town name "Odawaracho" from the early Showa era to 1966 (Showa 41) at Tsukiji 6.7-chome? However, at present, only the Odawara-cho police box and the Tsukiji fish shore Odawarabashi ridge can be clearly seen.

<From the access passage on the Tsukiji Fish Bank in Chuo-ku>

The Tsukiji Fish Bank is a building built on the ruins of an old river, but a bridge used to be built under the connecting passage connecting the Odawara Bridge Building and the Kaiyuki Bridge Building. The name is "Odawarabashi".

The only remnants of rivers and bridges are concrete at the front of a white signboard building shop, and a slightly elevated road. However, one of the main pillars of Odawara Bridge was preserved in the Local Culture Museum on the site of Odawara Castle Ruins Park. Is it possible to read the letters on the plate? It is engraved with "Odawarahashi".

A few years ago, Odawara City took over from Chuo-ku.

Does the name "Odawara", which is disappearing from Chuo-ku, have returned to Odawara, the city of headwater, after more than 400 years? If you think so, there is something very impressive.

Kunio Yanagita, famous for his "Tono Monogatari" and folklore studies, introduces one of the legends of Tokyo in his "Legend of Japan" written in the early Showa era. It is a statue of a "cough aunt" in the Nakayashiki of the Tsukiji and Inaba families.

The Inaba family was a musician daimyo who served as Odawara feudal lord in the early Edo period from 1632 (Kanei 9) to 1685 (Tadayoshi 2). In particular, Masanori Inaba, the second generation, was a grandson of the Kasuga Bureau, and after the great fire of the Meiryaku era in Edo in 1657, he took office as an old man, and subsequently held key positions in the Shogunate.

The Inaba family in Odawara, who was the power of the time, worshiped a vast site near the site of the current Tsukiji Market, which was reclaimed after the great fire of the Meiryaku era. There is also a famous garden called "Efusangetsuro".

In Tsukiji in Chuo-ku, there was a strong connection with Odawara because there was Minami-Odawara-cho and the Inaba family Nakayashiki from its inception period.

After that, the site gradually became smaller, but there was a statue of a "cough old woman" in the site to cure a child's cough.

Now, the statue has been moved to Kofukuji Temple in Mukojima, Sumida-ku, east bank of Sakurabashi on the Sumida River, where you can pray for the eradication of illness.

However, when I actually went to Kofuku-ji Temple to check the legend of the statue or to check it on the net, it came out a lot and it was a strange situation. Each is different from the description of the "Legend of Japan", and it feels like the legend is also creating a new legend, and no longer knows what is right.

Based on Mr. Kunio Yanagida's story, if you summarize several stories without permission in "Chuo-ku", the following flow will be perfect.

◆In the early Edo period when the Inaba family was Odawara feudal lord, a pair of men and women, like the Dosojin, which was once in the city of Odawara, was enshrined in Odawara Castle. However, when the Inaba family was sealed to the Echigo Takada clan, he left Odawara and was moved to the Nakayashiki of the Inaba family in Tsukiji.
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◆Parents of children who were difficult due to pertussis, etc., asked the gatekeeper of this Tsukiji mansion and began to worship this stone.
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◆One day, it became a neatly carved stone statue with two statues, an old woman statue and an old man statue. It is the woman who cures the cough, the woman who protects the child, so only the statue of the old woman was valued, and the statue of the old man was separated, but at the time of application, beans and hare mochi were always made. Roasted goods and tea were offered to both stone statues.
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◆Since the site of Tsukiji was lost during the Meiji Restoration, it was moved to Kofukuji, a temple of Obakushu, which was founded by Masanori Inaba.

Tsukiji was later used as a naval land or as a market, but this story of Samurai residence during the Edo period may still exist as a legend.

I walked around the city of Tsukiji. In the past, there was the Nakayashiki of the Inaba family in Tsukiji. At Hashizume Square at the intersection of Shin-ohashi-dori St. Ichiba Bridge, there is a statue like a Dosojin, quietly watching the people who come and go.

If you look closely, you will have a military presence, a round stomach and a large earlobes. There are children on both shoulders. I wonder if it's a coincidence. I don't know if I have a large bag, but the shape is like a cloth bag.

Mr. Hotei ...

The Obaku sect of Kofuku-ji Temple, which was founded by Masanori Inaba, is often worshiped by Hotei, and Kofuku-ji Temple enshrines the statue of Hotei as one of the Sumida River Seven Lucky Gods, which has continued since the Edo period.

Hotei-sama is a god related to the Inaba family in Odawara.

Kunio Yanagita says in the "Legend of Japan" earlier.

"What is the difference between legends and folk tales? To answer that, old tales are like animals, and legends are like plants. Old tales fly around people, so you can see the same figure wherever you go, but the legend is rooted in one land, and it constantly grows.'

Old tales can be heard the same story no matter where you go, but legends change the object, shape, and take root as a legend of the land even in similar stories in various places.

It is said that the stones of "cough grandmother" are located all over the country, and there were more in the past. In the town of Tsukiji, Chuo-ku today, the legend of the Odawara Inaba family's "cough old woman" has taken root, and this Hotei is probably ...

It may be the legend of Odawara that has been around since the land of Tsukiji was born.

<Books/Information referenced>
★"Sengoku Castle" Tetsuo Owada and Gakken Shinsho / 2007
★"Ishikiri and Production Sites in Odawara that supported the Sengoku and Edo eras" Kensaku Sasaki, Shinsensha / 2019
★"Series Clan Story / Odawara Clan" Shimoshige Kiyoshi / Contemporary Calligraphy / 2018
★"Bra Tamori 5, Sapporo Otaru Nikko Atami Odawara", Kadokawa Shoten / 2016
★"Chuo-ku History Picture Book Kyobashi Hen / Nihonbashi Hen" Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library / 1996
★Odawara City HP / Odawara Bridge Commentary Sheet
★Commentary board in Odawara City
　・Ishigakiyama Castle (one night castle)
　・Hayakawa Ishichoba Group Seki Shirasawa Branch Group
　・Odawara Irrigation Water
★"Legend of Japan" Kunio Yanagita Aozora Bunko
★"Reliable God Encyclopedia", Tamio Tobe, PHP Institute / 2006
★Obaku Sou and Kofukuji homepage
★The article by correspondent yaz
★An article by correspondent Ginzo

Date of coverage:
　　Odawara 2022/05/04
　　Tsukiji and Mukaijima 2022/05/06