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"It is like God to cure a headache by holding a rough rope in giboshi in the middle of the balustrade of Kyobashi. At the time of healing, put tea in the bottle of green bamboo and pour it out to giboshi again." Even in Nihonbashi, "same as giboshi in Kyobashi. It is not only the eastern capital to pray for the giboshi of all bridges. Both the shark of Yotsuya and the Kogoi Bridge of Azabu are headaches or pertussis in children. "

The author of "Kawayanagi Edo Sunako" gives a Kyoka of a person named Hien in the explanation. "I can tie a rope to the giboshi in Kyobashi."

It seems like a folklore that stops when you tie a "Hidari rope" to Kyobashi when you have a cough and do not stop. The left rope must have been adopted from the viewpoint of asking God. It seems that all the left ropes are not twisted counterclockwise, but should be twisted with the left rope when twisting the normally twisted ropes at the end.

"The idea that the left is higher and the right is lower is seen in various places today, and the water of the shrine is cleaned from the left, and the Kagura takes steps from the left. Even when walking, I step forward from the left. Bon Odori dances counterclockwise to welcome the spirits, and the kimono of the dead can be worn left and right, so it is an example that conscious of left and right. "

Note: Shark is Bridge (Yotsuya):　The theory that the coastline was high, seawater entered Hashimoto, and sharks were sometimes seen, and white horses with eyes were called shameuma, so they could be tied to horses. It seems that According to "Edo Sunako", "There is a theory that a monk at Ushigome Gyoganji Temple went to a man memorial mound in Samema, but fell and died from this bridge and called it Samemagabashi." In "Re-school Edo Sunako", it is usually a small stream, but there is also a theory called "Samegabashi" because the terrain of the valley increases only in rainy weather and requires a bridge.

Kougai Bridge:　◆It is a bridge with an old history while Kobashi, and is also introduced in the "Edo Famous Zoukai".
◆The waterway where the bridge was located was called the Koizumi River (sometimes it was called Ryukawa), and in the early Meiji era, there was also a town called Azabu Kogawa Kawamachi. Furukawa is famous in Azabu, but before it became a culvert, the Kogai River (now a culvert) was famous. The Koizumi River, which joins the Furukawa (Shibuya River) near Tengenji Bridge, has water sources near Umedoin at Aoyama 3-chome and at the Nezu Museum.

giboshi's head is depicted by his wife pouring bamboo tube tea. It can be seen that customs such as illustrations of "Senima superstition" written by a person named Tatsuo Tsubokawa in 1901 were performed without fail even after the Meiji Restoration. "There are still things that are suspended today, like Manseibashi, tie the paper line in many ways," and at this time he used togiboshi instead of a rough rope. The paper twist had some form of request and the name of the prayer. Mr. Tsubokawa looked around a dozen to try to twist Manseibashi paper, and it seems that there were also "5-year-old boys", "3-year-old Matsu", and "56-year-old Takematsu". "

In addition, it seems that there was something called "18-year-old Sato" on one end and "Naga Jiro" on the other, and it is presumed that it was a marriage prayer from the place where both ends were tightly tied.

"When you pour water on a bridge in giboshi city, as shown in the figure, milk always comes out." It is probably because I felt that the shape of giboshi was the same as the breast for milk.

[References]

1)　Tracks:　Tatsuo Tsubokawa　

2)　Edo Shinto-Buddhist wish Kake Treasures:　Shoji Yorozu Jutei (1814)

3)　Customs Art Report:　Published in the Meiji Period