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What was the riverbank that used to be located west of the southern part of Edobashi?


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Near Edobashi in the Edo period, there was a riverbank named after a certain place name. Well, how many riverbanks are you?
Options: ①Choshi 2 Kisarazu 3 Shinagawa 4 Sagami

[The 42nd Excursion Series] Hiroshige Utagawa and Katsushika Hokusai are also available! What was the riverbank that used to be located west of the southern part of Edobashi?


Answer: ②Kisarazu

As detailed in the “News from Local Room” No. 159 issued by the Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library, Kisarazu Riverbank that once contributed greatly to the water traffic between Edo (Hashimoto Funamachi) and Kisarazu on the banks of Edobashi. There was.

According to "News from Local Room" and "Ayumi of Kisarazu Port" issued by Chiba Prefecture, 12 out of 24 water owners (kako) from Kisarazu Village who joined the Osaka Winter Team in 1614 died in the war and survived. It is said that he served as a row for military rice and prayed to the Shogunate for relief for the bereaved family.
As a result, Ieyasu Tokugawa was given them the right to row about 20,000 stones of castle rice near Kisarazu Village and the right to use the banks of Hon Funamachi for passenger mail.
However, a lawsuit was later filed with Hon Funamachi, and the banks of Kisarazu moved to the west side of the southern part of Edobashi on the opposite bank.
In the Meiji era, it became a government-owned riverbank, renamed Yokkaichi River Bank, and was abolished in the early 1980s.

Currently, it corresponds to the Nihonbashi 1-chome Middle Area redevelopment area, and in the surrounding area, the Gofuku Bridge and Edobashi Entrance were abolished in May 2021 due to the underground project in the Nihonbashi area of the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway toward 2040.

[The 42nd Excursion Series] Hiroshige Utagawa and Katsushika Hokusai are also available! What was the riverbank that used to be located west of the southern part of Edobashi?


The waterway between Edo and Kisarazu is half the distance compared to land, and at that time many people used the waterway.
In addition, the Kisarazu ship (commonly known as the Five Great Power Ship), which piles many rice bales, is famous, depicted on the Kazusa Kisarazu Sea of Hiroshige Utagawa's Fuji thirty-six Views, and is also written in Shiki Masaoka's Haiku. Was.
In addition to Hiroshige Utagawa, Katsushika Hokusai and Issa Kobayashi also visited Kisarazu using the Kisarazu ship, which led to the development of Kisarazu by introducing Edo trends and customs.

[The 42nd Excursion Series] Hiroshige Utagawa and Katsushika Hokusai are also available! What was the riverbank that used to be located west of the southern part of Edobashi?

From the exterior of Kisarazu City Tourist Information Center


Nowadays, it is difficult to check the banks of Kisarazu near Edobashi, and its name remained on maps and works at that time.
However, when I visited Kisarazu, I thought there might be something discovery, so I went to the city a while ago.

First of all, we headed to Kisarazu Port and took a walk around the area.

[The 42nd Excursion Series] Hiroshige Utagawa and Katsushika Hokusai are also available! What was the riverbank that used to be located west of the southern part of Edobashi?

Current state of Kisarazu Port


Then, I saw a torii, a shrine, and a monument standing in a residential area.
If you look closely, isn't it engraved as "Kisarazu-Kita Kashino"!
This monument, built in 1975, confirmed the names of fishing boats and those who seemed to be captains, including the names of Kisarazu Fishery Cooperative and its officers.
Kitagawa Beach is one of the banks in Kisarazu, and there were people who left around here for Edo about 400 years from now.

[The 42nd Excursion Series] Hiroshige Utagawa and Katsushika Hokusai are also available! What was the riverbank that used to be located west of the southern part of Edobashi?


In addition, a regular route was connected to Meiji period between Reigishi Shimakoshi Maehata and Kisarazu and Minamikatamachi, and an old steamboat was operated.
Actually visiting Kisarazu City has made unexpected discoveries, and I was suddenly interested in other riverbanks that used to be in Nihonbashi.
I would like to continue to focus on Nihonbashi, which has been a cluster of people, goods, information, etc. since the Edo period!

As an aside, along the Hakozaki River, which flowed between Nihonbashikoamicho and Kakigara-cho, used to be the "Gyotoku Riverside".
It was used for transporting parcels and passengers, but it seems that it was especially used by many people, especially for visiting Naritasan Shinsho-ji Temple.

Reference website

National Diet Library “Reference Cooperative Database”, Shiki’s Haiku “Fukagawa and Kisarazu Ship Year Basket” https://crd.ndl.go.jp/reference/modules/d3ndlcrdentry/index.php?page=ref_view&id=1000232463 (viewed on September 13, 20222)
National Diet Library Digital Collection “Kisarazu River Bank of Japan” https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2532660 (viewed September 13, 2022)
“Ayumi of Kisarazu Port” in Chiba Prefecture https://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/kouwan/toukeidata/nenpou/kisarazuport-ayumi.html (envised on September 13, 2022)
Chiba Prefecture “Connecting Boso and Edo by Ship” https://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/kyouiku/seisaku/shou-chuu/furusato/documents/p16.pdf (viewed on September 13, 2022)
Chiba Prefectural Soil Maintenance Department Port Division “PORT of KISARAZU-Ports Connected to the Future-” https://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/kouwan/news/documents/PORTofKISARAZU2021_P1-12.pdf (Sept. 13, 2022)
Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library “News from Local Room” No. 159 https://www.library.city.chuo.tokyo.jp/images/upload/kyodo_159.pdf (viewed on September 13, 2022)
“Mount Fuji in Museum Materials” http://www.museum.pref.yamanashi.jp/4th_fujisan/02funi/4th_fujisan_02funi_09.htm (viewed September 13, 2022).