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"It's like a god to put a rough rope in giboshi in the middle of the north side of Kyobashi's balustrade and cure it for a headache. At the time of healing, put tea in a tube of blue bamboo and pour it into it again to giboshi." In Nihonbashi, the same goes for the giboshi of Kyobashi. I wish to ask the giboshi of all bridges not only the East capital. Yotsuya's shark bridge and Azabu's kogai bridge are both headaches or pediatric whooping cough. "

The author of "Kawayanagi Edo Sunako" gives a Kyoka of a person called Hinoen in the explanation. 'Hidari rope can be tied to the giboshi of Kyobashi, and there is no cough.'

It seems to be a folklore that when a cough comes out and does not stop, it stops when you tie a "Hidari rope" to Kyobashi. The left rope was adopted from the point of view of asking God. Even if it is a left rope, it seems that instead of twisting it counterclockwise, it is better to twist it with the left rope when twisting the normally twisted rope at the end.

"The idea that the left is higher and the right is lower is seen in various places today, the hand water of the shrine is cleansed from the left, and Kagura steps from the left. You walk from the left when you walk. Bon Odori dances clockwise to welcome the spirits, and the dead's kimonos are worn in front of the left and right. "

Note: Shark ga Bridge (Yotsuya):　The theory was that the coastline was high, seawater entered Hashimoto, and sharks were sometimes seen, and the white horse with eyes was called sameuma, so it became possible to connect with horses. It seems. According to "Edo Sunako", "There is a theory that a monk at Ushigome Gyoganji Temple went to the Mankozuka with a samema, but fell from this bridge and died and called it Samemagabashi. In "Reschool Edo Sunako", there is a theory that it is usually a small stream, but because of the terrain of the valley, the water rises only in rainy weather and a bridge is required, so there is a theory called "Samega Bridge".

Kogai Bridge:　◆It is a bridge with an old history even though it is Kobashi, and is also introduced in the Edo Famous Places.
◆The waterway where the bridge was located was called Koigawa (sometimes called Ryugawa), and in the early Meiji era there was a town called Azabu Koi Kawamachi. Furukawa is famous in Azabu, but before it became a culvert, the Kogai River (now a culvert) was famous. The Kogai River, which joins Furukawa (Shibuya River) near Tengenji Bridge, has water sources in the vicinity of Umedoin Temple in Aoyama 3-chome and the Nezu Museum.

On the head of giboshi there is a woman pouring tea from a bamboo tube. It can be seen that customs such as illustrations in the "Secular Superstition Book" written by a person named Tatsuo Tsubokawa in 1901 were performed without slipping after the Meiji Restoration. "There are still things that are still being carried out today, like Mansei-bashi Bridge, tie the paper line in many ways." By this time, giboshi was made using a twist instead of a rough rope. On the paper twist, some form of request and the name of the prayer were written. Mr. Tsubokawa looked at about 10 or more pieces of paper twisting Mansei Bridge, and found that there were "5-year-old boys", "3-year-olds" and "56-year-old Takematsu". "

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

"At the bridge with a giboshi in Edo city, milk always comes out when watering as shown in the figure." It is probably because I felt that the shape of giboshi was the same as the breast.

[References]

1)　Secular superstition record:　Tatsuo Tsubokawa　

2)　Edo Shinto and Buddha gankake Shigehoki:　Yorozu Jutei Shoji (1814)

3)　Customs Gapo:　Published in the Meiji period