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Question 1. There are many potted plants in the precincts of Teppozu Inari Shrine, which seems to be a town of Minato. There is a cute creature made of pottery hidden there. Which of the following is it?

A. Awhile Dwarf Frog. Rabbit

Answer c

Everyone, please look for it when visiting Tepposu Inari Shrine!

♪1-6-7 Minato, Teppozu Inari Shrine

guardian of children and travelers Shiomi sits on the banks of the Sumida River at Minato 3-chome. The small vermilion hall is surrounded by overflowing flowers and is always clean and clean. By the way, which is the most frequent of the sweets offered to Jizo-sama?

A. Senbei. Potato chips Ame. Steamed bun

A

Minato-ko likes potato chips, so it may only be noticeable! ?

♪3-18-22 Shiomi guardian of children and travelers Minato

Q3. The Meiji period clay pipe was excavated during the fifth excavation survey of Minato 2-chome in 2016. The diameter is large Tokonameyaki, which is too large even if both hands are spread. It is thought that it was used as a well pumping port. This clay pipe is currently being used for a completely different purpose. Which of the following is it?

A. Commemorative of Jay Playground equipment in the park Potted plants in the flower bed. Car stop

Answer c

Valuable cultural properties have become potted plants! The magic of the potted culture of Minato! However, such a relaxed feeling is Minato's favorite, Minato-like.

♪Near 1-8-15 Dokan Minato excavated from Minato 2-chome No. 5 Site

Q4. From the Edo period to the Taisho era, there was a town name called Funamatsucho. Waiting for a ship, this is the center of Edo Minato, which tells the scene where many loaded ships were berthed. Well, where did you say the ship Matsumachi now?

A. Minato Sanchome and Akashicho A. Minato 1-chome and Shinkawa U. Minato 2-chome and Ishikawajima e. Minato 3-chome and Tsukuda

Answer a

It is the name of the town that existed from the Edo period to the Taisho era. By the way, one of the current residences of Shinkawa 2-chome, Mifune Tegami Shogen Mukai was called Shinbune Matsumachi. It's a fashionable street name like Edo kid.

When Meiji period, now Akashicho became a foreign settlement, Minato Irifune Kawai was inhabited by foreigners and opened hotels and grocery stores for foreigners. The bakery run by Chari Hess, located in Shinsakaemachi 5-chome (now Irifune 3-chome), seems to be the birthplace of a bread in Tokyo. What kind of bread is it?

A. French Pani. Anpan u. Cinnamonrole Bread

Answer d

Chari Hess was invited as a chef in Seiyoken, which opened in 1870 under Seijobashi. After the great fire in Ginza, we opened a bakery called Charisha. It is said that the taste of the bread in Chari-sha was unforgettable taste.

♪You can see the area around the foot of the municipal Ninakamae pedestrian bridge where the chari building was located.

Henry Falls, who was famous for his fingerprint research. It is known that the residence No. 18, had a mansion in the corner of the current St. Luke Garden, but shortly after arriving in Tokyo, I stayed at a hotel that improved the old Japanese house in the alley of Minato 1-chome, a relatively rented area. Which of the following is the name of the hotel for foreigners?

A. Hotel Metropolei. Otel de Colonieu. Tsukiji Hotel E. Ed hotel

Answer d

Tsukiji Hotel was also called Yedo Hotel (Ed Hotel), but it is a completely different hotel. In the words of Falls, Ed Hotel was run by "Thompson with a red face." Then move to Reservation No. 17.

♪8-1 Akashi-cho, the birthplace of fingerprint research

The Tsukiji Catholic Church is the oldest Catholic Church in Tokyo, and as one of the few features of the former Tsukiji foreign settlements, it still retains its solemn appearance. It was born in 1871 near a bridge, which is now Minato 1-chome. Which bridge is that?

A. Gunshot bridge i. Mitobashi U. Sakurabashi e. Inari Bridge

Answer d

It was the beginning that Father Marlan of the Paris Foreign Mission Society rented a merchant and opened a language school and became "Inaribashi Church". In 1874, he moved to the current location, No. 36, and in 2011, a Gothic red brick cathedral was built. The current cathedral was built in 1972 and is designed by Father Gyrodias and Onjiro Ishikawa in the Parthenon style of the Greek temple. The motifs of the front pediment tulips and roses are handwritten by plasterers, and are valuable by the craftsmanship of the time.

♪Catholic Tsukiji Church Cathedral 5-26 Akashicho

Question 8. There is a song from Minato Sanchome Town Association. There are up to No. 4, and if you introduce the lyrics of No. 2 of them, `` ♪ The history is old, the ferry and breakwater flow of the gunshot Tsukuda are still old today, the circle of people who have not changed in the past is our pride- '' What is the flavor that follows?

A. Minatomachi (Minatocho) a. Minato Wharf U. Minatosan (Minato-san) d. My third-chome　

Answer c

Lyrics are included in a book called "Minato Sanchome Town Association 30th Anniversary Magazine" published in 1980. The town council club talked about memories of singing in the gymnasium of Akashi Elementary School when he was a child. What kind of song is it, I want to listen to it!

Q9. Walking through the town of Minato, warm lights may come up in the glass door of a small galvanized house, and the sound of the printing press may be heard. Minato, Irifune, and Hatchobori Kawai still have many printing mills and bookbinds. Its history can be traced from events in the Meiji era, but what is it?

A. Many newspaper companies gathered in the brick street in Ginza.

B. The Kaikaikan was located on Tsukuda Island, where writers gathered.

C. The presence of scholars and Confucian scholars in Hatchobori

D. The birthplace of the playwright in Minato 1-chome

Answer a

Newspapers have entered the Ginza Brick Street, which was established in 1873, and have become a base for disseminating information at the forefront of the times. Nearly close, at Tsukiji 1-chome, Tomiji Hirano later established the Tokyo Tsukiji Pressure Works. In nearby Minato and other places, there are many people who work in the newspaper streets of Ginza, and after learning printing techniques, I started running a small printing shop at my own home.

♪At the Kyobashi Bookbinding Hall, which remains in the alley of Minato 3-chome.

Question 10. The playwright born at Minato 1-chome, Minami Hatchobori 3-chome, Kyobashi-ku, at that time, was mainly active in London, and later traveled abroad, died young, so he was called a tragedy playwright. I am. Who of the following has left works such as "Yoshichoki Toils of Yoshitomo", "Kiyohime Waka or Dojo-ji Temple", and "Kanawa".

A. Kayo Yamagishi Torahiko Koori U. Isamu Yoshii E. Mokutaro Kinoshita

A

As a performance in Japan, in 1912, Kiyohime Waka or Dojo-ji Temple was performed at Jiyu Theater in Sadanji Ichikawa and Kaoru Osanai.

♪The alley of Minato 1-chome, where Torahiko Koori was born, can be seen from the Kamejima River.

Thank you very much for your help.

How was it?

Minato kid still doesn't know much.

From now on, I want to learn more about the town of Minato.

Minato kid walks well today!

♪References

`` Chuo-ku Monoshiri Encyclopedia '' Chuo-ku Tourism Association / `` Chuo-ku Ward (Seven) '' Chuo-ku Planning Department Public Relations Section 2007 / `` Chuo Ward Citizen's Cultural Property Guide Kyobashi Edition '' Chuo-ku Board of Education 2005 / Minato 3-chome town association 1980 / Tokyo 1980 / Tokyo 3-chome town association Meiji period prefecture / Tokyo 1 Tokyo 19 Tokyo 3 Tokyo 3 Tokyo 1 3-Shimizu Minato 3-Shimizu / 1 1 3-Shimizu / Tokyo 1 1 1 1 1 3 Tokyo 1 1 3-Shimizu / Tokyo 3-Shimizu / Tokyo 3 Tokyo 3 3 1 3-Shimizu-Shimizu / Minato 3-Shimizu / Tokyo 3 3

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Chuo-ku Tourism Association, correspondents, readers, Chuo FM 84.0, everyone who met in the town, Chuo City Library, Honnomori Chuo Regional Archives, Chuo City Folk Museum, Chuo City Folk Museum Thank you very much to everyone who took care of me when writing a blog.

Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association
No. 200 September 3, 2023